Textbook

The teacher for this course is Erik Hjelmås. All lecture notes, theory exercises and lab exercises are downloadable here, except the proposed solutions to the exercises (these files are located in Fronter which requires a username/password). If you are an external teacher who would like a copy of all the material in this course, please just contact me by email.

Theme Week Topic

Readings (in addition to the corresponding chapters in the
Wikipedia book and the hand-outs)

Configure, deploy
and maintain
standalone hosts

HAND-OUT 1

34

Introduction and Basic Host Configuration
(cli config/troubleshooting skills)

Vi Reference Card
35 Basic Host Configuration
(services)
36 Software Package Management
(dpkg,msi)
Samuel & Cappos
37 Automatic Installations
(pxe,tftp,dhcp)
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38 Configuration Management: Standalone Hosts
(cfengine, local group policy)
Reference Manual
Basic infrastructures

 

39

Host Domains and Infrastructure Basics
(timesync,dns,ad)

Traugott&Huddleston
40

Configuration Management: Networked Hosts
(ad,group policy,cfengine)

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41 User Management: Identities and Authentication
(ldap,kerberos,AD/gpo,cfengine)
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42 Mid-term Exam (Oct. 16th 0900-1100) + Project intro
template.pdf, template.tex, template.bib

(Mid-term exam is based on all material included so far
in the courseand composed of ca 40% theory questions,
ca 40% cfengine scriptingand ca 20% lab questions)

Team work
in-depth technology
43 Project 
(deadline SLA 23:59 Oct 21st)
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44
9-12
Project
(deadline draft 23:59 Oct 28th)
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45 Project Presentations (deadline final report 23:59 Nov 4th)
Monitoring
(nagios,cfengine)
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Core services

 

46
9-12
File Service
(cifs,kerberos,ad/gpo,cfengine)
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47 Guest lecture -
48
9-12
Email Service
(smtp,imap,exchange,ad/gpo,cfengine)
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49 Final Exam
(Dec. 6th 0900-1100)
(Final exam is based on all material included in the course
and composed of ca 40% theory questions, ca 40% cfengine
scripting and ca 20% lab questions)