Description

Theory
1

Theory/Practice
1

Laboratory
2

Instructors

Pedro Pinto

Contents

Theoretical:
1. Systems Administration (10%)
a. Administrator Roles. Datacenters. hardware and storage virtualization (SAN).

2. Infrastructure Administration - Business Continuity (25%)
a. Business Continuity and Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Disaster Recovery and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).

3. Safety techniques and procedures (35%)
a. Computer security. Authentication and authorization (AAA systems). Kerberos. GSS-API. SASL. TLS. Network security. Firewall.

4. Quality of Service (QoS) (20%)
a. Traffic management techniques. Quality of Service (QoS).

5. DevOps (10%)

Practical/laboratory classes:
1. Linux and Windows Server Administration (60%)
a. User and group management (NSS, PAM, AD), network services, and administrative tools. Windows domain administration. Linux / Windows integration.

2. BCP, DRP, NLB, Clustering (20%)

3. Systems maintenance (20%)

Learning Outcomes

This subject provides solid theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the management and infrastructure of complex and heterogeneous information technology systems, using the most advanced technologies in a data center.

By the end of this course, the student must be able to (CO: Course Objectives; BL = Bloom level):

CO1. Define and analyze operational requirements for a high availability datacenter (BL: 1 and 4)

CO2. Plan, install and manage a data center (CD) using server and storage virtualization and complying with operational requirements (BL: 3)

CO3. Create disaster recovery and disaster mitigation plans (BL: 4)

CO4. Install servers and master their administration (centralized registration of users and groups, iptables and scripting for automated management) (BL: 3, 4 and 5)

CO5. Integrate Linux and Windows systems by configuring remoting and authentication services (BL: 5)

CO6. Write individual or group reports (BL: 1)

CO7. Search and compare published papers on best practices in system administration (BL: 1 and 2)