Instructions

Write 500 words for each of the discussion questions 1, 2, and documentation of question 3.

You should provide credible references for every question according to the Faculty of Business guidelines.

Tasks:

Question 1:

Provide protection and redundancy methods for a Linux system that hosting SSH, Web Server and database services. Your methods need to align and address each of these services with reliability, maintainability, and availability network services design.

Question 2:

Your online Content Management System (CMS) server is running on tcp/22 for ssh, tcp/80 and tcp/443 for httpd, and tcp/3306 for MySQL services. Discuss methods would you use when these services have been promised.

Question 3:

As Unix/Linux system Administrator, you are required to backup the company's MySQL database and /home/users folder on daily and monthly basis. In conjunction with the schedule use cron and/or crond services to backup this database and an indicated folder above with the following conditions:

a. Database name: your_student_id; 11563196

b. The weekly backup job runs from Monday to Friday at 9:50 PM and monthly job runs on the first day of each month at 10:00 PM;

c. For security reasons, this backup job should run under other username instead of root username.

Rationale

able to setup and security basic services in Linux system;

understand how protect and make a recovery Linux services in scenario of security compromised;

able to demo in real time of how the system setup, run, and manage;

applying perl, bash, or python script in system implementation and automation tasks.