Network Administration

Lecturer:

Jiří Smítka (gar.)

Tutor:

Jiří Smítka (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Computer Systems

Synopsis:

Students acquire basic skills needed to administrate computer networks, networking technologies, services, and to ensure their security. They understand and are able practically use Ethernet technology, VLAN, authorisation, security architecture of computer networks, routing protocols and backbone routing mechanisms, directory and naming services and addressing, administration of networking equipment, secure client connections and secure data transfer, flow control mechanisms, and service availability monitoring.

Requirements:

Basic knowledge of network technologies.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction. Ethernet technology, VLAN, authorization. Security architecture of computer networks firewall, VPN.

2. Routing protocols of autonomous systems RIP, OSPF. Backbone routing mechanisms EGP, BGP.

3. Naming services, addressing DNS, DHCP. Naming services LDAP.

4. Mail. Network equipment administration protocols.

5. Network equipment administration applications. Secure connection of clients and secure data transfer RADIUS, ssh, ssl, IPsec.

6. Data flows in computer networks QoS, flow control mechanisms. Service availability monitoring, SLA.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Introduction. Firewall seminar. Firewall lab. Dynamic routing seminar. Dynamic routing lab. Domain Name System seminar.

2. Domain Name System lab. Consultation. Mail server lab. Monitoring systems seminar. Monitoring systems lab. [2] Semestral project presentation.

Study Objective:

The goal of the module is to teach students to administer network equipment and services.

Study materials:

1. Kurose, J. F., Ross, K. W. ''Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (4th Edition)''. Addison Wesley, 2007. ISBN 0321497708.

2. Stallings, W. ''SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and RMON 1 and 2 (3rd Edition)''. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999. ISBN 0201485346.

3. Josephsen, D. ''Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios''. Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN 0132236931.

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Information Technology (Presented in Czech) (compulsory course of the specialization)
• Informatics - Plan for Period Before Assignement of Specialization (Presented in Czech) (VO)