Fall 2003 COMP 6520 Sys Admin

1. W 8/20 Introductions, administration tasks Chapter 1

F 8/22 OS system administration resources

2. M 8/25 Policies and Politics Chapter 27

W 8/27 System startup and installation, printers Chapter 2, Chapter 23

F 8/29 Scripting, GUI/X11

3. M 9/1 Holiday

W 9/3 Maintenance and Environment Chapter 24

F 9/5 Rootly Powers Chapter 3

4. M 9/8 Process Management, Unix Chapter 4, Chapter 25

W 9/10 Process Management, W2K, MacOS

F 9/12 File System Basics Chapter 5

5. M 9/15 Unix/Linux/Mac/DOS-NT File Systems

W 9/17 File System Security Basics

F 9/19 User Magagement Chapter 6

6. M 9/22 Unix /Linux/Mac/W2K User Management

W 9/24 User configuration

F 9/26 System devices and installation Chapter 7

7. M 9/29 Device management

W 10/1 Disk management Chapter 8

F 10/3 EXAM 1

8. M 10/6 Periodic Processes Chapter 9

W 10/8 Backup issues Chapter 10

F 10/10 OS Upgrades, checks, backups

9. M 10/13 OS restoration

W 10/15 Linux, Unix, MacOS upgrades

F 10/17 System logging Chapter 11

10. M 10/20 Software drivers Chapter 12

W 10/22 configuration, patches, and kernels

F 10/24 adding device drivers

11. M 10/27 Network Communication Chapter 13

W 10/29 Modems: ISDN, Cable, DSL ; Ethernet

F 10/31 TCP/IP protocol, configuration Chapter 14

12. M 11/3 TCP/IP protocol, ipv6 Chapter 17

W 11/5 Network Configuration Chapter 20

F 11/7 NFS& cooperations Chapter 18,Chapter 26

13. M 11/10 Bridging and Routing Chapter 14

W 11/12 Routing daemons

F 11/14 Network hardware Chapter 15

14. M 11/17 Network design

W 11/19 Network Security Chapter 21

F 11/21 EXAM 2

Project Demonstrations and Presentations:

15. M 12/1 Services: DNS, Web hosting Chapter 16,Chapter 22

W 12/3 Mail, Printing, File Transfer, Time Chapter 19,Chapter 20

F 12/5

16. M 12/8

W 12/10