Autonetics and Administration for IT Laboratories
Vasudevan Karthikeyan, Uddhabendra Maity, Atharv Shetty, Sameer Suresh Nanivadekar, Vishal Sahebrao Badgujar · 2020
Majority of IT labs in today's academic institutions face operational issues in the management of multiple systems simultaneously. The best example would be when a particular software needs to be installed in the labs, it becomes a tedious and time consuming process for the lab assistant to manually install the software in each and every system in the lab. Also in some cases where the students forget to shutdown their respective computers, it becomes the responsibility of the lab assistant to shutdown the PCs manually. These challenges cause lack of access control and inadequate security. Moreover, there is lot of work pressure which leads to sub-optimal work schedules. To keep track of access records of the systems, we would also be designing a web-based GUI which records and displays the access information of PCs too. Thus a well thought out design for automating these various operational tasks inside the IT lab environments has been implemented and worked upon. In this paper we've discussed the roles and benefits of automating the IT labs for the students as well as lab instructors.