School of Engineering and Technology
An university department needed to sanitize its public facing information and remove any connections between projects and the clients those projects were for. As a precaution, clients were referred to in very general terms and assigned an identifier unique to that client. Client names and identifiers are recorded in a separate Excel document for use…
This project was to install the Dell Open Manage Server Admin. Open Manage is a system management utility providing all manner of granular detail about the systems it is installed on. The OMSA intended installation targets were the Citrix Xen Servers. The Citrix Xen had a vhost, vhost1, vhost2 and vhost3. The student downloaded and…
The student needed to set up a NFSISO Share on the network. This project would serve up ISO files on the network level which would allow any host with the appropriate permissions to access them. To accomplish this project a VM would need to be spun up and configured to serve as a NFS Share. …
Due to the problems this student encountered with XenCenter while working on a few other projects, the student thought that XenCenter would perform better if it was ran off of Windows Server 2008 R2 VM instead of Windows XP. The student created the VM and installed XenCenter Client. Project Student: Chris Lee
This projects purpose was to provide a web proxy for the vhost machines to have outside network access. In order to accomplish this task the student created another virtual machine with Squid as the firewall. Project Student: Chris Lee
The goal of this project was to hook a new iSCSI VDS up to the Xen Server pool for VM consumption. The student simply added a new iSCSI storage device to the pool. Project Student: Chris Lee
The student on this project was asked to modify the service check intervals to be ten minutes instead of one minute. Nagios provides network monitoring services for the lab hosts. The config files are what controls the actions of Nagios, so the student just needed to modify the appropriate configuration file. Project Student: Chris Lee
The goal of this project was to push fresh images out to two labs. The student pushed and pulled images to and from the machines in these labs to ensure they were clean images with the most recent updates. The student also had the privilege of preparing a Special Events build for a not-for-profit event. …
The goal of this event was to prepare the labs for an event for a not-for-profit. The students that worked on this pushed a special events build to the two labs they would be using, connected the machines to the network, and set up a printer in each lab. An issue occurred during the event…
The goal of this project was to build a server using hardware located in the server room. The server was going to function as a file server and store the Virtual Machine files. The student decided to use Debian 6.0 as the OS for this server. The installation when smoothly and the student also installed…