OPS335 Weekly Schedule

The course schedule, labs, and links are subject to change.
Check with your professor for details and changes specific to your section.

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Week	Objectives and Tasks	Assigned Reading	Labs / Exercises
Week 1 07 Sep - 11 Sep	Introduction to OPS335 outline, policies, assignments, labs, midterm test, quizzes, exam, email Fedora Project Overview	Chapter One - Where to Start Fedora 22 Installation Guide Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 0 System Installation
Week 2 14 Sep - 18 Sep	Basic Networking ifconfig, aliasing, route, iptables, ping, configuring a gateway, ip forwarding, masquerading, interface aliasing Assignment 1 Part 1 Released	Chapter 14 - TCP/IP Networking Fedora Systemd Documentation DNF Guide	Lab 1 Configuring a Service
Week 3 21 Sep - 25 Sep	Packet Filtering iptables	Chapter 22 - Security Firewalld documentation Firewalld rich rules	Lab 2 Packet Filtering
Week 4 28 Sep - 02 Oct	DNS nslookup, dig, host, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/named.conf Assignment 1 Part 1 Due Assignment 1 Part 2 Released BIND and DNS notes	Chapter 17 - DNS: The Domain Name System	Lab 3 DNS Setup
Week 5 05 Oct - 09 Oct	Backup/Restore tar, cpio, dump/restore, wget, netcat, ssh, scp, rsync, cron, at	Chapter 10 - Backups	Lab 4 Automating Backups
Week 6 12 Oct - 16 Oct	Test #1. No Class on 12 October.
Week 7 19 Oct - 23 Oct	Mail postfix, smtp, imap, pop, mailx Assignment 1 Part 2 due	Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail	Lab 5 Postfix Mail Configuration
Study Week
Week 8 02 Nov - 06 Nov	Web Servers Apache installation and configuration	Chapter 23 - Web Hosting	Lab 6 Apache Install/Config
Week 9 09 Nov - 13 Nov	SAMBA smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs) smb.conf, testparm smbpasswd, pdbedit getsebool, setsebool	Chapter 30 - Cooperating with Windows	Lab 7 Samba Servers and Clients
Week 10 16 Nov - 20 Nov	NFS with Automount exportfs, showmount, /etc/exports,autofs, auto.master Assignment 2 Released	Chapter 18 - The Network File System	Lab 8 NFS Setup
Week 11 23 Nov - 27 Nov	NIS ypserv, ypbind, ypcat	Chapter 19 - Sharing System Files	Lab 9 NIS Configuration
Week 12 30 Nov - 04 Dec	FTP Server	vsftpd (ftp server) project web site /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf configuration file vsftpd FAQ Tutorial on ftp commands	Lab 10 VSFTP Server Setup
Week 13 07 Dec - 09 Dec	Exam Review Assignment 2 Due		Outstanding Labs
Exam Week