Course Title: Create scripts for networking

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4299 Certificate IV in Information Technology Networking

Course Title: Create scripts for networking

Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 60

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
COSC6103C	City Campus	TAFE	155T Vocational Health and Sciences	Distance / Correspondence or Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	Term1 2012, Term2 2012, Term1 2013, Term2 2013, Term1 2014, Term2 2014, Term1 2015, Term2 2015

Course Contact: Geoff Moss

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4852

Course Contact Email: geoff.moss@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to undertake scripted programming tasks for networking related activities.

This course explores Linux and *nix through the command line, Bash scripting and Ubuntu. You will learn to work at the *nix command line, and transfer this knowledge to writing basic scripts.

Topics include
• Basic scripts, the development of writing scripts from the terminal to the script
• System security – separate user and root accounts, escalation of privileges, root via sudo su, sudo command, configuring the sudo’ers file with visudo.
• Standard permissions with owner and groups, read write and execute file permissions.
• File permissions: chmod, chown, chgrp, ls –al.
• File types, binary and text files, library files, symlinks. Compare with Windows dlls and shortcuts.
• Bash programming language, control structures. Functions, passing arguments from the command line, loops, if then, else and case statements, program return error code. Built in variables and PATH. The bash interpreter. Local variables and basic data types and manipulations with strings. Functions.
• Command line utilities relevant to networking. ps, netstat, ifconfig, ping, tail -f, htop
• *nix language in a Bash shell–mkdir, rm, cd, pushd, popd, pwd, ls, cp, mv -i, man, whoami, pipes, output redirection, echo, cat, grep, xterm &, pattern matching, “.” and “..” directories, ~, hidden files beginning with a period “.”, command line arguments, command line in scripts
• Scheduler through crontab with relative and absolute paths, logs, log files and logging messages
• vi editor skills
• *nix updates and software installation using # apt-get. In Ubuntu configuring the proxy server for apt-get update.
 

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

NiI

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	ICANWK409A Create scripts for networking
Elements:	Create code Develop algorithms to represent solutions to a given problem Document Script Test and debug code Use operating system tools

Learning Outcomes

Develope scripted programming abilities.  Develope skills in BASH. 

This course contributes to the development of the following capabilities:
• Develop shell scripts
• Using Linux at the command line
• Monitor processes by command line tools and the GUI.
• Identify and manage standard permissions
• Write a basic menu program
• Modify and testing your code
• Documenting code

Overview of Assessment

Students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of competency to be deemed competent. Skill based assessment.

A range of assessment methods are used to assess practical skills and knowledge, for example
• direct questioning combined with a review of portfolios of evidence
• review of authenticated documents from the workplace or training environment
• demonstration of techniques