CT320: Network and System Administration

Fall 2019

Schedule

When Lecture Recitation Test / Homework Reading
Week 1

Aug 26–30, 2019

  • Discuss HW0
  • IQ01 Thursday
  • HW0 due 10:00ᴘᴍ Sun Sep 1
  • Ch. 1: Where to Start
  • Ch. 2: Scripting and the Shell, pp. 29–51
Week 2

Sep 2–6, 2019

Bash I
  • Ch. 3: Booting and Shutting Down
  • Ch. 4: Access Control and Rootly Powers
Week 3

Sep 9–13, 2019

Bash II
  • IQ03 Thursday
  • HW1 due 10:00ᴘᴍ Sun Sep 15
  • Ch. 5: Controlling Processes
  • Ch. 6: The Filesystem
Week 4

Sep 16–20, 2019

Disk Full
  • Ch. 9: Periodic Processes
  • Ch. 12: Software Installation & Mgmt, pp. 382–392
Week 5

Sep 23–27, 2019

Partitioning
  • IQ05 Thursday
  • HW2 due 10:00ᴘᴍ Sun Sep 29
  • Ch. 7: Adding New Users
  • Ch. 8: Storage
Week 6

Sep 30 – Oct 4, 2019

Windows Installation
  • Ch. 10: Backups, pp. 292–317
  • Ch. 26: Printing, pp. 1033–1044, 1065–1084
Week 7

Oct 7–11, 2019

Sysadmin & Processes Ch. 11: Syslog and Log Files
Week 8

Oct 14–18, 2019

Storage & Backup
  • Midterm post-mortem
  • Review HW3
  • Discuss HW4
  • IQ08 Thursday
Ch. 2: Scripting and the Shell, pp. 54–65
Week 9

Oct 21–25, 2019

Perl (begin)
  • IQ09 Thursday
  • HW4 due 10:00ᴘᴍ Sun Oct 27
Ch. 14: TCP/IP Networking
Week 10

Oct 28 – Nov 1, 2019

Perl (finish) Ch. 15: Routing
Week 11

Nov 4–8, 2019

Networking
  • IQ11 Tuesday
  • HW5 due 10:00ᴘᴍ Sun Nov 10
You’ve read enough!
Week 12

Nov 11–15, 2019

Packet Sniffing
  • Ch. 17: DNS: The Domain Name System
  • Ch. 21: Network Mgmt & Debug, pp. 879–889
Week 13

Nov 18–22, 2019

SNMP
  • IQ13 Thursday
  • HW6 due 10:00ᴘᴍ Sun Dec 1
  • Ch. 20: Email
  • Ch. 2: Scripting and the Shell, pp. 66–74
Week 13½

Nov 25–29, 2019

Thanksgiving Break!
Week 14

Dec 2–6, 2019

Python Ch. 22: Security
Week 15

Dec 9–13, 2019

nmap
  • IQ15 Thursday
  • HW7 due 10:00ᴘᴍ Sun Dec 15
  • Ch. 22: Security, pp. 926–930 (ssh)
  • Ch. 22: Security, pp. 914–916 (nmap)
Week 16

Wed Dec 18, 2019

Final Exam

Wed 6:20–8:20ᴘᴍ in CSB 315 and CSB 325