School of Engineering and Technology
For this student project the students spent time cleaning out the server room to make room for incoming server racks. While redoing the layout of the server room the student was also required to create a Port Map. The students were also responsible for taking inventory on all of the devices in the university department…
This project taught students that CACTI is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. CACTI collects periodical data through Net-SNMP which is an application suite to implement SNMP. Through the CACTI Operation the students also learned how to perform data retrieval, data storage, and data…
A meta tag is a special HTML tag that is included in the header of a wep page. Meta tags provided specific information about the content on particular pages and is used by most major search engines to index websites based on their keywords and descriptions. After learning about how meta tags were the student…
With this student project the students were responsible for installing and testing SNORT, and open source Intrusion Detection System. Overall, the key focus of the project was to be able to run SNORT in a Debian Linux environment which also had libpcap, libdnet, and DAQ installed. Student Team Members: Jin Hong, Robert VanHentenryck
This semester the student was responsible for troubleshooting some issues with some servers. The student had to research the beep codes and discovered that the servers were having a memory issue. After researching the codes the student then learned how to a stick of ram by using memtest x86+ in 48GB increments. Project Student: Arend…
Prior to this student project there was not a jurisdiction over what type of laptop a student should have. However, through this project students determined that the university department should implement a mandatory program that requires students to have a laptops with the minimum required specifications. The specifications were then posted to the department’s website…
The project for this semester was to redesign labs that are used to teach the Digital Forensics Class at an university department. Essentially 15 forensics laptop kits were created for future students. These kits included a laptop with windows XP, an external hard drive, and a flash drive. In addition to the kits, the student…
This project gave the student hands on experience with how the data flows in a university department. The student used the network diagrams to gain information of this process. Essentially the data flows from to the workstation to the stitch and then to the patch panel. Once the data is sent to the patch panel…
This semester the students visited an Indiana company Data Center and were introduced to a virtual environment. The students were responsible for managing and monitoring network operations in which there were 3 primary servers, 300 physical servers, 105 virtual servers, and a 3PAR storage area network. Students also monitored the network operations by using SNMP…
With this project, the student was responsible for installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on VMware 7.0 and 8.0. Throughout the installation process the student received an error message about the system being unable to open the kernel device. The student then learned that he would have to edit the configuration files so that the vmcio.present…