System administration II (4AP)

People

• Ilja
• Meelis
• Marti
• Kostja
• <your name here>

Preliminaries & Goals

• The student is assumed to be familiar with the following materials:
  • System administration I
• In other words, the student is assumed to have the following:
  • Theoretical knowledge:
    • ?
  • Skills:
    • ?
• This course will add to that:
  • Theoretical knowledge:
    • ?
  • Skills:
    • ?

Topics [unsystematic order]

• basics: pxe, kickstart, dhcp, networking (quick reminder), smtp
• Cluster management software (ROCKS, OSCAR, Quattor, Windows?)
• Monitoring (Ganglia, Nagios)
• Log processing (???)
• SLAs and SLA enforcement
• advanced scripting (bash, python)
• network visualization (dot, graphviz, ...)
• logging configuration (log rotation)
• IDS, Honeypot
• ssh configuration
• kerberos 4/5, NIS
• virtualization (XEN, vmware, ???)
• ?? Solaris administration ??
• Certification
• Single-sign-on
• Remote management (LOM, serial console)
• rpm/deb package creation
• *nix's - BSD, Linux, Solaris
• cloud - opennebula, eucalyptus, vmware infrastructure, citrix xenserver

Practical

• XEN, XenServer, paravirtualization vs full virtualization
• Xen networking (various approaches)
• VmWare
• Writing 2-3 Ganglia non-trivial metrics
• Writing Nagios plugin
• ??log processing??, network visualization
• complex logging configuration, ...?
• installation of ROCKS cluster + eucalyptus
• IDS - writing own rules
• kerberos 4/5 ?
• Solaris ZFS

Home work

• ROCKS roll creation
• ??

Use cases

• XEN (EEnet)
• Xen/VmWare (NICPB)
• ... ?

Links & Resources

• http://research.iu.hio.no/