Principles of Network and System Administration

Mark Burgess

John Wiley & Sons, Dec 10, 2007 - Computers - 646 pages

A single, comprehensive resource that responds to the high demand for specialists who can provide advice to users and handle day-to-day administration, maintenance, and support of computer systems and networksAuthor approaches both network and system administration from the perspective of the principles that do not change on a day-to-day basisShows how to discover customer needs and then use that information to identify, interpret, and evaluate system and network requirementsNew coverage includes Java services and Ipv6

Contents

• 1 Introduction: 1
• 2 System components: 11
• 3 Networked communities: 75
• 4 Host management: 109
• 5 User management: 147
• 6 Models of network and system administration: 195
• 7 Configuration and maintenance: 235
• 8 Diagnostics fault and change management: 281
• 9 Applicationlevel services: 331
• 10 Networklevel services: 391
• 11 Principles of security: 423
• 12 Security implementation: 453
• 13 Analytical system administration: 499
• 14 Summary and outlook: 539
• A Some useful Unix commands: 543
• B Programming and compiling: 549
• C Example telnet session: 581
• D Glossary: 591
• E Recommended reading: 597
• Bibliography: 599
• Index: 623

About the author

Mark Burgess obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1990. He held a Royal Society fellowship at the University of Oslo from 1991 to 1992 and then had a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Norwegian Research Council. Since 1994 he has been an associate professor at Oslo University College. Dr Burgess has been invited to lecture at universities and institutes throughout the world, and has published numerous articles, as well as five previous books.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Principles of Network and System Administration
• Author: Mark Burgess
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2007
• ISBN: 0470298227, 9780470298220
• Length: 646 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Networking / General