OPS335 Weekly Schedule

Winter 2016

Instructors: Peter Callaghan (Section) Murray Saul (Sections ) Andrew Smith (Sections) OPS335 Resource Page: [ OPS335 Resources ]

Note: Each OPS335 instructor will indicate the due dates for labs, tests and assignments. This schedule is a considered to be a general guideline for week-by-week content.

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Reference	Labs
Week 1: 11-17 Jan (No class Monday Jan 11th: Experience Seneca)	Introduction to OPS335: outline, policies assignments, labs, evaluation, email Fedora Project Overview	Lecture Notes: *Chapter One - Where to Start Fedora 22 Installation Guide Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 0
Week 2: 18-24 Jan	Basic Networking: *ifconfig, aliasing, route, iptables, ping configuring a gateway, ip forwarding, masquerading, interface aliasing Assignment 1 Part 1 Released	Lecture Notes: Chapter 14 - TCP/IP Networking Fedora Systemd Documentation DNF Guide Configuring a Service	Lab 1
Week 3: 25-31 Jan	Packet Filtering: iptables	Lecture Notes: Chapter 22 - Security Firewalld documentation Firewalld rich rules	Lab 2
Week 4: 1-7 Feb	DNS: nslookup, dig, host, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/named.conf Assignment 1 Part 1 Due Assignment 1 Part 2 Released	Lecture Notes: BIND and DNS notes Chapter 17 - DNS: The Domain Name System DNS Setup	Lab 3
Week 5: 8-14 Feb	Backup/Restore: tar, cpio, dump/restore wget, netcat, ssh, scp, rsync, cron, at	Lecture Notes: Chapter 10 - Backups Lab 4 Automating Backups	Lab 4
Week 6: 15-21 Feb	Mail: postfix, smtp, imap, pop, mailx	Lecture Notes: Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail Postfix Mail Configuration	Lab 5
Week 7: 22-28 Feb	Evaluation: Test 1	Lecture Notes: Lab 5 Preparation / Debrief
Study Week: 26 Oct - 1 Nov (No Scheduled Classes)
Week 8: 2 - 8 Nov	Disk Space, Using LVM / Practical Test 1 Monitoring Hard Disk Space LVM - Definition Using LVM Creating Shell Scripts to Flag Low Disk Space	Lecture Notes: Lab 5 Warnings / Debrief	Lab 5
Week 9: 9 - 15 Nov	Disk Space, Using LVM / Continued Using LVM Creating Shell Scripts to Flag Low Disk Space	Lecture Notes:
Week 10: 16 - 22 Nov	Configuring a Network Using Virtual Machines Static Network Configuration Network Configuration with a DHCP client Basic TCP/IP network commands: ping, ifconfig, netstat	Lecture Notes: Lab 6 Warnings / Debrief	Lab 6
Week 11: 23 - 29 Nov	Setup and Configure Secure Shell Services Network Services SSH	Lecture Notes: Lab 7 Warnings / Debrief	lab7
Week 12: 30 Nov - 6 Dec	Setting Up, Using & Maintaining a DHCP Server DHCP Server	Lecture Notes: Lab 8 Warnings / Debrief	lab8
Week 13: 7 - 9 Dec	Evaluation: Assignment 2, labs 5 - 8 & Practical Test 2	Lecture Notes:
Exam Week: 10 - 16 August

OPS335 Resources

|Week 7 19 Oct - 23 Oct | test #1

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|Week 8 02 Nov - 06 Nov | Web Servers

• Apache installation and configuration

Assignment 1 part 2 due |

• Chapter 23 - Web Hosting

| Lab 6

• Apache Install/Config

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|Week 9 09 Nov - 13 Nov | SAMBA

• smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs)
• smb.conf, testparm
• smbpasswd, pdbedit
• getsebool, setsebool

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• Chapter 30 - Cooperating with Windows

| Lab 7

• Samba Servers and Clients

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|Week 10 16 Nov - 20 Nov | NFS with Automount

• exportfs, showmount, /etc/exports,autofs, auto.master

Assignment 2 Released |

• Chapter 18 - The Network File System

| Lab 8

• NFS Setup

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|Week 11 23 Nov - 27 Nov | NIS

• ypserv, ypbind, ypcat

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• Chapter 19 - Sharing System Files

| Lab 9

• NIS Configuration

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|Week 12 30 Nov - 04 Dec | Test #2

FTP Server |

• vsftpd (ftp server)
  • project web site
  • /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf configuration file
  • vsftpd FAQ
• Tutorial on ftp commands

| Lab 10

• VSFTP Server Setup

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|Week 13 07 Dec - 09 Dec | Exam Review

Assignment 2 Due | |

• Outstanding Labs

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