BIT Network and System Administration

Overview of Network Reference Model (OSI, TCP/IP), Concepts of IPv4 Addressing, VLSM, CIDR, Introduction to IPv6 Addressing, Types, Formats, Address Auto-Configuration, Networking Configuration Basics for Windows and Linux System, Fundamentals of Unicast and Multicast Routing in IPv6, Introduction to Programmable Networks: SDN and OpenFlow

Linux Server and Desktop OS Installation, Disk Partitioning, Logical Volume Manager, Boot Process and Startup Services: Xinetd/Inetd, Managing Accounts: Users, Groups and Other Privileges, Job Scheduling with Cron, Crontab, Anacron and System Log Analysis, Introduction to Shell Programming, Online Server Upgrade/Update Process, Server Monitoring and Management Basics

Network Interface Configuration, Diagnosing Network Startup Issues, Introduction to Packet Level and Application Level Firewall, Fundamental Commands in Network Troubleshooting, SDN Operations and Management, SDN Controller and Dataplane Communication, Fundamentals of Open Source Network Monitoring (e.g. Nagios)

DHCP Principle, DHCP Options, Scope, Reservation and Relaying, DHCP Troubleshooting

DNS Principles and Operations, Types of DNS Queries, DNS Server Types and Functionalities, Caching Only Name Server, DNS Zone Transfers, DNS Dynamic Updates, DNS Delegation

Web Server Configuration Basics, Name Based and IP Based Virtual Hosting, Caching Only Name Server – Proxy Caching Server Administration, Proxy ACL, Bandwidth Management, Proxy Firewall Implementation Basics

General Samba Configuration, CUPS Configuration Basics, FTP Principles, Anonymous FTP, Server Configuration

SMTP, POP and IMAP Principles, SMTP Relaying Principles, Mail Domain Administration, Basic Mail Server Configuration (Sendmail, Postfix), SPAM Control and Filtering