In this Lab we built a simple network to serve as our foundation for the rest of the course.

Initial Entry for course

This course is meant to expand upon what was learnt in SYS-255. This will mean the course will focus on issues and tasks involving the administration of distributed computing networks. AAA systems, with an emphasis on cross-platform authentication, will be covered as will network services such as firewalls and DNS. Topics will be tackled from a cost/benefit, business, practical, and best practice perspectives along with those ideas best techniques.

Prerequisites

First lab in course.

Setup notes

Lab00 setup notes

3 Expanded Ideas

These are 3 terms or topics from the lecture or lab that I wanted to learn more about, and my research results.

Upstream: Upstream is sending data from a local system to a remote system. This can include data such as files or emails, but it also can refer to signals transmitted from a users computer to a cable provider. It is extremely important in peer-to-peer software. It is often slower than is counterpart downstream since less banswith is reserved for upstream traffic.

SOURCE: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/9866/upstream-networking

CLI: CLI stands for Command Line Interface, which is a user-friendly interface mostly used for the management of network devices. It allows for easy communication between a user and any computer component/applications. It is a essential component of modern networking.

SOURCE: https://www.webnms.com/cagent/help/technology_used/c_cli_overview_tech.html#:~:text=Command%20Line%20Interface%20is%20a,operating%20system%2C%20and%20other%20applications.

Active Directory Forest: An Active directories top logical container for its configuration files is called a Forest. It is a logical structure that is created by combining at least 2 domain trees, domain/s inside of another root domain.

SOURCE:https://www.varonis.com/blog/active-directory-forest#:~:text=An%20Active%20Directory%20forest%20(AD,%2C%20computers%2C%20and%20group%20policies.