NETWORK

ADMINISTRATION
Unit 1 - Introduction
Course Description
• This course introduces students to the foundational
concepts and experience in networking and systems
administration.
• The course provides the following
• basic theory
• concepts and practical experience in the design
• installation and configuration of personal computers
• peer-to-peer networks
• client-server networks meeting user requirements.
Topics to be discussed
1.1 Network and system administration
1.2 Applying technology in an environment
1.3 The human role in systems
1.4 Discipline
1.5 challenges
1.6 Common practice and good practice System Administration
1.7 Network Infrastructure
1.8 Operating Systems
1.9 File systems
1.10 IPv4 Networks
1.11 Address space in IPv4
1.12 Host identities and name services.
1.13 Common network sharing models
1.14 Local network orientation and analysis
1.1 Network and system administration

• Network and system administration is a branch of

engineering
• It addresses both the technology of computer
systems and the users of the technology on an
equal basis.
• It is about putting together a network of computers
(workstations, PCs and supercomputers), getting
them running and then keeping them running
• A system administrator works for users, so that they
can use the system to produce work.