I803,385 IT Infrastructure services

Introduction

This is the home page of courses I803 and I385 for both daily and contact students.

Lecturer

Andres Septer >> andres (.) septer (ät) itcollege (.) ee

form of graduation

Comprehensive examination, ECTS 6 I803, ECTS 5 I385

Important links

Structure

Lectures (I explain stuff)
Excercises – practical tasks with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. Practicing themes discussed in lectures.
Labs – same as exercises, except no step-by-step instructions. You have to find all the necessary information by yourself (Though there is some hints) and solve the problems independedly.

Premises

Basic understanding how Operating System and services work
Basic Linux shell experience
Basic understanding how TCP/IP networking works

We DO repeat some (critical) stuff you learned previously (but not all)

Topics covered

Introduction. Seminar: IT Infrastructure and it's components.
core services: DHCP, DNS, NTP jms.
web services (from Infra admin point of view)
* Backup and Archive
Monitoring and log aggregation
Redundancy and high availability (covered within other topics mostly)
Documentation and Configuration Management
Virtualization
How stuff are different, dealing with REAL HARDWARE
Additional topics may add up

To Grade

You do series of labs (marked as MANDATORY) and present to lecturer.
LABs in I-TEE environment (LABS II will be don DURING LESSONS). Schedule will be presented by lecturer during course.
LABS in E-LAB environment are done AT HOME. Due date - end of semester. Suggested schedule included with labs.
All labs have minimum achievements that MUST be met.
Labs are mandatory (at least minimum level)
Labs must be ready at due date

2017 autumn

Materials

Exercizes I i-tee (those exercizes are VOLUNTEER, but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Those exercizes are done it i-tee ENV [1]

LABS I in ELAB environment (those LABS are MANDATORY)

LABS are done it elab ENV [2] Those LABS contain on-line instructions and are meant to complete at HOME

Learning Space - VyOS - Firewall (all three parts)
Learning Space - Monitoring
Learning Space - HTTPS Security

If those LABs are not available when you log to e-lab environment, inform Lecturer immediately.

LABS II

LABS ARE MANDATORY Those labs are done it i-tee ENV [3]

LAB 1-2-3 DNS, DHCP, NTP
LAB 4-5-6 Web services, proxy, SSL Part I
LAB 4-5-6 Web services, proxy, SSL Part II
LAB 4-5-6 Web services, proxy, SSL Part III
LAB 678 instructions will be added later
Hardware LAB instructions will be added later

I803 IT Infrastructure services

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