Network Operating Systems

Lecturer:

Pavel Troller (gar.)

Tutor:

Pavel Troller (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Telecommunications Engineering

Synopsis:

Network operating systems, Linux, Unix. Administration and network tools, managing and administration of documentation. The graduates will be informed about basic conception and procedures in operating systems administration (UNIX) and gain the basic facility in operating systems configuration based on the x 86 platforms.

Requirements:

1. 100% presence on the exercises (in a case of serious reasons of absence, substitute exercise in a form agreed with the lecturer).

2. Successfull passing of assessment tests.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Operating systems - basic definitions, origin and development, main types and families of OS.

2. Unix-like operating systemes. Origin, development, current status. GNU, Linux, BSD, commercial systems.

3. System documentation, license administration, software installation.

4. Administration of users, administrator rights and how to gain them.

5. System startup/shutdown. Process handling. The „init“ process, startup/shutdown scripts.

6. Administration of the disk subsystem. File systems, swap files and partitions.

7. Network facilities of the Linux OS, basic network configuration.

8. Advanced network facilities of the Linux OS. iptables, rule-based routing.

9. Typical installation of the Linux OS.

10. Software compilation for the Unix-like OS. GNU toolchain.

11. Configuration and recompilation of the Linux kernel.

12. Security subsystem of the Unix-like systems and Linux. Network security.

13. Unix-like systems in mobile and embedded devices. Android, Meego, OpenWRT...

14. OS virtualization and cloud computing. Examples of the Unix-like OSes.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Initial exercise. Contents of the exercises, safety rules in the classroom.

2. Basic skills. User administration, user access rights, file permissions.

3. System startup/shutdown. The „init“ process.

4. The disk susbsystem administration. Filesystem administration, swap, RAID, LVM.

6. Linux OS installation, Linux kernel configuration and recompilation.

7. Test

8. Instalation and deinstalation of programs and packages by compilation and using the package manager.

9. Networking in Linux. ifconfig, route, iptables, netstat. Security basics. System logs.

10. Useful tools, shell scripting, grep, sed, awk...

11. Own programming - gcc, make...

12. Test

13. Spare exercise

14. Assessment

Study Objective:

Students will learn basics of operation, installation and administration of Unix-like operating systems, with a special focus on the networking facilities.

Study materials:

1.Adelstein, T. - Lubanovic, B.: Linux System Administration. O'Reilly Media, Inc., New York, 2007.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri
Sat	roomT2:B3-700 Troller P. 07:30–19:30 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice Laboratoř K332

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Komunikace, multimedia a elektronika - Síťové a informační technologie_163540 (compulsory course of the specialization)