Network and System Administration(NSA) Syllabus

Course Description: The course covers different concepts of network and system administration including subjects ranging from initial installation of OS to day-to-day administrative tasks such as Network and Server Configurations, management of user accounts and disk space, and even imparting the trouble-shooting skills future system administrators will need to cope with unexpected behavior.

Course Objectives: The main objective of this course is to provide knowledge of different concepts of network and system administration, configuration, and management. 

1. Networking Overview

teaching hours: 4 hrs

1.1 History

1.2 Protocol Standards

1.3 Reference Model (OSI, TCP/IP)

1.4 Windows and Linux Networking Basics

1.5 Switching and Routing basics

2. Server Administration Basics

teaching hours: 6 hrs

2.1 Server and Client Installation

2.2 Boot Process and Startup Services:Xinetd/Inetd

2.3 Managing accounts: users, groups and other privileges

2.4 File Systems and Quota Management

2.5 Job Scheduling with cron, crontab, anacron and system log analysis

2.6 Process controlling and management

2.7 Online Server upgrade/update process

2.8 Administering Database Server (MySQL)

3. Network Configuration Basics

teaching hours: 4 hrs

3.1 IPv4 and IPv6 addressing

3.2 Network Interface Configuration

3.3 Diagnosing Network startup issues

3.4 Linux and Windows Firewall configuration

3.5 Network troubleshooting commands

4. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

teaching hours: 4 hrs

4.1 DHCP Principle

4.2 DHCP Server Configuration

4.3 DHCP Options, Scope, Reservation and Relaying

4.4 DHCP Troubleshooting

5. Name Server and Configuration

teaching hours: 6 hrs

5.1 DNS principles and Operations

5.2 Basic Name Server and Client Configuration

5.3 Caching Only name server

5.4 Primary and Slave Name Server

5.5 DNS Zone Transfers

5.6 DNS Dynamic Updates

5.7 DNS Delegation

5.8 DNS Server Security

5.9 Troubleshooting

6. Web and Proxy Server Configuration

teaching hours: 6 hrs

6.1 HTTP Server Configuration Basics

6.2 Virtual Hosting

6.3 HTTP Caching

6.4 Proxy Caching Server Configuration

6.5 Proxy ACL

6.6 Proxy-Authentication Mechanisms

6.7 Troubleshooting

7. FTP, File and Print Server

teaching hours: 5 hrs

7.1 General Samba Configuration

7.2 SAMBA SWAT

7.3 NFS and NFS Client Configuration

7.4 CUPS configuration basics

7.5 FTP Principles

7.6 Anonymous FTP Server

7.7 Troubleshooting

8. Mail Server basics

teaching hours: 6 hrs

8.1 SMTP, POP and IMAP principles

8.2 SMTP Relaying Principles

8.3 Mail Domain Administration

8.4 Basic Mail Server Configuration (Sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim..)

8.5 SPAM control and Filtering

8.6 Troubleshooting

9. Remote Administration and Management

teaching hours: 4 hrs

9.1 Configuration

9.2 Webmin/usermin

9.3 Team Viewer

9.4 Telnet

9.5 SSH

9.6 SCP, Rsync

The laboratory work includes all the features mentioned in the course.

Samples:

1. Server/Client Installation over VMware Environment

2. Packet Analysis by using TCPDUMP and WIRESHARK 149

3. Network Practice with Packet Tracer

4. System Administration: User/Group management, File System Management ….

5. Network Configuration: Start/Stop network Service, network interface configuration

6. Firewall Configuration

7. DNS and DHCP Configuration and Troubleshooting

8. Web and Proxy Server Configuration and Troubleshooting

9. Basic Mail Server Configuration and Troubleshooting

10. SAMBA, NFS, CUPS and FTP configuration and Troubleshooting

11. SDN controller installation and client network implementation (OpenDaylight)

12. Network topology programming with Mininet and visualization