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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.
