School of Engineering and Technology
Nagios is a program located on a server that’s function is to continually poll other servers and determine if they and any network services they are hosting are still running. The objective for this project was to reconfigure Nagios so that it would send alerts to the appropriate personnel when certain criteria was met. Project…
During the semester the hard drive in this server failed and needed to be reloaded. The student installed the Nagios logging software and other programs that it was dependent upon to function. Then the student reconfigured the logging software for use on the university department’s network. Project Student: Rick Wilburn
While working with the Indiana Company this semester the students were responsible for upgrading hardware, installing software, and updating the inventory. Through this project the students learned about different imagining techniques, ticketing systems, Active Directory, and Citrix Server. Student Team Members: Wur Aeek, Yan Grishin
This semester at the not-for-profit group the students were responsible for creating 2 separate VLANS and setting up new computers with the same images. The students added all of the computers in the not-for-profit group to a domain and created a naming convention. Also, in order to fix the previous networking issues the students installed IPcop…
For this project the student was responsible for creating a script for the Tomcat Apache server. This script would require passwords, home folders with proper permissions, a symbolic link, and user feedback. Through the creation of this script the student learned how to read files from a given directory, how to initialize and set variables,…
Within this portion of the university department Website project the students were responsible for designing the front-end of the PHP based website as well as re-evaluating the content. To make the website more efficient the students created a new CSS template and moved the host to a new server. However, when the site was moved…
This semester the student learned how SNORT operates by using a set of signature based rules and how an open source per script is use to manage the rules. The student also learned how to use the Rule Analysis and log checking through the use of BASE, which is a common web based front end…
The goal of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is to prevent confidentiality, integrity, and availability of private and sensitive data from being compromised. Through this project the student learned the process of how to implement FISMA. The FISMA Security Life Cycle can essentially be broken down to categorizing the information systems, selecting the…
With this project the student was responsible for writing a script that would create student accounts for the Windows-based web development courses. The student learned how to analyze, consolidate, test and adjust the script. The student then created an instructional document to serve as a reference for creating and deleting student accounts. Project Student: Russell…
The Microsoft Kinect project is being used to research the use of the Microsoft Kinect gaming system to give unique and interactive presentations. For this project the student used a Microsoft SDK to create a program in Visual Studio to modify the functionality of the Kinect system. Kinect device distance in relation to the presenter…