School of Engineering and Technology
Throughout the duration of this project the student installed FreeNas. FreeNAS stands for free Network Attached Storage. The students began by using a laptop, a keyboard, a mouse, and a CD with the download. When the students tried to boot from the CD to do install FreeNAS, it always crashed. They tried burning a new…
The desired outcome of this project was to get the Snort server configured and operational. Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system. In order to complete this project the student finalized all configurations on the rules and settings for the server. However, during the semester the Snort server temporarily went down due to…
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…