Network Systems and Administration Assignment

This is an individual assignment delivered as a portfolio with block tasks assigned. You are required to deliver a set of networking services in a fully operational environment using Linux Virtual machines of your choice.

You are also required to demonstrate your work to the unit staff, during the practical sessions.

Assignment Description -

You are an IT consultancy firm that is responsible for designing, implementing and configuring network systems. Your task is to design, implement and configure a working system consisting of a client and a server. The server will be a Linux virtual machine based on a distro of your own choice. The client machine is another Linux virtual machine that must be of a different distro than that used for the main server. Your task is to implement a network using VMware Workstation or VirtualBox an enterprise network server with a number of essential services running on it and providing the client with the necessary access to these services. Some additional services must be configured.

You are required to install, configure and demonstrate the full operation of the server and client access to the resources based on virtualised machines that must be built from scratch. No pre-built VMs will be accepted.

A brief description of the requirements is given below:

PORTFOLIO DELIVERABLES

Block Task 1 - Your Linux server must be statically assigned an IP address in the segment 172.16.114.0/24 with the Windows client being able to communicate with the server. A DHCP and DNS server should be running on your Linux box. Your domain name must be: your_surname.local. Your servers must be fully tested from the client and server sides. All administration work should be clearly documented and added to Task 4 along with the appropriate justifications and citations as required in that task.

Block Task 2 - A directory service using an LDAP implementation is installed, configured with a number of users, groups, organisational units (OUs), and shared folders to mimic an enterprise server. The server should be provide the client with the necessary access to the directory service through its search features. Full testing of all user accounts, groups, OUs, and shared folders containing some documents should be carried out from the client side. All administration work should be clearly documented and added to Task 4 along with the appropriate justifications and citations as required in that task.

Block Task 3 - Install and fully configure a RADIUS server to provide remote access to clients wanting to connect to the directory server in order to work on documents stored in the shared folders. Your server must be fully tested from the client side. All administration work should be clearly documented and added to Task 4 along with the appropriate justifications and citations as required in that task.

Block Task 4 - Write an individual report with all the steps followed to complete the block tasks above. You should provide as much as details as possible in a system administration manner for each service installed and configured in your environment. Use the appropriate diagrams/screenshots to support your work along with details of what is presented in each one of them. All your configurations should be fully justified making sure that any commands issued and appropriate changes to configuration files are fully detailed, commented, and justified.

Attachment:- Assignment.rar