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category: systems administration
duration: 5 month, 1.Oct 2002 - 28.Feb 2003
part of: internship at EISA
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Action
Apps, network development, data network maintenance, documentation,
telephone system administration, Samba, DHCPd, Bind9, ntpd, MTA exim |
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There
were two major projects besides desktop support and day to day maintenance:
(1) Evaluation/Improvement - The condition of the IT infrastructure
had to be evaluated and suggestions were to be made on improvements.
After a while the telephone system was included as it was an
integral part of the infrastructure. The following improvements
were made.
-documentation and repairs of the data network
-rewiring and rearrangement of the server room
-documentation of the telephone system
-negotiation of free repairs from the telephone system service provider
-set up of a central printer spooler with Point&Print
-set up of a form mailer for the website
-set up of a linux development machine (Debian 3.1) running
-Samba emulating a NT4 domain controller (testing stage)
-caching DNS server (Bind9) with a small office
zone
-DHCP daemon (dhcpd3) for mobil clients
-ntpd and nettime on the workstations
-Apache with php4, perl5 for intranet webspace
-dbms postgresql, mysql
-final report with general vision for the IT infrastructure
(2) Action Apps - was planned to be used for website management.
A change in staff and insufficient features after a brief evaluation
(installation of aapps2.0, set up of test slice, testing) made this project
a failure or success;) depends on the point of view.
summary: "Purchasing
the wrong software is worse than purchasing nothing at all."
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