System Admin Team Rules

 

The assignments given during the semester involve many aspects of what a real Systems Administrator deals with on a day-by-day basis -- dealing with hardware, installing operating systems and applications software, managing users, and handling system problems as they crop up. The assignments will be done in teams.

  1. Teams will consist of no more than three members.
  2. Team members may work together to solve the assignments.
  3. Each team member is required to keep a journal of their activities. Much of what you will learn in this course will occur through trial and error combined with hands on experience. Your journal, one for each assignment, will be used to determine whether or not you achieved some level of competency. At a minimum, the journals need to include:
    • Statement of the assignment objective.
    • Chronological diary of the assignment solution. Document the process you went through while doing this assignment. Include anecdotal material as well as explain how much effort a particularly difficult portion of the assignment took.
    • Summary statement of the lessons learned and skills gained.
    • Assignment of work effort percentages to team members. In other words you are to assign a percentage value to yourself and to the other team members such that the total equals 100%. If you feel that you contributed, say, half of the work then give yourself 50% and give the other members whatever percentage you feel is appropriate.
    • Assignment solutions are team efforts. Journals are private, individual efforts and are used to determine your grade. Do not work on your journals together!
  4. The instructor may meet with the team members on occasion to orally quiz them on the progress and understanding of the assignments.

    5. How to access your machines outside of the firewalls:

    1. telnet/ssh to xi.cs.fsu.edu
    2. "ssh -x -l gateway sysrt1" (if machines are in Majors lab)
      "ssh -x -l gateway sysrt2" (if machines are in Grad lab)
    3. Use a password of "gateway" when prompted.
    4. Enter in the IP address of the machine you wish to telnet to.