Identifying Data

2019/20

Subject (*)

Operating Systems Administration

Code

614G01047

Study programme

Grao en Enxeñaría Informática

Descriptors

Cycle

Period

Year

Type

Credits

Graduate

2nd four-month period

Third

Optional

Language

Galician

Teaching method

Face-to-face

Prerequisites

Department

Ciencias da Computación e Tecnoloxías da Información
Computación

Coordinador

Yañez Izquierdo, Antonio Fermin

E-mail

antonio.yanez@udc.es

Lecturers

Yañez Izquierdo, Antonio Fermin

E-mail

antonio.yanez@udc.es

Web

http://http://www.dc.fi.udc.es/~afyanez/

General description

In this course we'll try to get acquainted with the administration of unix-like operating systems. We'll try to cover
both the concepts and the different implementations of those same concepts by using systems on the different
branches of the unix family tree

It is assumed a certain knowledge of basic operating system concepts, basic unix commands and shell programming

Study programme competencies

Code

Study programme competences

Learning aims

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences

C1 - C8 (See Nuclear competences of the studies)


Knowledge of the characteristics, functionalities and structure of operating systems and design and implement applications based on its services.


B9-B17 (Transversal capacities: see study competences)

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Introduction to System Administration	The role of the System Administrator Users and groups Files, processes and devices Becoming superuser Basic system administration commands Different UNIXes
Booting and Installing the Operating System	Selecting and preparing installation media The boot process Preparing the disks. Basic disk partitioning Sharing disks among O.S.s Boot loaders
Managing users and groups	Managing user acounts Administrative tools for managing users Managing groups User autentification with PAM User autentification with LDAP
Processes and software packages	Managing and monitoring processes Tracing system calls Process privileges and priorities The /proc filesystem Signals Software packages: packages and ports Administering software packages and installing software
Devices, disks and filesystems	Devices and device files. Adding support for devices. Kernel modules Organisation of the UNIX file system. Managing disks. Partitioning schemes Creating and accesing filesystems Managing volumes. RAID Encrypting filesystems Introduction to the ZFS filesystem
Automating administrative tasks	Shell scripting Monitoring system: logs Schedulling execution of tasks: the cron and at commands Starting and stopping system services Initialization files and boot scripts
TCP/IP networking	Basic network configuration Network interface aliasing Manipulating routes inetd configuration
Managing internet and intranet services	fileservers DHCP ssh web mail

Planning

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech		21	63	84
Laboratory practice		14	28	42
Supervised projects		7	10.5	17.5
Objective test		2.5	0	2.5

Personalized attention		4	0	4

(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies

Methodologies	Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech	The teacher will elaborate on the contents and give guidance on how to use and apply these concepts in the laboratory
Laboratory practice	Use and application of the concpts seen in real world system in the laboratory
Supervised projects	Ampliación de las practicas de laboratorio para ser realizada de manera más autónoma por los alumnos
Objective test	Examen escrito para evaluar el grado de asimilación de los conceptos expuesto en las sesiones magistrales

Personalized attention

Methodologies

Objective test

Supervised projects

Guest lecture / keynote speech

Laboratory practice

Description

Both the understanding of the concepts and the application tof these concepts to real systemas may require
personalized attention to the student.

Assessment

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Objective test		Examen escrito para evaluar el grado de asimilación de los conceptos expuesto en las sesiones magistrales	40
Supervised projects		Se valorará la entrega de los trabajos tutelados en el plazo preestablecido asi como su correcto funcionamiento. ALUMNOS TIEMPO PARCIAL: Se realizará una reunión a principio de curso para valorar como se realizará la evaluación en función de su disponibilidad.	20
Laboratory practice		The ongoing work on the laboratory will be evaluated up to 30% qof the final qualification	40

Assessment comments

Sources of information

Basic	openBSD.org (2012). Bug Buster's guide to OpenBSD. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html Frisch, Aeleen (2002). Essential System Administration. O' Reilly Solaris System Engineers (2009). Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials (Solaris System Administration). : Prentice Hall The FreeBSD Documentation Project (2012). The FreeBSD handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Nemeth, Snyder, Hein ,Whaley (2011). Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook 4th edition . Pearson Education

Complementary

Recommendations

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments
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(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.