School of Engineering and Technology
An Indiana University tech support department had a severely cluttered and non-intuitive organizational unit (OU) structure. A Living Lab student designed a new OU with a standardized structure and more effective and modular Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to simplify management and navigation. PowerShell scripts were used to copy a standardized root structure to each department…
An Indiana University department needed a new file server with more storage space. The project used spare university-owned equipment to create a new, more powerful file server with more storage than the previous file server. The new physical server will eventually replace a subscription-based virtual machine and save the department several thousands of dollars per…
The Monitor Sever project entails having to monitor several servers and view statistical information from a virtual machine. The information needed to be reviewed: Hard disk space CPU utilization Memory Utilization Network flow The requirements of this project is to find a free software to monitor the servers. The software should have the option to…
The WordPress Security project is to research, test, and implement plugins that make WordPress more secure. Also making the WordPress login process and webpages more secure. The project also includes researching database encryption and securing network connections. Project Student: Andrew Strakis
The SNORT project is to monitor the network-using SNORT. Making sure that SNORT only reads and gives alerts on a specific VLAN traffic without blocking the user access. The goal is to get SNORT running and logging traffic information to a database. There it can be read by Base and the admin can view the…
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…
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 wipe hard drives using DBAN. The students working on this project began by pulling out the old hard drives and record their serial numbers. They then used DBAN to remove all existing data on the drive. They wiped seven drives in each machine and made sure the drive…
The goal of this project was to produce a lab based on a java encrytpor/decrytpor that will show students how DES, 3DES, AES and SSL work. This student worked on the prototype encryption program last semester and worked on creating the labs this semester. Students will use this tool and research the encryption types to…
This project consisted of backing up the servers in an university department. The Bacula server ran on Debian which is a Linux distribution. Bacula is an open source program that allows the server to manage backups, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different kinds of computers. Project Student: Brad Robbins