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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;background-color:#f0f0f5;">Week</td>
 
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;background-color:#f0f0f5;">Objectives and Tasks</td>
 
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  <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;background-color:#f0f0f5;">Reference</td>
 
 
   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;background-color:#f0f0f5;">Labs</td>
 
   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;background-color:#f0f0f5;">Labs</td>
 
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 1:'''<br>10 jan - 14 jan<br></td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 1:'''<br>9 Jan - 13 Jan
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Introduction to OPS335:'''<ul><li>Outline, policies</li><li>Assignments, labs, evaluation, email</li><li>Preparation for OPS335 labs</li></ul></td>
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  <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Reference:'''<ul><li>[https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks#head-4c9ee55a5c9dc051bd32e795b46a3856e41a0335 Centos7 Install Tips]</li><li>[[OPS335 Resources]]</li></ul></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Course introduction'''<ul>
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   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Installation_Lab Prep for Labs]</td>
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    <li>About the course</li>
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    <li>Review of prerequisite skills from OSL640 and OSL740</li>
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    <li>AWS account requirements and account setup</li>
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    <li>Your workstation setup</li>
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<td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OSL840_Installation_Lab Prep for Labs]</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 2:'''<br>17 jan - 21 jan</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 2:'''<br>16 Jan - 20 Jan<br></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Basic Networking &amp; Backups:'''<ul><li>ifconfig & route vs ip; resolv.conf, hostnamectl</li><li>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/</li><li>Network connection troubleshooting</li><li>SSH & SSH Keys</li><li>rsync & cron</li></ul></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''First VM in the cloud'''<ul>
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  <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Reference:'''<ul><li>[https://www.tty1.net/blog/2010/ifconfig-ip-comparison_en.html ip vs ifconfig]</li><li>[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS235_Lab_7 OPS235 - Lab7]</li><li>[https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories-on-a-vps rsync Howto]</li><li>[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto Cron HowTo]</li></ul></td>
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    <li>AWS cost monitoring</li>
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   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_1 Lab 1: Network/Backup]</td>
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    <li>Basic security on a public-facing server: users, passwords, login requirements, SSH keys, lock-out prevention</li>
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    <li>AWS networking, static IPs</li>
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    <li>Deploying a pre-built VM on AWS</li>
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<td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OSL840_Lab1 Lab 1]</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 3:'''<br>24 jan - 28 jan</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 3:'''<br>23 Jan - 27 Jan<br></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Packet Filtering Using iptables:'''<ul><li>What is Packet Filtering</li><li>iptables Basics<br>(Tables, Chains, Targets)</li><li>iptables Commands &amp; Options</li><li>iptables Command Examples</li><li>Saving iptables Settings</li></ul></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''AWS networking, iptables'''<ul>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Reference:'''<ul><li>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iptables#Overview Overview]</li><li>[https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables CentOS Wiki] </li></ul></td>
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    <li>The purpose of a firewall on a server on the internet</li>
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   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_2 Lab 2a:<br>Packet Filtering Using iptables]</td>
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    <li>AWS Security Groups and iptables</li>
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    <li>iptables fundamentals</li>
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    <li>iptables setup & troubleshooting</li>
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    <li>Port forwarding</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 4:'''<br>31 jan - 4 feb</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 4:'''<br>30 Jan - 03 Feb<br></td>
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  <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Network Address Translation /<br>iptables Best Practices'''<ul><li>Network Address Translation<br>(NAT Table - iptables)</li><li>Debugging firewall problems:<ul><li> Troubleshooting Procedures</li><li>Troubleshooting Tools</li><li>Troubleshooting Exercises</li></ul></li></ul></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Web server'''<ul>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Reference:'''<ul><li>[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_1#Linux_Network_Connection_Configuration_Troubleshooting Test Network Connectivity]<br>(From Lab1)</li></ul></td>  <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_2b Lab 2b:<br>Additional iptables Troubleshooting]</td>
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    <li>Apache web server configuration</li>
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    <li>Web server storage, configuration, LVM</li>
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  <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 5:'''<br>7 feb - 11 feb</td>
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    <li>Simple PHP websites</li>
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  <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Domain Name System (DNS):'''<ul><li>Address resolution mechanism (zone definitions)</li><li>DNS server setup</li><li>Querying Name Servers</li><li>Reverse DNS lookups</li></ul>'''Performing DNS Queries'''<ul><li>SOA, MX, TXT records</li><li>Coordinating multiple servers</li><br><li>'''[[OPS335_-_Assignment_1_(Part_1) | OPS335 - Assignment 1 (Part 1)]]'''</li></ul></td>
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    <li>Public server without public ip</li>
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  <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Reference:'''<ul><li>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System#Address_resolution_mechanism Address resolution mechanism]</li><li>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup Reverse DNS lookups]</li></ul></td>
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    <li>HTTP vs HTTPS</li>
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   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_3 Lab 3: DNS]</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 6:'''<br>14 feb - 18 feb</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 5:'''<br>06 Feb- 10 Feb<br></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Mail Servers - SMTP'''<ul><li>Mail Server Elements (MSA/MTA, MUA, MDA, MS, AA, SMTP)</li><li>Install and using mailx application (MUA)</li><li>Analyze Email Message Headers</li><li>Setup Postfix Server (no encryption)</li><li>Sending Email from VM to Seneca College Mail Account</li><li>Troubleshooting</li></ul></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Databases'''<ul>
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  <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Reference:'''<ul><li>[http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/12/01/how-to-send-email-from-the-linux-command-line/ Sending Messages with mail Command]</li><li>[http://www.johnkerl.org/doc/mail-how-to.html#prompt_commands Read Email Message with mail Command]</li><li>[https://support.google.com/mail/answer/29436?hl=en Reading Full Email Headers]</li></ul></td>
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    <li>RDBMS fundamentals</li>
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   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_4 Lab 4a:<br>Simple Mail Server Setup]</td></tr>
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    <li>MariaDB on AWS</li>
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    <li>Practice with MariaDB</li>
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    <li>Web server + database example: NextCloud</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 7:'''<br>21 feb - 25 feb<br>(Monday is a holiday)</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 6:'''<br>13 Feb - 17 Feb<br></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Evaluation / Review:'''<ul><li>'''[[OPS335_-_Assignment_1_(Part_2) | OPS335 - Assignment 1 (Part 2)]]'''</li><li>Written Midterm Test</li></ul></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Assignment 1'''<ul>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">&nbsp;</td>
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    <li>Creating/using AMIs</li>
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    <li>Automatic synchronisation using rsync, ssh keys, & cron</li>
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    <li>Simple load balancing using iptables</li>
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    <li>Really simple python scripting</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;background-color:#f0f0f5;">'''Study Week:'''<br>28 feb - 4 mar</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 7:'''<br><br>20 Feb - 24 Feb<br>
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   <td  colspan="3" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;background-color:#f0f0f5;">&nbsp;</td>
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(Feb 20 Family Day)</td>
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    <li>Guided self-evaluation (online)</li>
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    <li>Presentation (in-class)</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 8:'''<br>7 mar - 11 mar</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;background-color:#f0f0f5;">'''Study Week:'''<br>27 Feb - 03 Mar</td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Using a Centralized Message Store (IMAP)'''<ul><li>Specifying Domains for Received Email (MTA)</li><li>Installing &amp; Configuring MDA/LDA</li><li>Send &amp; Verify Receiving Mail on VMs</li><li>Troubleshooting</li></ul></td>
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  <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Resources:'''<ul><li>[http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview common mail server terms]</li><li>[http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html Postfix man page]</li><li>[https://workaround.org/ispmail/wheezy/setting-up-dovecot Configuring Dovecot]</ul></td>
 
