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== What This Course is About ==
 
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This course is the second in a series of courses about Linux technologies:
 
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:* The notes that you make during the labs and assignments are your reference material for the quizzes, tests, and assignments. Take really good notes, and if you have questions, experiment and consult with your professor.
 
:* The notes that you make during the labs and assignments are your reference material for the quizzes, tests, and assignments. Take really good notes, and if you have questions, experiment and consult with your professor.
  
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:* Carefully read ALL lab instructions and check your work regularly. The labs have been designed with backup safeguards to prevent the student from losing their work. On the other hand, students may lose their work if they fail to follow lab instructions or accidentally forget their removable hard disks in the workstation's hard disk bay drive!
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:* Carefully read ALL lab instructions and check your work regularly. The labs have been designed with backup safeguards to prevent the student from losing their work. On the other hand, students may lose their work if they fail to follow lab instructions or accidentally forget their removable hard disks in the workstation's hard disk bay drive!| width="40%
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|<h3>Required Materials (for second class)</h3><br><table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td  width="10%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;border-top: thin solid #cccccc;">[[Image:hd-tray.jpg|left|70px]]</td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;border-top: thin solid #cccccc;">'''SATA Removable Hard Drive'''</td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;text-align:right;border-top: thin solid #cccccc;">'''Minimum Capacity:''' 250 GB</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td  width="10%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;">[[Image:blank-cd.png|left|50px]]</td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;">'''Centos7 Full DVD'''<br>'''Centos7 Live DVD'''<br>(both required)</td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;text-align:right;">[http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Download_and_Burn_in_TEL_Open_Lab How to Create at Seneca]<br>[http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Download_and_Burn_at_Home How to Create at Home]</td></tr><tr><td  width="10%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;">[[Image:ubs-key.png|left|50px]]</td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;padding-top:25px;padding-bottom:25px;">'''USB Flash Drive'''</td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;text-align:right;">'''Minimum Capacity:''' 16 GB</td></tr><tr><td  width="10%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;">[[Image:log-book.png|left|50px]]</td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;">'''Lab Log-book'''<br>(download and print)</td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;text-align:right;">[http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~murray.saul/ops235/lab_logbook_s2015.pdf pdf]</td></tr><tr><td  width="10%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;padding-top:25px;padding-bottom:25px;padding-left:25px;"><span style="font-size:3em;font-family:arial;color:red;font-weight:bold;">!</span></td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;">'''Dos and Don'ts'''</td><td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid #cccccc;text-align:right;">[http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/OPS235-tips tips]</td></tr></table>
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{{Admon/important|Place your Full Name and Contact Information on the hard disk tray cover and directly on the disk drive.|Use an adhesive label and permanent marker, or a white marker on the black cover. No label - no marks for your labs.}}
 
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{{Admon/important|Always "double-check" that you have removed your hard disk tray prior to exiting the lab room.|You may have your hard drive tray stolen which will result in lost work!}}
 
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{{Admon/important|Always shut down your system under software control, rather than using the reset or power buttons. |You can shutdown using the GUI or with the <code>poweroff</code>, <code>reboot</code>, <code>init</code>, or <code>shutdown</code> commands. Shut down your virtual machines before shutting down your main system.|}}
 
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|[[Image:kent.png|thumb|left|325px|<b>Kent Poots</b><br />Sections '''?'''  &amp; '''?'''  <br />kent.poots.seneca@gmail.com<br />[http://www.drivehq.com/sharing/ShareLogon.aspx?key=10226970/l90aboda8mq8 Kent's class materials] ]]
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|[[Image:murraysaul.jpg|thumb|left|225px|<b>Murray Saul</b><br />Sections: <br />murray.saul@senecacollege.ca<br />[http://murraysaul.wordpress.com/ Murray's web-site] ]]
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|[[Image:JohnSelmys.jpg|thumb|left|225px|<b>John Selmys</b><br />Section '''C'''(First Half) <br />john.selmys@senecacollege.ca<br />[https://scs.senecac.on.ca/~john.selmys/subjects/index.html John Selmys' Teaching Schedule] ]]
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[[Category:OPS235]]
 
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Revision as of 09:25, 29 April 2015

Quick Links
Course Outline
Assignments
Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Welcome to OPS235 - Introduction to Open System Servers

What This Course is About

This course is the second in a series of courses about Linux technologies:

  • ULI101 taught you to be a Linux user. In OPS235, you will move from being Linux a user to being a Linux system administrator.
  • As a system administrator, you will be responsible for installing, configuring, adjusting, maintaining, and troubleshooting the operation of computer systems. This is a lot of responsibility, and with that responsibility comes power. You will be able to change anything on the system, and you will also have the ability to damage or destroy the system.
  • In this course you use a removable disk tray with the lab computers to set up a Linux system. You will also set up at least four additional Linux systems using "Virtual Machines", and therefore gain experience with different types of system configurations as well as setting up networking between systems.
  • Later courses (OPS335 and OPS435) teach you to administer Linux servers (web servers, DNS servers, FTP servers, file sharing servers) -- and to use more complex scripting to boost your system administration efficiency.

Learning by Doing

Most of the learning in this course occurs through the hands-on problem solving that takes place in the eight labs and two assignments.

Requirements for Success:

  • It is very important to stay up-to-date with the coursework, and to practice until you have confidently mastered each task.
  • All of the software used in this course is open source software, so you are free to use, modify, and redistribute it. This means that you can install it as many times as you want on as many different computers as you would like. It also means that you can tinker with it -- you can take it apart, see how it works, and put it back together in the same or a different way, limited only by your time and ambition. You are encouraged to experiment and question liberally.
  • The notes that you make during the labs and assignments are your reference material for the quizzes, tests, and assignments. Take really good notes, and if you have questions, experiment and consult with your professor.
  • Carefully read ALL lab instructions and check your work regularly. The labs have been designed with backup safeguards to prevent the student from losing their work. On the other hand, students may lose their work if they fail to follow lab instructions or accidentally forget their removable hard disks in the workstation's hard disk bay drive!| width="40%

Required Materials (for second class)


Hd-tray.jpg
SATA Removable Hard DriveMinimum Capacity: 250 GB
Blank-cd.png
Centos7 Full DVD
Centos7 Live DVD
(both required)		How to Create at Seneca
How to Create at Home
Ubs-key.png
USB Flash DriveMinimum Capacity: 16 GB
Log-book.png
Lab Log-book
(download and print)		pdf
!Dos and Don'tstips


Course Faculty

During the Summer 2015 semester, OPS235 is taught by:

Murray Saul
Sections:
murray.saul@senecacollege.ca
Murray's web-site
Hans Heim
Sections
hans.heim@senecacollege.ca
Hans' web-site
Azzad Kara
Sections
azzad.kara@senecacollege.ca
Azzad's web-site
Raymond Chan
Sections
raymond.chan@senecacollege.ca
Raymond's web-site

Wiki Participation

  • You can edit these pages! Please feel free to fix typos or add links to additional resources. Please use this capability responsibly.
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