Arba Minch university

Institute of Technology
Faculty of computing and software engineering

Program Information Technology

Course code ITec4112
Course Title System and Network Administration
Degree program Information Technology
Module Name Computer Networks
Module Number 11
CP Credits (CP) 5
Contact Hours Lecture Lab Tutorial Home study Total
2 3 0 5 10
Target Group: Year V Extension Information Technology Students
Year /Semester Year: V, Semester: II
Prerequisite ITec2102, ITec2022
Status of the course Core
Course description Introduction to systems administration; configuration and administration of
disk file systems; domain and workgroup concepts; user accounts; backing
up and restoring files; auditing resources and events; network administration
overview; TCP/IP; network layer and routing; router configuration
Course objective At the end of this course students should be able to:
 Manage a network
 Create and manage users and groups;
 Configure switches and routers;
 Manage disks and files;
 Backup and restore system and user data
 • Remotely administer a network
Course Outline Chapter 1:
1.1. Introduction & Background
1.2. Computer Systems & Network overview
1.3. Philosophy of System Administration
Chapter 2: Windows Network Concepts
 2.1. Workgroups
2.2. Server Domain
2.3. Domain Controllers
2.4. LDAP & Windows Active Directory ®
Chapter 3: User Administration Concepts & Mechanisms
3.1.1. Users and capabilities
3.1.2. Policy Tools & Roaming Profiles
3.1.3. Advanced Concepts I
3.1.3.1. The Registry
3.1.4. Automating Administrative Tasks - Windows Host Scripting
3.2. Advanced Concepts II
3.2.1. Routing and NAT
3.2.2. Proxies and Gateways
Chapter 4: Resource Monitoring & Management I
4.1.1. Stand-alone systems (Memory, Disk Use, CPU Use)
4.1.2. Monitoring Tools
4.1.3. Routine Resource Maintenance
4.2. Resource Monitoring & Management II
4.2.1. Bandwidth
4.2.2. File & Mail Servers
4.2.3. Network Printers
4.3. Remote Administration
4.4. Performance
4.4.1. RAID
4.4.2. SCSI
Chapter 5: Security
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Linux Systems and Network Concepts
 5.3. Linux Resource Monitoring & Management
5.3.1. Monitoring Tools
5.3.2. Network Bandwidth and Processing Power
5.3.3. Managing Storage
5.4. Linux User Administration
5.5. Linux Service/Server Administration
5.5.1. Supporting a Windows Network - through SAMBA
5.5.2. Mail Server
Lab Description 1. Software Windows server 2011 operating System, Solaris Operating System,
Cisco IOS simulator
Assessment Mid exam ----------------------------------------------------------25%
Assignment---------------------------------------------------------20%
Lab exam------------------------------------------------------------15%
Final Exam ----------------------------------------------------------40%
Total -----------------------------------------------------------------100%
References Text and References
1. Computer Networks, 3rd edition, by Andrew Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall.
2. An Engineering Approach to Computer Networks, S. Keshav.
3. High Performance Communication Networks, Jean Walrand, Pravin .
4. Internetworking Multimedia, Jon Crowcroft, Mark Handley and Ian Wakeman.