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System Management Assignment - Design, Installation and Configure Enterprise Network Servers

Learning Outcomes - This assignment is designed to assess students' knowledge and skills related to the following learning outcomes:

a. Analyse human usability in systems and documentation within the context of constantly changing modern industry requirements.

b. Plan and implement various application servers for an organisation.

Assignment Description - Choose one (1) requirement scenario given in the list below. Assume that your group has been hired by the client company to develop a networked system for their required services as described in your chosen scenario. Your task in this assignment is to analyse client requirements, design the solutions, implement, configure, and troubleshoot implemented solutions, and finally to prepare a system documentation report meeting the client requirements and following a standard industry template. Detailed requirements are provided below:

1. For your chosen scenario, (i) analyse client requirements, (ii) identify and propose the required servers and server roles (services), and (iii) provide required configurations for your chosen scenario.

2. Perform the configurations using either virtually or physically installed server OS to realise the scenario. Students can use Windows Server 2008 or a higher version, or Linux server if appropriate, which will depend on the scenario chosen. Your submission should include screenshots of each important step.

3. Prepare a detailed system documentation report to cover your work done in steps 1 and 2 above, using a standard template. You have the freedom to create a template, with company name, logo, etc., for your client and use that for your documentation report. This report will serve as an important part of backup and disaster recovery documentation for the organisation in your chosen scenario, and can be used for training new IT staff in the organisation. As such, you must consider human usability factors and include the configurations using description of each important step, and screenshots corresponding to those in a way that will be useful to the target users of the document. Essential sections of the documentation are provided in the marking guide, however, you can include additional sections if deemed useful.

You must configure the domain(s) using group members' names (e.g., sajeen-joy-sam). If the chosen scenario requires a web server, the group must create a simple webpage (using html header tag only) to display the student ID numbers of the group members, which needs to be stored on and displayed from the created IIS (web server). This documentation report (one report per group) is to be submitted on Moodle in Week-11.

4. Use your configured system to demonstrate individually the implemented scenario during your week-12 lab. Individual understanding will be tested during your demonstration.

Scenarios (Choose one only for your group to work on): Please choose scenario 2 and work on that and prepare PPT slides also.

Scenario 1: Local Area Network (LAN) to support Windows Server and Client Environment

Scenario 2: Local Area Network (LAN) to support Windows Sever and Linux Client Environment

With the growing base of users of Linux, People Software, a software company which was planning to create a Windows server based LAN decided to also support Linux clients to authenticate using the Active Directory. The company has three different departments named Operations, Finance and Marketing. All objects (e.g., users, computers, etc.) belong to these departments should have their own different OU. The Clients require the following technologies to be implemented within their LAN:

1. The company requires a centralised user authentication support for Linux clients

2. All computers should acquire IP addresses from a server

3. The Company should host a website through their own server

4. There should be hardware virtualisation platform

Scenario 3: Setting up technology/features for Linux Server and Windows Client Environment

Sections to be included in the report -

1. Introduction - Introduces the purpose of the documentation report, and a clear road map of the report (which section presents which topic).

2. Requirement Analysis and identification of server roles & technologies - Analysis of requirements, clear identification & listing of server roles/features/technologies needed for realising the scenario.

3. Configuration process description - All steps are described for the implementation of each identified technology/feature/server role(s). Description refers to corresponding diagrams /screenshots using figure numbers. Description is clear and easy to follow.

4. Configuration screenshots or commands - Screenshots of commands and GUI configurations for each identified technology/feature are provided using labelled diagrams with caption.

5. Summary - Summary of all configuration performed.

6. Demonstrations - Demonstrate the understanding of the system implemented on a virtual or real system, and/or the report.

7. Conclusion - Conclusion of what has been achieved in this assignment.

8. Reference style - All resources referenced properly using IEEE format.

Attachment:- Assignment File.rar