CACTI

This project taught students that CACTI is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality.  CACTI collects periodical data through Net-SNMP which is an application suite to implement SNMP.  Through the CACTI Operation the students also learned how to perform data retrieval, data storage, and data…

Meta Tags

A meta tag is a special HTML tag that is included in the header of a wep page.  Meta tags provided specific information about the content on particular pages and is used by most major search engines to index websites based on their keywords and descriptions.  After learning about how meta tags were the student…

SNORT

With this student project the students were responsible for installing and testing SNORT, and open source Intrusion Detection System.  Overall, the key focus of the project was to be able to run SNORT in a Debian Linux environment which also had libpcap, libdnet, and DAQ installed. Student Team Members: Jin Hong, Robert VanHentenryck

University Department Servers

This semester the student was responsible for troubleshooting some issues with some servers.  The student had to research the beep codes and discovered that the servers were having a memory issue.  After researching the codes the student then learned how to a stick of ram by using memtest x86+ in 48GB increments. Project Student: Arend…

Laptop Program

Prior to this student project there was not a jurisdiction over what type of laptop a student should have.  However, through this project students determined that the university department should implement a mandatory program that requires students to have a laptops with the minimum required specifications.  The specifications were then posted to the department’s website…