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 9:'''<br>14 mar - 18 mar</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 8:'''<br>06 Mar - 10 Mar</td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''File Server (Samba):'''<ul><li>smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs)</li><li>smb.conf, testparm, smbpasswd, pdbedit</li><li>getsebool, setsebool</li></ul></td>
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    <li>DNS overview</li>
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   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_5 Lab 5: Samba Server]</td>
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    <li>Register a domain name</li>
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    <li>Set up A, CNAME, TXT records</li>
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    <li>Set up Let's Encrypt</li>
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    <li>Modify Apache to use HTTPS</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 10:'''<br>21 mar - 25 mar</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 9:'''<br>13 Mar - 17 Mar</td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Web Server (Apache)''':<ul><li>LAMP stack installation and configuration</li></ul></td>
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  <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Resources:'''<ul><li>[http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp PHP Tutorial]</li><li>[http://www.w3schools.com/sql/ MySQL / SQL Language Resources]</li></ul></td>
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    <li>Email overview</li>
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   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_6 Lab 6: Web Server]</td>
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    <li>MX records</li>
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    <li>Third AWS VM: email</li>
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    <li>Basic Postfix setup</li>
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    <li>Delivery using dovecot-lda to Maildir</li>
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    <li>Email server security: open relays, port access</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 11:'''<br>28 mar - 1 apr</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 10:'''<br>20 Mar - 24 Mar<br></td>
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<td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Webmail: Encrypted connections'''<ul><li>WebMail installation and configuration</li><li>Setting Up a Self-Serve Certificate</li><li>Configuring Postfix (VM2) for Encryption (TLS)</li><li>Setting up Encryption with Thunderbird MUA</li><li>Setting Up Dovecot MDA/LDA for Encryption (SSL)</li></ul></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Resources:'''<ul><li>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security TLS, SSL Definition]</li><li>[https://www.e-rave.nl/create-a-self-signed-ssl-key-for-postfix Create a self signed SSL key for Postfix]</li><li>[http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration Dovecot SSL configuration]</li> </ul></td>
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    <li>Set up Thunderbird for your domain</li>
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<td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;"> <br>[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_7 Lab 7: Encrypted connections and webmail]</td>
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    <li>Add encryption and authentication support to Postfix</li>
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    <li>Set up Dovecot with SSL</li>
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    <li>Set up Thunderbird for myseneca</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 12:'''<br>4 apr - 8 apr</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 11:'''<br>27 Mar - 31 Mar<br></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''OpenLDAP:'''<ul><li>LDAP Overview</li><li>Client setup</li><li>Adding users</li></ul></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Proper Cloud data storage'''<ul>
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  <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Online Resources:'''<ul><li>[https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/ OpenLDAP Administration Guide]</li><li>[https://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/centos-how-tos/step-step-openldap-server-configuration-centos-7-rhel-7.html CentOS server & client setup guide]</li></ul></td>
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    <li>Storage overview on AWS</li>
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   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;font-weight:bold;">[https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS335_Lab_8 Lab 8: OpenLDAP]</td>
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    <li>RDS</li>
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    <li>EFS</li>
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    <li>S3</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 13:'''<br>11 apr - 15 apr<br>(Friday is a holiday)</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 12:'''<br>03 Apr - 07 Apr<br></td>
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   <td  colspan="3" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Evaluation / Review:'''<ul><li>'''[[OPS335_-_Assignment_2 | OPS335 - Assignment 2]]'''</li><li>Exam Review</li></ul></td>
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Automatic Deployment and Configuration Management (no lab)'''<ul>
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    <li>What we did wrong in this course</li>
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    <li>Automatic, demand-based deployment of VMs</li>
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    <li>Automatically configuring new VMs</li>
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    <li>Containers</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;background-color:#f0f0f5;">'''Week 14 (3 days):'''<br>18 apr - 22 apr</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 13:'''<br>10 Apr - 14 Apr</td>
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   <td  colspan="3" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;background-color:#f0f0f5;">'''Evaluation / Review:'''<ul><li>Final Exam</li></ul></td>
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    <li>Roundcube Webmail</li>
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    <li>Overview of skills gained</li>
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  <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 14:'''<br>17 Apr - 21 Apr<br></td>
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    <li>Guided self-evaluation (online)</li>
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    <li>Presentation (in-class)</li>
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Latest revision as of 20:13, 4 August 2023

