Welcome to
CIS 527

Enterprise Systems Administration

Instructor: Russell Feldhausen

• Office: 2214 Engineering Hall
• Email: russfeld AT ksu DOT edu
• Office Phone: (785) 532-7929
• Mobile Phone: (785) 292-3121 (Google Voice)
• Office Hours: MWF 9:00 - 10:00 am

Technical Advisor:

• Seth Galitzer - sgsax AT ksu DOT edu

Teaching Assistants:

• Alex Todd - atodd AT ksu DOT edu
• Jacob Dokos - jsdokos AT ksu DOT edu

Icebreaker Activity

1. Get into groups of 3 - 5
2. Find at least 5 non-obvious things you all have in common
3. Come up with 2-3 questions to ask the instructor about himself (AMAA)
4. Write it down, nominate a speaker

Syllabus: Read these topics later

• Course Objectives
• Major Course Topics
• Academic Honesty
• Students with Disabilities
• Expectations for Classroom Conduct
• Campus Safety

Course Structure:

• 7 lab assignments (biweekly)
• 15 quizzes (weekly)
• 5-6 lectures of material per lab assignment
• Final Presentation at end of semester
• In-class grading on due dates

Grading:

• 70% Lab Assignments (10% ea.)
• 15% Quizzes (1% ea.)
• 15% Final Presentation
• Some extra credit available
  (Open House, Programming Contest, etc.)

Letter Grades:

• 90% - 100% - A
• 80% - 89.99% - B
• 70% - 79.99% - C
• 60% - 69.99% - D
• 00% - 59.99% - F

My philosophy: do your work completely, turn it in on time, and you should have no issues getting a 'B'.

Late work: 10% of the possible points will be deducted for each day it is late.
Make arrangements with the instructor if extenuating circumstances arise.

(He really is a nice guy and will help you out if needed!)

Required Textbooks: NONE!

Recommended Resources:

• Subscription to Safari Books Online. It should cost around $20 per month ($100 for the semester).
• 128GB+ portable storage device
• Computer that can run VMWare Fusion/Workstation & up to 4 VMs.

Recommended Reading:
“The Practice of System and Network Administration” by Thomas Limoncelli, Christina Hogan and Strata Chalup. ISBN 0321492668

Not available on Safari, but a good read for students interested in the field as a career.

Subject to Change
This is the 4th semester of this class
Things may change quickly

Image Credit: Vantaj on DeviantArt

Lab 1 - Secure Workstations

• OS Installation & Configuration
• User Management & Permissions
• Services & Software
• Security

CIS 225 Review

Lab 2 - Configuration Management

• Configuration Management
• Puppet Quickstart
• Puppet Modules
• Working with Puppet

Lab 1 redone using Puppet

Lab 3 - Core Networking Services

• Networking Overview
• DHCP & DNS
• Email, HTTP, SNMP & More
• Wireshark

CIS 525 Material with Sysadmin Twist

Lab 4 - Directory Services & SSO

• Directory Services Overview
• Windows Domains
• Linux Networking
• Interoperability

Single Sign-on Infrastructures - Hardest Lab!

Lab 5 - The Cloud

• The Cloud Overview
• Configuring the Cloud
• Networking the Cloud
• Apps in the Cloud

Modern Sysadmin Without Hardware

Lab 6 - Application Servers

• Application Servers Overview
• File Servers
• LAMP - Apache
• Windows - IIS

Backbone of Company Networks

Lab 7 - Backups & Monitoring

• Backups
• System Monitoring
• HPC
• ITIL

99.99999% Uptime

Final Presentation

• Demonstrate your Knowledge of Enterprise System Administration
• Communicate Technical Information
• Perform Independent Study & Research
• Details TBA Later in Semester

Quiz 1

1. Three things you would like to learn in this class


2. Two things you have already done as a sysadmin that you are proud of