Systems Engineering
The mission of the SLU Systems Engineering Office is to maintain and enhance the server operating system and user environments of the campus network and provide software support for the campus local area networks.
Name/Email |
Title |
Specialty |
| Ray DeJean | Systems Engineering Coordinator | Network design, Unix Administration IBM Certified Specialist - AIX System Administration, AIX System Support |
| Mark Hemel |
Network Specialist | VMS Administration, Email Administration |
| Becky Hornbuckle | Systems Administrator | Netware/Windows Administration |
| Russell Barger | Network Support Specialist | Network design, Administration, and Wireless |
| Angela Barger | Systems Administrator |
Netware/Windows Administration |
The Systems Engineering group are the employees behind the scenes that
take care of things most people never see. Chances are if something seems
broken, we're already working to fix it. Our current list of
responsibilities includes:
Server operating systems such as Linux, AIX/Unix, Windows, Netware, VMS, OSX, and VMWare
Campus network, including fiber backbone, and hundreds of
network switches throughout campus
Wireless networks
Residential networks
Campus Email systems and Google Apps integrations
Campus Internet connections, routers and remote WAN connections to
Internet, Mandeville, Livingston, Hammond, and Baton Rouge campuses.
Campus Firewalls, traffic shapers, load balancers, and security appliances
Storage area networks
Network and Server security
Critical network services such as LDAP, DNS, and DHCP
Virtual server infrastructure
Interesting facts:
Southeastern's Internet connection is currently a 140Mbps connection to
LONI and a 10Mbps backup connection to AT&T.
We also maintain Internet2 connectivity through LONI.
The IBM database server has 16 processors, 16 gigs of RAM, 1 terabyte of
disk space, and runs AIX.
The VMS cluster has been operational non-stop since 1990.
The 3com core network switches are capable switching 360 gigabits per
second.
Utilities
MRTG
(view router statistics)
Bigbrother
(server/network monitor)
IPaudit
(IP usage monitor)
Demarc
(Snort IDS log monitor)