The unit will provide students with fundamentals and theoretical foundations of network administration, management and documentation. Specific areas include local, wide area, and real-time networks. Related protocols such as TCP/IP, ICMP, IPSEC, CSMA/CD, token-passing, frame relay, ATM, SAN and VoIP. The network administrators function and responsibilities relating to network issues such as planning, implementation, fault diagnosis fine tuning and recovery. Standards for network management - SNMP, RMONs, Protocol analysers, CMIP, ITU / TMN standards, MIBs, DMI, remote management in-band and out-of-band.
2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk
Students will be expected to spend a total of 12 hours per week during semester on this unit. This will include:
CPE5013
Jefferson Tan
Jefferson Tan
At the completion of this unit students will have -
Examination: 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%
| Assessment Task | Value | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Laboratory Assessments | 20% | The assessments will be held during tutorials of Weeks 6 and 9. |
| Network administration project | 30% | Practical outcomes will be demonstrated during tutorials on Week 12. Reports will be due on the Friday of Week 12. |
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You will need access to the following software:
PDFCreator and freeware Unix flavors such as Linux or FreeBSD, and various alternative products, can be downloaded from the Internet. Details will also be posted on the unit website.
VMware Player and Server for Windows and Linux are free to download, but VMware Fusion for Mac OS X is not. Free VM "appliances" can be downloaded from the VMware marketplace. Mac OS X uses can use the underlying UNIX, but some packages are not ported perfectly (if at all), and care must be taken not to ruin your Mac OS X configuration.
Using VMs is preferred, and is safer for the student, rather than installing Linux or BSD Unix directly onto your machine.
Desktops and networking equipment are provided for use during tutorial-labs in the Caulfield School of IT network laboratory for on-campus students. However, students will shoulder the ost of downloading documents and software from home. Students should own USB sticks and similar external storage media in order to store intermediate work, including configuration files and scripts, partial reports or entire virtual machine images, although the latter would typically require 2 to 4 GB of free space.
Information about computer use for students is available from the ITS Student Resource Guide in the Monash University Handbook. You will need to allocate up to 8 hours per week for reading and private study, including time for the use of a computer to access web-based discussion groups.
| Week | Date* | Activities | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 21/02/11 | No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0 | |
| 1 | 28/02/11 | Introduction and Network Management Models | |
| 2 | 07/03/11 | System and Network Components | |
| 3 | 14/03/11 | Managing Hosts and Users | |
| 4 | 21/03/11 | TCP/IP Network Administration | |
| 5 | 28/03/11 | TCP/IP Network Services | |
| 6 | 04/04/11 | Configuration and Change Management | assessed lab work |
| 7 | 11/04/11 | Accounting Management | |
| 8 | 18/04/11 | Security Management | |
| Mid semester break | |||
| 9 | 02/05/11 | Performance Management | assessed lab work |
| 10 | 09/05/11 | Fault Management | |
| 11 | 16/05/11 | Other Network Management Concerns | |
| 12 | 23/05/11 | Research in Network Administration and Revisions | Project demos during tutorials, and report due Friday |
| 30/05/11 | SWOT VAC | No formal assessment is undertaken SWOT VAC | |
*Please note that these dates may only apply to Australian campuses of Monash University. Off-shore students need to check the dates with their unit leader.
To pass a unit which includes an examination as part of the assessment a student must obtain:
If a student does not achieve 40% or more in the unit examination or the unit non-examination total assessment, and the total mark for the unit is greater than 50% then a mark of no greater than 49-N will be recorded for the unit
The assessment requires that exercises are correctly accomplished by individual students.
The outcome of practical work will be assessed during demos, while reports will be assessed separately. Demonstrations must show correct configuration, operation and, in some cases, customization of network components, both hardware and software. Students will also be asked to answer questions to show an understanding of the components being demonstrated. The report will be assessed based on reasonable correctness of network design, choice of services and policies.
Assignment coversheets are available via
"Student Forms" on the Faculty website: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/forms/
You MUST submit a completed coversheet with all assignments, ensuring
that the plagiarism declaration section is signed.
Submission must be made by the due date otherwise penalties will be enforced.
You must negotiate any extensions formally with your campus unit leader via the in-semester special consideration process: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/equity/special-consideration.html.
Reference sources used in the project, particularly in preparing the report, should be properly paraphrased as well as cited in the body of the report as well as in a separate Bibliography. In rare cases, the actual text from the source may be quoted and likewise cited in the body and the Bibliography. Failure to do so may be grounds for a case of plagiarism being brought up. This may result in the exclusion of the submitted assignment and/or failure in this unit.
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You can find Monash's Education Policies at:
http://policy.monash.edu.au/policy-bank/academic/education/index.html
Key educational policies include:
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Reading List
No particular textbook is required. Instead, several online and published materials are more than sufficient for this unit, including these primary references: