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System Administration
Academic year 2014/15, semester S2
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Syllabus
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Identifier
Available to
Responsible
Student workload
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ADS
IE, TR, TS
Marcel Graf
80 hours, corresponding to 2.67 ECTS credits
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| Objectives |
By the end of this teaching unit the student will be able to:
- perform simple administration tasks on Windows and Linux;
- use the command line;
- develop scripts for automating tasks;
- explain and apply system administration best practices.
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| Prerequisites |
The student must be familiar with and master the following concepts:
- Bases of procedural programming
- Fundamental concepts of operating systems, networking and information security.
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| Content |
Lectures |
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Administration of software and services:
- Installation and configuration of software,
- Starting and stopping of services,
- Package management.
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Administration of user accounts and access control:
- Accounts and groups,
- Access rights and policies,
- Authentication and passwords,
- Centralized management of a pool of machines.
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Shell commands and introduction to scripting:
- Basic commands,
- Variables,
- Input/output,
- Control structures.
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Best practices
- Security,
- Backup,
- Monitoring.
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Labs |
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Software and service management: Linux package managers and
Windows server manager
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4 |
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Administration of user accounts and access control:
creation, modification and removal of accounts and groups
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4 |
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Centralized management: Active Directory and domains
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4 |
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Linux command line basics
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4 |
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Scripting with the Bash shell
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8 |
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Scripting with Windows PowerShell
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8 |
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