School of Engineering and Technology
The idea of this project was to research, develop, and build a small Linux-based cluster for the purpose of installing VMware Server on an Ubuntu Linux Server build. The virtual environment would then be able to provide an environment for experimental operating system builds. It would also be used by students to study the actual…
An university department is in charge of managing the accounts on the servers that students use to test and store projects. The main purpose of this project is to add and delete accounts based on an expiration date. In order to accomplish that, Linux scripts were used to create new accounts, including rules to properly…
The goal of this project was to have a network monitoring system that monitors the availability of each server in the university department. Nagios was the software that was used to fulfill the needs of this project. The team installed Nagios onto a server and then logged the servers that needed to be monitored. After…
The department was moved from the one building on campus to another building on campus. To decrease the amount of downtime for the department, the servers were brought to the new location and quickly set up. Organization was not the first priority during the initial move, but it is for this project. In order to…
The goal of this project was to develop an inventory system for the university department that could provide a record of the items owned by the department. The information that needed to be recorded about each item included specifications, serial number, purchase date, funding source, and value of the items. Inventory policies were researched until…
A university department hosts a Tech Camp that offers informational instructional class for high school teachers around the state. The software that was needed for this specific Tech Camp session was Adobe CS3. The goal of this project was to successfully create a build that contained Microsoft Windows Vista with the capability of running several…
The IUPUI living lab has been helping this Not-For-Profit organization since the fall of 2012. The living lab has created the wireless network for this organization. The work that needs to be done at this moment is to configure and position a Netgear switch and replace the Buffalo WAP with a different WAP so that…
The purpose of this project is to implement an updated linux tomcat server for class/student use at university. With the installation of the server, several perl scripts must be used to import users, create home directories, and import their information into a SQL database to track their use and allow for auditing of the users…
The ghost server is used to pull and push updated images to and from workstations that reside in two of the labs use by University Department students. This project was created to run and maintain the ghost server. This process included updating the image on a single machine, pulling that image back to the server,…
This project involves working for an instructor to evaluate the capabilities of two Mac OS X Terminal Server Solutions. The purpose is to determine the feasibility of having an Apple Server for remote application development for students for future online classes. The project explored the performance capabilities of these programs and how many reliable concurrent…