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| Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines | |
| Unit Code | MN506 |
| Unit Title | System Management |
| Term, Year | Trimester 1, 2021 |
| Assessment Type |
Individual Assignment |
| Assessment Title |
Assignment 1 – Network/Server performance monitoring tools |
| Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) |
This assignment is designed to assess students’ knowledge and skills related to the following learning outcomes: a. Analyse and compare various server management systems; b. Compare emerging tools and techniques for system management |
| Weight | 10% |
| Total Marks | 100 |
| Word limit | Assignment 1 Part A – (500 words) Assignment 1 Part B (N/A) |
| Due Date | Assignment 1 Part A: Week 3 (Sunday, 11/04/2021 at 11:59PM) – Weight 3% Assignment 1 Part B: Week 7 (Wednesday, 05/05/2021 at 11:59PM) – Weight 7% |
| Submission Guidelines |
All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a title Page. The submission must contain the video link of student’s work, as per instructions in this document. |
| Extension | If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Consideration Application must be submitted online to AMS follow the link below you may require to login. You must submit this application three working days prior to the due date of the assignment. https://online.mit.edu.au/ams/PublicDocs/Student/MIT_Special_Consideration_Application.pdf |
| Academic Misconduct |
Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness of the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to exclusion from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make themselves familiar with the full policy and procedure available at:http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies procedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-Misconduct-Policy-Procedure.For further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity Section in your Unit Description. |
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Assignment Description
Assignment 1 – Part A (Weight 3%)
Question 1: Network Administration
In your own words and from your reading, list what you think are the three most important responsibilities of
a System Administrator, and the three least important. Give relevant reasons for your choices. As you aware
of Network Administrators, usually use lots of IT jargon terms such as (Clone, Snapshot and Copy. e.g. copy
your Linux virtual machine) discuss and briefly explain the difference between the three approaches.
[15 Marks]
Question 2: Linux (digital certificates)
Your IT manager at work asked you to re-new a digital certificate for Apache web server on Ubuntu 16.04 and
the task had been completed successfully. Based on your successful experience with Ubuntu, discuss and
briefly explain the advantages and disadvantages of both self-signed and authority-issued digital certificates
for web servers. This must be properly referenced and be in your own words – do not just copy a table from
somewhere. [15 Marks]
Assignment 1 – Part B (Weight 7%)
This assignment requires you to test, analyse, and compare any two (2) of the monitoring tools listed in Table1.
Marks will be awarded according to:
(i) depth of exploration and explanation of features, and
(ii) quality of evaluation and comparison of the chosen tools.
Table 1: Monitoring tools (Choose any two) for Assignment 1B
(Note: This assignment includes more tools from LINUX OS, however, in Assignment 2, more choices
of tasks based on Windows OS will be included.)
| Tool | Description | OS |
| lsof | Monitoring for Linux environment Use “sudo apt-get install” to install the tool (Consult Lab 4 manual for application installation on Linux) |
Linux |
| atop | Monitoring for Linux environment (Consult Lab 4 manual for application installation on Linux) |
Linux |
| powertop | Monitoring for Linux environment (Consult Lab 4 manual for application installation on Linux) |
Linux |
| nmon | Monitoring for Linux environment (Consult Lab 4 manual for application installation on Linux) |
Linux |
| iotop | Monitoring for Linux environment (Consult Lab 4 manual for application installation on Linux) |
Linux |
| glances | Monitoring for Linux environment (Consult Lab 4 manual for application installation on Linux) |
Linux |
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| iftop | Monitoring for Linux environment (Consult Lab 4 manual for application installation on Linux) |
Linux |
| sensu | Open source alerting system. https://sensuapp.org/docs/latest/platforms/sensu-on microsoft-windows.html |
Windows OS |
| logman | Command line tool to create and manage event trace session & performance logs. https://technet.microsoft.com/en us/library/cc753820(v=ws.11).aspx |
Windows OS |
For this question you are required to complete the following tasks, and make a 7-8 min video
presentation as per instructions below:
1. Download, install, and use any two (2) of the monitoring tools from Table 1. If you choose Linux tools,
you can boot the computer using Kali Linux, or access it in VirtualBox. Explore in-depth the utility provided
by the tools and how these tools can be used by System Administrators. This requires you to carry out
research, and explore the features with your installed tools.
