Minutes

Minutes of the Group Meeting

held at 11.00 a.m. on Wednesday 25 February

in C27

Present: Mark Houston (project Leader), Mikolaj Choragwicki (Chairperson), Tomasz‎ Warzybok, Mark Lahn Nykjaer M. Cichonski, A. Stachon.

Matters arising from the Minutes:

1.       M. Houston stated that early implementation date was succesful. It takes more time than he expected and person responsible for the network implementation must practice a bit more as we cant spend so much time on configuration.

2.      T.  Warzybok stated that him and M. Cichonski statedt that due to some problems conected to moving the project from the packet tracer to the real machines they need more time to solve some isues.

3.       M. Choragwicki stated that he and Mathew will start to create the documentations for the bit torrent tracker and the ostinato traffic generator. They will prepare a draft report for next wendesday meeting.

4       M. Houston stated that he find some solution to the snmp traps and he will explain it more exact on next meeting after a series of test.

 

Project Leader’s Report:

Mark Houston stated that till now he is happy with the group progress and he hope that from nex week we would be able to start implementing the tcl scripts.

AOB: None.

Date of next meeting:

02.03.11 

Hey folks,
We are just about to start week 7, As discussed in the group meeting
on Wednesday I would like everyone to demo the work that they have
completed so far. So we will need to set up the network and servers.
Hopefully in doing this we will see how far everyone gotten and iron
out any issues that have occurred in the tasks. If we could maybe meet
at 9am as getting everything working may take a while.

Tasks that should be completed or mostly complete are :
Network Topology
Server Farm
Traffic Generator

Incomplete tasks are :
TCL scripting
Network Monitor
Documentation

The Network Monitor is coming along Mark and I (mainly Mark) have
gotten it to monitor the server farm services and request information
from a Switch using SNMP, sadly it's not the info that we need. Mark
also got the Event handler to work for restarting the Server Farm
services.
The Documentation needs to be started as well, as the project really
hinges on that. I will be looking for first drafts for the completed
tasks to be completed by the group meeting in week 8, the reason for
the early first drafts is so that we can read over and discuss as a
group.
If you have any questions or worries please e-mail or catch me at uni.

Thank you
Mark Houston

network configuration

Today M. Cichonski and T. Warzybok finally manage to setup our network. After consultation with Robert Ludwiniak we decide not to use vlan's.

We used EIGRP to make connection between hosts

Another thing what we have to do is access list, but first we have to discuss what access every host need.

Minutes

Minutes of the Group Meeting

held at 11.00 a.m. on Wednesday 16 February

in Room 3

Present: Mark Houston (project Leader), Mikolaj Choragwicki (Chairperson), Tomasz‎ Warzybok, Mark Lahn Nykjaer.
Matters arising from the Minutes:

1.       M. Houston stated that starting from next week we implement our project in the c27 lab on real devices and we try to connect all the small projects in to the big one.

3.       T.  Warzybok stated that him and M. Cichonski set up the network and fix the vlans problem. Until next meeting they will provide full network map and network documentation.

4.       M. Choragwicki stated that he successfully set up Bit Torrent Tracker on Linux box and its fully operating.

5.       M. Houston and M. Nykjaer fix all the problems with network monitor and its fully working now.

6.      Mark Nykjaer setup event handler so its working now thanks to that we can remotly restart the http daemon(services) he still working on getting remote access with out manually inserting root password.

Project Leader’s Report:

M. Houston rise case of adding a new group member (A. Stachon) to speed up the works with the NBAR.

AOB: None.

Date of next meeting:

23.02.11 

Network Monitor Update

Mark Nykjaer setup event handler so its working now thanks to that we can remotly restart the http daemon(services) he still working on getting remote access with out manualy inserting root password.

BitTorrent Tracker

Mikolaj Choragwicki set up bit torrent tracker(VUZE). Tracker runs on Linux Fedora Core 14. It's tested and it works correctly, all clients can download and share files. If you want to find out more about seting up bt tracker go to the tutorial used by me. Click!
Password to linux machine is tracker.

Virtual Machine Network access

Today Myself (M.Houston) and Mark Nylaer worked on the Nagios System and the web and ftp servers. Mark Found that by setting the Virtual Machines to NAT and setting up port forwarding, we could access all the services including internet from all machines.
So we now have a Fedora Web server running Apache and FTP server running VSFTPD, the Nagios appilacation can now see both servers and monitor the services running on them.

