Operating System Administration

The course cannot be taken simultaneously with:

Operating System Administration Basics (Y36UAD)

The course is a substitute for:

Operating System Administration Basics (Y36UAD)

Lecturer:

Neurčen (gar.), Dana Čermáková, Miroslav Prágl, Jan Žďárek

Tutor:

Neurčen (gar.), Dana Čermáková, Miroslav Prágl, Jan Žďárek

Supervisor:

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Synopsis:

Course provides students with basic administrative terms

and tasks on UNIX and MS Windows operating systems.

Students will get skills to understand and configure basic

components of an OS on a PC hardware platform.

Requirements:

There is a required limit of the total sum of points from

labs and final exam.^

Active knowledge of A7B36UOS lectures is assumed and required.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. OS administration principals, administrator rights and

their obtaining.^

2. Users administration, name services.^

3. System shutdown and startup. Process init.^

4. Disk subsystem administration. Swap.^

5. Filesystem administration.^

6. Ecryption and authentization, cryptography in network

protocols.^

7. Securing OS UNIX.^

8. Windows installation, configuration and patch management

^

9. Resources administration and access rights.^

10. Administration and performance tools.^

11. Windows network administration.^

12. Backup, troubleshooting and security.^

13. Active Directory and Group Policy.^

14. Windows administration in the heterogeneous environment

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Classroom equipment, software administration, patches.^

2. Syslog subsystem configuration, rights delegation.^

3. User administration tools, name service configuration.^

4. Startup scripts analysis and modification.^

5. Disk manager configuration.^

6. Filesystem creation, mounting, checking and repairing.^

7. Cryptography protocols configuration.^

8. Installation and configuration of Windows. Replication

of system^

9. Object access administration.^

10. System administration and performace tools.^

11. Administration and procedures in Windows network.^

12. System recovery.^

13. Administration tools in Active Directory and Group

Policy.^

14. Windows administration tools in heterogeneous systems.

Study Objective:

To acquire basic notions and practices in OS administration.

Study materials:

1. Manual pages, Linux Documentation Project.^

2. Windows Resource Kit.^

3. Sysinternals Tools.

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: