Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Internship at Network Operating Center UCSC

During my third year second semester I was privileged to work as a Systems Administration intern. It was a time which I was exposed to work with new people with different skills and expertise.

Under the supervision of Dr. Ajantha Atukorale senior lecturer of UCSC and Mr. A. S. C. M. B. Attanayake IS manager UCSC I was directed through various tasks related to Networking and Systems administration.  

Below are the tasks which I was assigned during my internship period.
  • Task 1 -     finding a suitable Operational Solution for HP thin client PC’s which are currently abandoned from use.
  • Task 2 –     fujitsu server mounting and Installation with Mr. devana
  • Task 3 –     2nd Year Software Development Group Project Hosting Server Installation
  • Task 4 –     Install and Configure a Debian server with Gausian
  • Task 5 –     Research on how to deploy Openldap in a linux system.
  • Task 6 –     Install Zeroshell and Check for its browser compatibility.
  • Task 7 -    Library Media reference PC installation
  • Task 8 –     IEEE Extreme programming duty
  • Task 9 –     Ubuntu server 12.04 with Mooshak online examination  system for Computer Science Society Lanka
  • Task 10 –   Install a network monitoring tool in a server
  • Task 11 –   ICTER Conference technical support
  • Task 12 –   Develop and Academic Management System for Dr. Ajantha Atukorale
  • Task 13 –   Server room cable reordering and migrating VM servers into new hard disks
These Tasks evolved through technologies like
  • Monitoring Tools    - Cacti 0.8.8b, NagiOS Core, Observium
  • Operating Systems - CentOs 6.4, Debian 6.0, Esxi 5.5
  • Web Services         - Apache 2.2, MySql, PosgreSql, PHP 5, VSFTPD, Mooshak
  •  Other                    - Gausian, Vsphere, Aruba wifi controller, Hyperterminal
Click to view the final report
Final Presentation

Feasibility Study on Virtual Disk Space via Networked PCs

After some time of silence It is time for me to put up some work I did during my third year at university of Colombo School of Computing as and undergraduate of BICT.

First i would like to publish my feasibility study which I did as a prerequisite to get selected to the forth year.

It was a study on how to extract hard disk spaces from remotely and geographically separated PCs and make them useful for an Organization. This was focused on applying the results extracted in the computer laboratories of UCSC.


Download Virtual Disk Space viaNetworked PCs (NVDS) 

Learning Outcomes
  • Improved researching skills
  • Real world problem identification and solution finding
  • Research methods
  • Feasibility studying principles
  • Working with multiple supervisors