WeeSan Lee <weesan@cs.ucr.edu> http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~weesan/cs183/

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Related to Unix System Administration
Proposal
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1 page (only) in PDF
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Problem description
Proposed solution
Expected deliverables
Latex & bibtex
 http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~weesan/cs183/download/latex_ex-0.1.tar.gz
Due in the beginning of 5 th week (4/28 @ 11:55pm)

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Report
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4 pages (at least) in PDF
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Introduction
Related work
Technical details
Result
Conclusion
 References
Latex & bibtex
 http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~weesan/cs183/download/latex_ex-0.1.tar.gz
Due in last class (6/6 @ 11:55pm)
8-10 mins in-class presentation
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About 6-8 slides

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Automation
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Kick-start install
Package management/update
Scripting
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Web front-end of user account management
Network
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Web cache performance enhancement using multiple network interfaces
Security
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How to setup a secure network?
Misc
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Asterisk PBX ( http://www.asterisk.org/ )
Linux PVR (http://www.mythtv.org/)

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System Automation
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If any server is down, can you setup an identical server within a few minutes?
Scripting
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Web front-end for email filter or SPAM filter setup
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Improved lockdown script
System Health Monitor System
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Uses crontab or an agent to collect statistics of your system, such as uptime, load, # of processes, tx/rx bytes ..
Implement a web frond-end to display those info

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Visualization
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Instead of displaying number, display graph instead
 Graph the topology of a given network
Fault Tolerant System
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Hot-standby and fail-over if primary system fails
Load balance
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NX server and preserve login session
Something better than round-robin DNS
Backup
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Incremental backup system
Snapshot-like implementation

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System Security
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Parse the log files for potential break-ins, attacks, etc.
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Tripwire re-implementation
Write a tool that determines if any NIC of a group of machines are in promiscuous mode
Authentication Integration between Linux and Windows
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LDAP
Print Server
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Write a script to filter out non-PS files before spooling the files
File system Implementation
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FUSE (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/)

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Cluster Management
 Torque (resource manager) & Maui (cluster scheduler)
 http://www.clusterresources.com/
TCP
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TCP speed-up,
Read http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/CCR99.pdf
Any other topics related to Unix System Administration!
 http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=system+ad ministration

 Find a software related to system admin.
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Install and play with it
Identify a couple of it’s weaknesses
 Improve the weaknesses by:
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Hack the code
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Add new scripts

 Slide 1
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Title of your project
Team members
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Slide 2
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Show what is your project like, eg.
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A screenshot of the input and output
Slide 3
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Motivation
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Solution
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Slide 4
 Technical details
Slide 5
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What lesson did you learn from this project?
Slide 6
 What would you do in the next step?
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Conclusion

 Each team gets < 5 mins to present
 Send me your slides 1 hr before your presentation
 Slides must be in 2003 PowerPoint format
.ppt
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.pptx
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 4 pages (at least), double-column format in PDF
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Introduction (20%)
 Put your project into context
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Why your project is important?
What problems are you trying to solve?
An overview of your system/solution
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Related work (10%)
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Summarize other similar projects
Point out the differences between yours and others
Be sure to include those projects in the references
Technical details (30%)
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How did you tackle the problems?
What methods did you use to reach the goal of your project?
Result (20%)
 Show some tables or figures to support your claims
Conclusion (10%)
 Future work and conclusion
References (10%)

 Latex & bibtex
 http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~weesan/cs183/download/latex
_ex-0.1.tar.gz
 Due on 6/6 @ 11:55pm

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Web-based User
Management + LDAP
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Thomas Helander
Joe Chin
System Security
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Kenneth Anguka
Pissanuk Tansavatdi
Asterisk PBX
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Roberto Rivas
Robert Michael Ballou
RT: Request Tracker
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Jesse Banuelos
Incremental Backup System
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Malalai Behnawa
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FUSE + compressed FS
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Atif Butt
Nagios
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Cole Christie
LDAP
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Quoc Anh Doan
Nguyen Do
LDAP
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Alaa Khatib
Simon Lui
VPN with SWAN
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Win Kongmuang
SPAM
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Nicholas Lee

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Kick-start Linux/Windows/OS-
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Casey Kirkruff
Charles Ma
Asterisk PBX
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Jose Alvarez
Thanh Mai
USB Thumb Drive + Network
Topoloy Layout
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Joseph Wilhelm
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Gilbert Rabuco
Web-based Version Control
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Jonathan Basseri
Noah Silas
Web-based Kick-start
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Jeff Standley
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Web-based User Management
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Piti Supatyasakul
File Backup System
 Nehemiah Willis
Security Surveillance with PVR
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Ashwin Zachariah
System Watch
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Sean Foley
Disk Usage Analysis Tools
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Stephen Jones
USB Thumb Drive + Passwd
Recovery + web-based kickstart
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Ramiro Diaz
Genaro Velasquez

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Unix Recycle Bin
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Bailey Miller
Web-based rdiff-backup
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Dominic Toledo
USB Thumb Drive +
Passwd Recovery
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Owen Ou
SPAM
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Josiah Jordan
USB Thumb Drive +
Passwd Recovery
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Kevin Izu
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Web-based User
Management System +
LDAP
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Kenneth McDowell
Joseph Pawlowski
Kick-start
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Jack Liu
PS-printer filter
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Joanne Lee
TCP Speed-up
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Michael An
Unix Log Files Analyzer
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Miguel Rodriguez