Summary

This page will house tech journal entries for SYS265. It will contain labs, notes, and terms that are introduced over the course of the semester.

Week 01

Labs

Lab00 - Routing and Windows

Terms/Topics

• Pfsense: a firewall software that provides routing services between a Local Area Network and Wide Area Network. It is a free firewall distribution.
• Forward Lookup Zone : A forward lookup zone is used to resolve hostnames to IP addresses. The DNS server receives queries based on hostnames and returns an associated IP address.
• Reverse Lookup Zone : A reverse lookup zone does the opposite of a Forward Lookup Zone in the sense that a DNS server receives an IP address query and resolves it to a hostname.

Week 02

Labs

Assignment - DHCP
Network Management Lab

Terms/Topics

• Simple Network Management Protocol(SNMP): A application layer protocol which is used to manage and monitor network-connected devices. SNMP uses a Management Information Base (MIB) which is a formatted text file that is contained within the SNMP manager. It collects information and organizes it. This information is used to translate messages before sending them to you.
• snmpwalk: This is a command that is used with SNMP to query a device to gather a tree of information for that device.
• tcpdump: This command is used to capture incoming packets on a device. The command can me used with -c to specify the amount of packets to be captured and the command can listen on a specific port.

Week 04

Labs

Docker Setup Lab

Notes

Network Configuration Using netplan
Adding sudo User in Ubuntu

Week 05

Labs

Git and Linux SSH Script Lab
Docker Project - Django and PostgreSQL

Week 06

Labs

Automation with Ansible Lab

Week 07

Labs

DFS Lab

Week 10

Labs

AD GPO and SW Deploy Lab