Mark is currently working on getting the Nagios event handler to restart the services if they go down.
The Web server still needs to be correctly configured and the streaming to be enabled, the FTP server needs to have user accounts and passwords set.

M.Choragwicki after setting up a traffic generator is looking into setting up a Bittorrent tracker so that we can create different traffic to monitor the effects of the QoS and Queuing system of Specific traffic types.

Minutes

Minutes of the Group Meeting

held at 11.00 a.m. on Wednesday 9 February

in Room 3

Present: Mark Houston (project Leader), Mateusz Cichonski, Mikolaj Choragwicki (Chairperson), Tomasz‎ Warzybok, Mark Lahn Nykjaer.
Matters arising from the Minutes:

1.      M. Houston stated that the Network Monitor software is working and all last week issues are resolved.

2.      M. M. Houston stated that the server farm is set up and working on 2 Linux fedora core VM images. Machines run FTPD Server and Web Server and all last week issues are resolved.

3.       T.  Warzybok stated that the Network design and the topology is done.  Now he and M. Cichonski are setting up network configuration.L3 switching issue is resolved and now they are setting up vlans.

4.       M. Choragwicki and M. Cichonski stated that they successfully set up network traffic generator (ostinato). Now they will try implement an bit torrent tracker.

5.      M. Choragwicki and M. Lahn Nykjaer decide about way they want to implement and execute tcl scripts.

Project Leader’s Report:

M. Houston stated that he’s happy of group work progress and decide to arrange next Minutes meeting for next Wednesday.  

AOB: None.

Date of next meeting:

16.02.11 

Web and FTP server

Today Tomasz and I(M.houston) looked into building the FTP and WEB servers. We created the VM images and assgined Hostnames of WEBSERVER and FTPSERVER.

The Web server is Fedora 14 running Apache 2.2, I have a very basic web page running which is accessible from the host machine via http://192.168.246.130. At the moment it is running on NAT, this will be changed to Brigded later once the Network is up and running. I still need to configure the httpconfig file to assign the domain name and virtual hosts.

I am still to investigate adding streaming media to the web page, but sadly I have forgotten almost all the web design skills learnt during the WEb Tech Module. :/

Traffic generator

Today I finally fix traffic generator issue with virtual interfaces. The software used was OSTINATO. Now its easy to create traffic between pc and virtual machine. Today afternoon I'm going to Napier University C27 class to test it on real network with real machines. I'm adding a use full link to that post so everyone can easily understand way that the OSTINATO works and find out bit more about it.
OSTINATO Click!

Topology of Network

T.Warzybok and M.Cichonski.

Today we started to build the network from the beginning, because we encountered problems resulting from use of an older version of Cisco Packet Tracer. Yesterday afternoon we spent with Matthew over the construction of a network based on VLAN. It turned out that earlier made mistakes during the broadcast IP addresses on the network. Today we started writing a short report on Friday.

Minutes 01.02.11

Minutes of the Group Meeting

held at 11.00 a.m. on Tuesday 1 February

in Room 3

Present: Mark Houston (project Leader), Mateusz Cichonski, Mikolaj Choragwicki (Chairperson), Tomasz‎ Warzybok.

Matters arising from the Minutes:

1.      M. Houston stated that the Network Monitor software is working. It runs on Linux Fedora core VM image. There is still a problem with accessing it from non host machine but it will be fix until next week.

2.      M. M. Houston stated that the server farm is set up and working on 2 Linux fedora core VM images. Machines run FTPD Server and Web Server. There is still a problem with accessing it from non host machine but it will be fix until next week.

3.       T.  Warzybok stated that the Network design and the topology is done.  Now he and M. Cichonski are setting up network configuration. There is still a problem with L3 switching but it will be fixed until the next week.

4.       T.  Warzybok stated that the Network design and the topology is done.  Now he and M. Cichonski are setting up network configuration. There is still a problem with L3 switching but it will be fixed until the next week.

5.       M. Choragwicki and M. Cichonski stated that they did a research about network traffic generator software. M. Choragwicki proposed 3 different applications. There is still a problem with traffic generation but it will be fixed until next week.

6.      M. Choragwicki and M. Lahn Nykjaer are still in research stage of TCL scripting. Research presentation planned for next week meeting.

Project Leader’s Report:

M. Houston stated that he’s happy of group work progress and decide to arrange next Minutes meeting for next Wednesday.  He also recalls that we need to prepare PID.

AOB: None.

Date of next meeting:

09.02.11