RADIUS Server

Network Policy Server (NPS) can be used as a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server to perform authentication, authorization, and accounting for RADIUS clients. A RADIUS client can be an access server, such as a dial-up server or wireless access point, or a RADIUS proxy.  For this student project the student learned how to…

Not-For-Profit Website

The objectives for this project was to redesign a not-for-profit’s current website with an updated look and content.  The student found that the current site did not have a uniform look or feel, many of the pagers were disjointed with poor organization, and there were broken links and color disparity.  The student also wanted to…

Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

Ghost Solution Suite (GSS) provides imaging speed, flexibility, automated OS deployment, and User migration.  Overall through this project the student learned about the many benefits of GSS such as: single centralized management, creating base images from a live system, accelerated deployments, and being able to maintain reliable backups. Student Team Members: Katisha Burns, Patrick Owens

Domain Controller

One of the most important concepts in Windows networking is that of a domain.  Through this project the student learned that the job of the domain controller is to facilitate the central management of domain resources.  The student also installed Active Directory Domain Services, a DHCP Server, and a DNS Server. Project Student: Katisha Burns

HP ProLiant Server Build

This semester the student was responsible for a server build that ran Windows Server 2008 R2.  The system requirements for this server were 2 3.4 GHZ Intel Xeon Processors and 6 9.1 GB Hard Drives.  The student also installed 8 GB of ECC RAM and 2 NICs. Project Student: Katisha Burns

University Department Server Layout

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…

CACTI

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…

Meta Tags

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…

SNORT

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

University Department Servers

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…