SYA810

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SYA810 - System Administration II

Professor

SYA810 is taught by User:Chris Tyler (Winter 2009)

Weekly Outline

See the Winter 2009 SYA810 Weekly Schedule for specific dates and topics.

Subject Description

This subject is a continuation of SYA710. Students will continue their exploration of various Linux technologies. Particular attention will be paid to server-class system configuration. Where possible, Fedora Core will be the Linux distribution of choice in this course

Credit Status

1 credit in the LUX program.

Prerequisites

SYA710

Specific Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:

  • Configure, use, and manage Logical Volume Management
  • Configure, use, and manage RAID arrays
  • Configure, use, and manage USB devices
  • Understand the basic principles of Storage Area Networks
  • Configure, use, and manage iSCSI targets and initiators
  • Understand Linux memory management
  • Monitor and improve system performance
  • Create and use Linux software installation packages (RPMs)
  • Design and implement effective backup and recovery strategies
  • Configure, use, and manage Virtual Machines (using Xen, KVM, or other technologies)

Topic Outline:

  • General Device Principles - 5%
    • Device nodes
    • Udev
    • Psudeo-filesystems: sysfs, procfs, ptsfs, usbdevfs
    • PCI, PCIE, HotPlug PCI, MiniPCI, PC Card/PCMCIA devices
  • Advanced Disk Block Devices - 10%
    • Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
    • Logical Volume Management (LVM)
  • Package Management - 20%
    • Using RPMs
    • Creating RPMs
    • Using repositories
  • System Monitoring and Backup - 15%
    • Backup and recovery strategies
    • Backup media selection
    • Backup cycles
    • syslog, dmesg
    • cron, batch
    • cpio, tar, pax
    • vmstat, sar, free, w/uptime
    • strace
  • Memory and Performance Management - 10%
    • Pages
    • Demand loading
    • Memory mapping
    • No-execute (NX/XD) and ExecShield
    • Shared object library linking
    • Copy-on-write
    • Swap
  • Storage Area Networks - 10%
    • Interconnect technologies (SCSI, iSCSI, fc, ib)
    • Global Filesystem (GFS)
  • USB - 10%
    • Physical connections
    • Power
    • Logical structure
    • Descriptors
    • Utilities
    • USB storage using SCSI CCS
  • Virtualization - 20%
    • Linux virtualization technologies on the x86 platform (Xen, KVM)
    • VM management
    • VM image preparation

Modes Of Instruction

2 hours interactive lecture per week, and 2 hours lab time per week

Prescribed Text

  • Fedora Linux by Chris Tyler; ISBN 0-596-52682-2 published by O'Reilly & Associates

Reference Material

  • Course Wiki

Promotion Policy

To obtain a credit in this subject, a student must:

  • Achieve a grade of 55% or better on the final exam
  • Satisfactorily complete all assignments
  • Achieve a weighted average of 55% or better for the tests and final exam
  • Achieve a grade of 55% or better on the overall course

Modes of Evaluation

  • 20% Group Project
  • 15% Lab Work (labs, quizzes, and assignments)
  • 25% One Midterm Test
  • 40% Final Exam