Course Instructor: Emil Slusanschi

Syllabus:

The Network Service Management class addresses topic relevant for administrating software services provided by a computer network (email, web, LDAP, file sharing, services for developers, etc). It includes aspects such as designing, securing and testing network services in order to provide high performance applications to users.

We will tackle tracks such as service scalability and adapting services to the specifics of user applications. During the lecture, we will highlight relevant concepts of each service and present advantages and disadvantages of various solutions for implementing them.

Students will be presented with the technologies in order to deploy services and network infrastructure and to be able to troubleshoot issues, both for server-side and client-side diagnostics. The laboratory will insist on the practical side of network services.

During the lab, students will engage in activities such as implementing an efficient, secure and scalable service suite for a small and medium sized organization, defining the set of necessary configuration for a Linux-based server, managing Linux-based services through active control of the file system, processes and users.

All class resources are available at http://elf.cs.pub.ro/gsr/