IS80662: Systems and Services Management

 The purpose  of this course is to introduce to you the art of maintenance and deployment of computer systems in production environments which requires you an significant effort. This course will help you to dive deep and enhance your experience into operational principles that apply across technologies. This course is intended for undergraduate students and will provide the fundamentals of system administration under Linux, with emphasis on principles that apply to all environments.

Objectives

• Understand the role and responsibilities of a system administrator
• Configure the Linux operating system
• Describe the system boot process
• Setup and manage user accounts and groups
• Manage the resources and security of a computer running Linux
• Make effective use of Unix utilities, and scripting languages
• Configure and manage simple network services on a Linux system
• Develop an appreciation of the documentation available as part of an installed Unix/Linux system

Expected Work: Homework and small projects.

Textbooks

Required: UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Ed., by Nemeth, Snyder, Hein and Whaley (Prentice Hall, 2010) and The Practice of Cloud System Administration, by Limoncelli, Chalup, and Hogan (Addison-Wesley, 2015).
Optional: The Practice of System and Network Administration, 2nd Ed., by Limoncelli, Hogan, and Chalup (Addison Wesley, 2007).