Date

5-13-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Abstract

This undergraduate departmental honors capstone project experiments with and demonstrates System Administration practices that are used in enterprise environments. The skills and practices of System Administrators are crucial to maintain large-scale IT infrastructure. This project aimed to gain a deeper, practical understanding of the role of a System Administrator in an emulated environment. Through hands-on experimentation, this project addressed the responsibilities of a System Administrator, such as controlling user access, adding hardware, automating tasks, monitoring systems, overseeing and developing a backup strategy, maintaining local documentation, and security practices. This project demonstrated some of the complexities that lie in each of these processes, and goes on to explain where more potential for growth and improvement is possible. User access for a large scale environment was deployed, and automation that can scale to an arbitrary size was applied. This process successfully deepened my understanding of System Administration practices, with these systems deployed I have been able to understand how networks and tools interact in a way I haven’t been able to before.

Department

Computer Science

Thesis Committee

Dr. Margaret Black, Thesis Advisor
Dr. Katherine Nolin, Committee Member
Dr. Poonam Kumari, Committee Member

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