School of Engineering and Technology
Nagios is a monitoring system that allows you to resolve issues in an IT infrastructure before the problems affect the main business processes. This monitoring system offers alerts for servers, applications, services, and switches. Overall this project taught the student how to install and configure Nagios in a Linux environment. In the end the student…
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…
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
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
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
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…
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…