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 Turpin | 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:
34 Unix servers
26 Windows Servers
12 Netware Servers
2 VMS nodes
2 OSX server
Campus network, including gigabit backbone, and hundreds of
network switches throughout campus
Campus Email systems
Campus Internet connections, routers and remote WAN connections to
Internet, Mandeville, Livingston, Hammond, and Baton Rouge campuses.
Campus Firewalls
Network and Server security
Critical network services such as LDAP, DNS, and DHCP
Interesting facts:
SLU's Internet connection is currently a 45Mbps connection to
Bellsouth and a 12Mbps link to La.Net
We also maintain a 1.5Mbps connection to Internet2
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)
i2 traceroute
(See if a site is on Internet2)
Bigbrother
(server/network monitor)
IPaudit
(IP usage monitor)
Demarc
(Snort IDS log monitor)
ACID
(Snort IDS log monitor)
Packeteer
(Network traffic shaper)
RRDTool
(AIX/Peoplesoft usage stats)
Request SSL cert