2. Record your experience in a video clip. The video must include the following:
a. Outline of your presentation.
b. Demonstration in detail via narration of your actions in a recorded video to include:
(i) Accessing the tool,
(ii) Showing how to use your chosen features of each tool,
(iii) What the feature is used for, and
(iv) How information provided by the feature can be used by the System Administrator to
manage the system effectively. This must include 2 features or functionality of each tool (2
features per tool x 2 tools= a total of 4 features or functions).
c. Include in your discussion comparing the two tools covering the usability and
functionality/usefulness of the features/tools to the System Administrator.
d. Summarise your experience at the end of the video.
e. You should appear in the video at the beginning and last 30 seconds to introduce yourself and
draw a conclusion on your experience of the tools respectively (other parts of the video may
show your actions on screen, as per description above).
Length of Video: Introduction (30 secs approximately, your appearance should be in the video) + Outline of
the presentation (30 secs approximately) + Demonstration of the task (4-5 minutes) + Discussion (1 minute
approximately) + Conclusion (15 secs approximately, with appearance).
You may use your mobile phone to record the video, or use any of the available open source software for
screen/video capture. Please find the following as an example software for video capturing:
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Software: https://obsproject.com/
Submission Guidelines:
1. Name your video with your student ID and name.
2. Upload Video on your YouTube account (if you do not already have one, please create one).
3. In a Word document, write your name, ID, names of tools explored, and paste your YouTube video link.
Submit this document on Moodle by due date.
To upload your video on YouTube, you must create your account on YouTube if you do not have one already.
If you have a google account, you already have a YouTube account. Your video must be of one of the following
formats: .MOV, .MPEG4, MP4, .AVI, .WMV, .MPEGPS, .FLV, .3GPP, and .WebM. Once you have an account, to
upload your video, click on the ‘upload’ button located at the top right-hand corner of your youtube.com
webpage or YouTube App. You need to copy+paste your YouTube video URL (or obtain your video URL from
the App) in the Word document for you to submit on Moodle, and your marker to be able to watch and mark
your assignment! Make sure your video plays without any issues when you paste the video URL on a web
browser. Note that assignments will not be marked if the video does not play on a web browser using the URL
provided in the submitted document on Moodle.
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Marking criteria: Marks are allocated as follows:
| Sections | Description | Marks |
| Assignment 1 Part A | (Sunday, 11/04/2021 at 11:59PM) – Weight 3% | |
| Question 1: Network Administration |
what you think are the three most important responsibilities of a System Administrator, and the three least important. Give relevant reasons for your choices. (Clone, Snapshot and Copy. e.g. copy your Linux virtual machine) discuss and briefly explain the difference between the three approaches. |
15 |
| Question 2: Linux (digital certificates) |
advantages and disadvantages of both self-signed and authority-issued digital certificates for web servers. |
15 |
| Assignment 1 Part A – Total Marks | 30 | |
| Assignment 1 Part B | (Wednesday, 05/05/2021 at 11:59PM) – Weight 7% | |
| Video Presentation Component | Description | Marks |
| Introduction/Outline of presentation |
Introduce yourself, the purpose, and outline of the presentation. |
5 |
| Demonstrate in detail via narration and recording of your actions in video |
This must include: (i) Demonstration of, execution of the tool (ii) Illustration of usage of identified features of each tool. (iii) Explanation of the purpose of the usage of the feature (iv) Discussions on how the information provided by the feature is useful to the System Administrator This is to be done for 2 features for each of the 2 tools (2*2=4 features). 4 features * 5 marks for each feature=20 Marks |
20 |
| Comparison of the tools | This must cover the functionality as well as usefulness of the tools to the System Administrator. (2 tools * 5 Marks= 10 Marks) |
10 |
