School of Engineering and Technology
The goal of this project was to ensure the Nagios software that was installed was functioning properly on the active server. Some of the tasks the student completed for this project included research on Nagios server and its offered features, create documentation on the various features. The student ran into issues that involved Nagios working…
The student that worked on this project had the opportunity to assist in the migration to a new infrastructure for Indiana company. In the first stages of the project the student did pre-planning and preparation work which included selecting a new server, network hardware, deciding what would be physical or virtual environment, planning a backup…
The goal of this project was to create an email server for an Indiana company. The student was asked to create the server using the Debian operating system command line. The project will be continued by the same student in the Fall semester. Project Student: Steven Keller
This project consisted of the student assisting the professor with upgrading the Citrix XenServer software on each machine in the university department pool of servers. The key component to this project was that the servers could not be inaccessible by the users that needed them. The student did research and concluded that they could perform…
The student that worked on this project spent a month in Africa working at clinics in Malawi sponsored by an university. During this project the student worked on connecting the satellite clinic to the rest of the network. Throughout the course of this project the student also implemented a site to site VPN. Project Student:…
The student that worked on this project spent a month in Africa working at clinics in Malawi sponsored by the an university. This project was to install Microsoft Exchange 2010. It was intended to be used as a pilot project to gauge whether or not it was worthwhile to migrate from AtMail to Exchange. Project…
CACTI is an open source networking monitoring and graphing tool. With this project the student worked with the three different tasks that Cacti handles: data retrieval, data storage, and data presentation. CACTI was installed on windows server 2008 R2, Windows XP, and Ubuntu. The student ran into some problems being able to log in to…
The goal of this project was to create a new Ghost server due for lab rooms located in an university department. This needed to be done because of the decline in the old server. The student tested the new server to make sure the hardware was functioning properly and set the hard drives in raid…
This project arose when the students who used Ghost to push images to an university department’s lab was having problems with one row of computers. This row nearly always failed to obtain an IP address after a push from the Ghost server. After much consideration and collaboration with others it was decided that it must…
The students on this project worked on a way to distribute Windows updates from a central server in the lab. This would enable them to control which updates were applied and when, from a central location. This would allow them to reliably keep the labs patched and up to date throughout the week. Student Team…