Note: Each professor will indicate the due dates for labs, tests and assignments for their sections. This schedule is a general guideline for week-by-week content.
Week Objectives and Tasks Labs
Week 1:
9 Jan - 13 Jan
Course introduction
  • About the course
  • Review of prerequisite skills from OSL640 and OSL740
  • AWS account requirements and account setup
  • Your workstation setup
 Prep for Labs
Week 2:
16 Jan - 20 Jan
 First VM in the cloud
  • AWS cost monitoring
  • Basic security on a public-facing server: users, passwords, login requirements, SSH keys, lock-out prevention
  • AWS networking, static IPs
  • Deploying a pre-built VM on AWS
 Lab 1
Week 3:
23 Jan - 27 Jan
 AWS networking, iptables
  • The purpose of a firewall on a server on the internet
  • AWS Security Groups and iptables
  • iptables fundamentals
  • iptables setup & troubleshooting
  • Port forwarding
Week 4:
30 Jan - 03 Feb
 Web server
  • Apache web server configuration
  • Web server storage, configuration, LVM
  • Simple PHP websites
  • Public server without public ip
  • HTTP vs HTTPS
Week 5:
06 Feb- 10 Feb
 Databases
  • RDBMS fundamentals
  • MariaDB on AWS
  • Practice with MariaDB
  • Web server + database example: NextCloud
Week 6:
13 Feb - 17 Feb
 Assignment 1
  • Creating/using AMIs
  • Automatic synchronisation using rsync, ssh keys, & cron
  • Simple load balancing using iptables
  • Really simple python scripting
Week 7:

20 Feb - 24 Feb
(Feb 20 Family Day)		 Evaluation
  • Guided self-evaluation (online)
  • Presentation (in-class)
Study Week:
27 Feb - 03 Mar
Week 8:
06 Mar - 10 Mar		 DNS
  • DNS overview
  • Register a domain name
  • Set up A, CNAME, TXT records
  • Set up Let's Encrypt
  • Modify Apache to use HTTPS
Week 9:
13 Mar - 17 Mar		 Simple email server
  • Email overview
  • MX records
  • Third AWS VM: email
  • Basic Postfix setup
  • Delivery using dovecot-lda to Maildir
  • Email server security: open relays, port access
Week 10:
20 Mar - 24 Mar
 IMAP server
  • Set up Thunderbird for your domain
  • Add encryption and authentication support to Postfix
  • Set up Dovecot with SSL
  • Set up Thunderbird for myseneca
Week 11:
27 Mar - 31 Mar
 Proper Cloud data storage
  • Storage overview on AWS
  • EBS
  • RDS
  • EFS
  • S3
Week 12:
03 Apr - 07 Apr
 Automatic Deployment and Configuration Management (no lab)
  • What we did wrong in this course
  • Automatic, demand-based deployment of VMs
  • Automatically configuring new VMs
  • Containers
Week 13:
10 Apr - 14 Apr
  • Roundcube Webmail
  • Overview of skills gained
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    Week 14:
    17 Apr - 21 Apr
    		 Evaluation
    • Guided self-evaluation (online)
    • Presentation (in-class)
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