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| Summarisation | Conclude your presentation with a summary of your experience of using the tools |
5 |
| Appearance in the video | You should appear in the video at the beginning and last 30 seconds to introduce yourself and draw a conclusion on your experience with the tools |
5 |
| In-lab Component | Description | Marks |
| Viva Voce (oral examination) | Lab instructor will assess your understanding of work done for this assignment. This will be done during Week-7 lab session. Being absent during the demo without a special consideration application submitted and granted will result in zero marks for this component |
25 |
| Assignment 1 Part B – Total Marks | 70 | |
| Assignment 1 (Part A + Part B) Total Marks | 100 |
Marking Rubric
| Grade Mark |
HD 80%+ |
D 70%-79% |
CR 60%-69% |
P 50%-59% |
Fail <50 |
| Excellent | Very Good | Good | Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | |
| Assignment 1 Part A – Weight 3% | |||||
| Question 1: Network Administration /15 |
very well written with very clear explanation of the technical differences |
well written with clear explanation of the technical differences |
generally presented with clear explanation of the technical differences |
presented briefly with some relevance and missing some of the technical differences |
Poorly presented with irrelevant details |
| Question 2: Linux (digital certificates) /15 |
In-depth and very clear discussion about the importance of text editors and files in Linux |
Very clear discussion about the importance of text editors and files in Linux |
Generally good discussion about the importance of text editors and files in Linux |
Brief discussion about the importance of text editors and files in Linux |
Poor discussion about the importance of text editors and files in Linux |
| Assignment 1 Part B – Weight 7% | |||||
| Introduction/Outli ne of presentation /5 |
Appearance is clear, and Introduction is easy to follow, very well prepared and professional |
Appearance is clear, and Introduction is easy to follow, well prepared and professional |
Appearance is clear, and introduction is understandable |
Makes an appearance and provides an introduction. |
Does not make an appearance in the video at the start of video and/or introduction is not well prepared |
| Demonstrate in detail via narration and recording of your actions in |
The demonstration is extremely well done, and it is very clear and |
The demonstration is very well done, and it is clear and easy to follow. |
The demonstration is well done, and it is easy to follow but there is room for |
Demonstration is mostly well done but some parts are not very easy to follow. |
Tasks have not been demonstrated properly (difficult to follow) |
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| Grade Mark |
HD 80%+ |
D 70%-79% |
CR 60%-69% |
P 50%-59% |
Fail <50 |
| video /20 |
easy to follow. | improvement. | |||
| Comparison of the tools /10 |
Very clear comparison with valid justification and very easy to follow |
Clear comparison with some justification and easy to follow |
Clear comparison with some justification but needs improvement. |
Some comparison is there but the justification is not very strong. |
The comparison is very poorly done. |
| Summarisation /5 |
A very powerful summarisation with concrete information of findings |
Very Good summarisation |
Good summarisation |
Summarisation provided but needs improvement with concrete information |
No or very poor summarisation provided |
| Appearance in the video /5 |
Excellent appearance covering the first and last 30 seconds to introduce yourself and draw an excellent conclusion on your experience with the tools |
Appearance covering the first and last 30 seconds to introduce yourself and draw a good conclusion on your experience with the tools |
Adequate appearance and coverage of information at the start and end of video |
Appearance made at the start and end of video but insufficient information covered during the appearances. |
Barely appeared or no appearance |
| In-Lab Component | |||||
| Viva Voce (oral examination) /25 |
Excellent understanding of tools demonstrated by questions and answers. |
Good understanding of tools demonstrated by questions and answers. |
Adequate understanding of tools demonstrated by questions and answers. |
Understanding of tools demonstrated by questions and answers needs improvement. |
Poor or no understanding of tools demonstrated by questions and answers. |
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