INTRUCTION TO NETWORK MANAGEMENTS

Section One: Answer all Questions (20 Marks).

Juan Enongene has been newly appointed to oversee the functioning of University of BUEAs recently installed Campus Area Network. The network currently spans the administrative building and two other faculties. These are the faculties of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Education. The physical topology consists of a LAN in each faculty and administrative building, interconnected via fiber links. Currently there is one server Room hosting 200 Servers located in the Faculty of Education. Of the 200 Servers up and running, 20 are ftp servers, 4 are web servers 4 are registration servers. The rest are yet to be allocated. This is Juans second week on the job. The first week involved working with the Engineers setting up the network and ensuring everything was configured/working to specifications. At the end of the setup a lot of documentation had been transmitted over to Juan including: - the network Diagram, a document on the IP addressing Scheme, the List of equipment, Administrative username and passwords for all network equipments, Technical documentation and the Contacts of the installation team. Today, the beginning of the Second week, Juan walked onto the office as the phone stopped ringing. It started again one minute after. This time more insistently. Juan picked up the phone, at the other end the Dean was complaining about being unable to connect to file Server 172.1.1.1. Without much ado, Juan gave him the correct address 172.1.1.10. The Dean said thanks and hung up. Juan swore silently. Could the dean not remember something as easy and an IP address? Quietly Juan sat down and began reflecting on how the network could be made easier to manage. The network had to be up and running all the time, Problems needed detected, identified and fixed, A service was needed to match network name to IP address, the network performance had to be known at all times, tracking to ensure the only valid users had to be done at all time. As the list kept getting longer he wondered how it could be done . . .

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Suggest a possible Job Title for Juan? (1 Mark) What Application/service can help Juan manage the network? (1 Mark) Name a protocol on which this application is be based? (1 Mark)

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Give two areas in which the network management software can help Juan manage the network? (2

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6. 7. 8. Give three Manual tasks which Juan needs to perform to keep the network running? (3 Marks) Name two models of network management that Juan can apply to the new network to ease management duties? ( 3 Marks) Which service can be enabled to help manage name to IP address mapping? (1 Mark) How can Juan help protect the servers against common attacks like worms and viruses? (1 Mark) Give an example domain name that Juan can use to set up the University of Bueas web site. (1

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10. Which information will Juan need to connect to one of the ftp servers remotely from another computer outside the server room? (1 Mark) 11. If you were in Juan place, mention any two things that can be done to ensure that the Dean never has to call you again for the IP address of ftp machine (2 Marks). 12. In addition to the network management system, list any three other things Juan may need help him manage the network. (3 Marks)

Section Two: Answer all Questions (20 Marks).

1. In a production Environment Name an equipment that can be used in the place of EquipmentA (1 Mark) 2. In a production environment name and equipment which can be used in place of EquipmentA (1 Mark) 3. To which port does SNMP client send information to the manager (1 Mark)
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4. To which port does the SNMP manager send information to the SNMP client (1 Mark) 5. What is the latest Version of SNMP (1 Mark) 6. At what layers of the TCP/IP model does SNMP run? (1 Mark) 7. Which Layer four protocol will SNMP use for communication? (1 Mark) 8. On which versions of SNMP are the security element sent in clear text? (1 Mark) 9. What is another name for the SNMP client Database (1 Mark)? 10. What are the contents of this database found on the SNMP client? (1 Mark) 11. What is the function of the getbulk command added in SNMP version 2c? ( 2 Marks) 12. To what organization is new OIDs registered to when a company want to include new objects to the database? (2 Marks). 13. Given SNMP and CMIP choose one to use on your network and give a reason why. (3 Marks). 14. How can the manager modify the threshold of a Routers interface Bandwidth so a notification is sent when the interface bandwidth reaches 75%? (3 Marks).

Section Three: Answer any five questions (30 Marks).

1. According to the ISO, network management can be divided into five Sections. Mention the Five Sections and explain each in not more that 4 lines. (6 Marks) 2. Using Diagram show how SNMP functions on the TCP/IP suite. Include the commands and ports. (No explanation needed 6 Marks) 3. Draw the SNMP MIB tree up to the level including private enterprise. Mention the sub tree name for Cisco and Microsoft. (6 Marks) 4. Describe in Details how a new OID can be added to the MIB tree. (6 Marks) 5. List of the 4 command used by SNMP master and explain how they function. Also explain how the SNMP client handles event notification. (6 Marks). 6. Describe SNMPv3 Security Model in Details. Also mention how this Security Model is different from the previous versions. (6 Marks)

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