Final Project

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Final Project

• WeeSan Lee ltweesan_at_cs.ucr.edugt
• http//www.cs.ucr.edu/weesan/cs183/

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Final Project - Proposal

• Individual or group of 2
• Related to Unix System Administration
• Proposal
• 1 page (only) in PDF
• 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 5th week (4/28 _at_ 1155pm)

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Final Project - Report Presentation

• Report
• 4 pages (at least) in PDF
• 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 _at_ 1155pm)
• 8-10 mins in-class presentation
• About 6-8 slides

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Final Project - Examples

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

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Final Project - More Examples

• System Automation
• If any server is down, can you setup an identical
  server within a few minutes?
• Scripting
• Web front-end for email filter or SPAM filter
  setup
• Improved lockdown script
• System Health Monitor System
• 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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Final Project - More Examples

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

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Final Project - More Examples

• System Security
• Parse the log files for potential break-ins,
  attacks, etc.
• 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
• LDAP
• Print Server
• Write a script to filter out non-PS files before
  spooling the files
• File system Implementation
• FUSE (http//fuse.sourceforge.net/)

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Final Project - More Examples

• Cluster Management
• Torque (resource manager) Maui (cluster
  scheduler)
• http//www.clusterresources.com/
• TCP
• TCP speed-up,
• Read http//www.cs.ucsd.edu/savage/papers/CCR99.p
  df
• Any other topics related to Unix System
  Administration!
• http//sourceforge.net/search/?wordssystemadmini
  stration

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A Minimal Project

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

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Final Project Presentation Format

• Slide 1
• Title of your project
• Team members
• Slide 2
• Show what is your project like, eg.
• A screenshot of the input and output
• Slide 3
• Motivation
• Solution

• Slide 4
• Technical details
• Slide 5
• What lesson did you learn from this project?
• Slide 6
• What would you do in the next step?
• Slide 7
• Conclusion

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Final Project Presentation Format

• Each team gets lt 5 mins to present
• Send me your slides 1 hr before your presentation
• Slides must be in 2003 PowerPoint format
• .ppt YES
• .pptx NO

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Final Project Report Format

• 4 pages (at least), double-column format in PDF
• Introduction (20)
• Put your project into context
• Why your project is important?
• What problems are you trying to solve?
• An overview of your system/solution
• Related work (10)
• Summarize other similar projects
• Point out the differences between yours and
  others
• Be sure to include those projects in the
  references
• Technical details (30)
• 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)

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Final Project Report Format

• Latex bibtex
• http//www.cs.ucr.edu/weesan/cs183/download/latex
  _ex-0.1.tar.gz
• Due on 6/6 _at_ 1155pm

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Presentations (6/2)

• Web-based User Management LDAP
• Thomas Helander
• Joe Chin
• System Security
• Kenneth Anguka
• Pissanuk Tansavatdi
• Asterisk PBX
• Roberto Rivas
• Robert Michael Ballou
• RT Request Tracker
• Jesse Banuelos
• Incremental Backup System
• Malalai Behnawa

• FUSE compressed FS
• Atif Butt
• Nagios
• Cole Christie
• LDAP
• Quoc Anh Doan
• Nguyen Do
• LDAP
• Alaa Khatib
• Simon Lui
• VPN with SWAN
• Win Kongmuang
• SPAM
• Nicholas Lee

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Presentations (6/4)

• Kick-start Linux/Windows/OS-X
• Casey Kirkruff
• Charles Ma
• Asterisk PBX
• Jose Alvarez
• Thanh Mai
• USB Thumb Drive Network Topoloy Layout
• Joseph Wilhelm
• Gilbert Rabuco
• Web-based Version Control
• Jonathan Basseri
• Noah Silas
• Web-based Kick-start
• Jeff Standley

• Web-based User Management
• Piti Supatyasakul
• File Backup System
• Nehemiah Willis
• Security Surveillance with PVR
• Ashwin Zachariah
• System Watch
• Sean Foley
• Disk Usage Analysis Tools
• Stephen Jones
• USB Thumb Drive Passwd Recovery web-based
  kick-start
• Ramiro Diaz
• Genaro Velasquez

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Presentations (6/6)

• Unix Recycle Bin
• Bailey Miller
• Web-based rdiff-backup
• Dominic Toledo
• USB Thumb Drive Passwd Recovery
• Owen Ou
• SPAM
• Josiah Jordan
• USB Thumb Drive Passwd Recovery
• Kevin Izu

• Web-based User Management System LDAP
• Kenneth McDowell
• Joseph Pawlowski
• Kick-start
• Jack Liu
• PS-printer filter
• Joanne Lee
• TCP Speed-up
• Michael An
• Unix Log Files Analyzer
• Miguel Rodriguez