Reference no: EM132354176

ASSESSMENT: CASE STUDY

SCENARIO

You are working as an IT System & Network Engineer at Perfect Technology. You have been given a project to design a server to a new customer called First Couriers Pty Ltd.

First Couriers Pty Ltd is a courier service agency. Currently First Couriers has got 2 Oracle Linux servers (one in each office) and two network printers. Management is planning to open two new branches in Werribee & Thomastown and planning to have 5 more computers and a Printer each.

Each of the Werribee and Thomastown sites will have a network switch to provide interconnection to all the devices within each office, and a WAN link of 1 Gbps will be used to link the two sites together. You have been told that there are ports available on both switches to connect a server if required. Spare network cables are also available, so these do not need to be purchased. You have also been told that the new server should be located in the Werribee office, as there are more employees connecting in at the Werribee office

The management wants to make IT management simple since they don't have a full-time IT support officer. Mr. Jones, the First Couriers Office Manager, has been designated as the customer contact for you do discuss specific requirements. Mr. Jones has also made it clear that the implementation budget for this new server is $10,000 (includes both hardware, software, and labour costs). Mr Jones will be the person who will arrange your access to the site, and the client person who will sign your work off once you have completed the installation of the server. You will need to confirm any out-of-hours access to the site you require with Mr. Jackson, the facilities manager, who is responsible for physical security for the site overall.

You have costed your labour costs at $2000, and your software licensing costs at $2000. That leaves $6,000) for server hardware. Preliminary analysis by your colleagues has identified the Dell Power Edge T440 Tower Server as a good fit for First Courier.

First Couriers also has 500 GB of data on their old Windows 2008 servers, and they want to make sure that they can migrate that data onto the new servers. They will keep the old Windows 2008 servers, but they want to make sure they will not lose any data in the migration exercise.

First Couriers has approached Perfect Technology to provide a solution to manage their IT needs easily.

You as an IT System Engineer must prepare a design report and submit it to First Couriers for their feedback. Once the client agreed to the design, you will have to install and setup the servers.

First Couriers are very security conscious and want to know what security measures exist in the server to secure their environment.

First Couriers are also very safety conscious and want to make sure all work on their servers is done in a way that is consistent with all applicable workplace health and safety requirements. You should also explain how any risks encountered in implementing the server will be managed.

First Courier currently run a MySQL server application and want to know whether this will run on the new server.

First Courier want to be able to monitor hardware resource usage by the server, and to be able to sop and start network services as needed. They are unsure as to whether they need a third-party application for this and would like your advice.

In your design report, you must propose to implement a Windows domain network and run a local active directory server with DHCP, DNS, File Server and other services. You also need to provide details of server applications compatibility issues and resolution procedures.

FOLLOWING TASKS MUST BE DONE TO FINISH THE DESIGN REPORT

1. Identify the client, and verify the requirements that the client has expressed in this case study

2. Address the business problems, opportunities, scope, objectives and budget. (For this task, you should write down what you believe the key business problem to address is with the server installation, and also think how you would orally question/confirm this with Mr. Jones (as your trainer will question you about this in the classroom or labs).

3. Specify the server specifications.

4. Specify the required network services.

5. List the server applications

6. Identify and document server applications compatibility issues and resolution procedures

7. List the security requirements, including authentication and authorization.

8. Plan and explain redundancies.

9. Produce the installation check list.

10. Identify any required third-party applications that are required to meet the customer requirements

11. Describe how the new server will be implemented, and whether any prototyping of the solution will be done. You should also produce a design of your server implementation, documenting which services will be installed on the server

12. Analyse and describe data migration methods required for the client.

13. Develop test plans to check system requirement

14. Develop test plan to check the performance

15. Describe how you will ensure the work is completed according to WHS requirements, including any risk management procedures needed

16. Explain the work sign-off procedure to the customer, including any cleanup required of the worksite and handover procedures

17. Describe a backup and restore strategy for the server

18. Describe how you will liaise with the customer representative and other personnel to gain access to the site

19. Describe how the server will be connected to the existing network