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BenFranske: /* VoIP, Security Systems and Analog Devices */

2014-02-01T03:31:56Z

VoIP, Security Systems and Analog Devices

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	===Introduction===		===Introduction===
	Many businesses and individuals are transitioning to VoIP systems in an effort to reduce costs and increase flexibility. One area which is often forgotten about are the numerous devices around the home or business which rely on the voice bandwidth of traditional POTS lines for communications. These often include things such as credit card terminals, fax machines, computer modems, and security systems. This project will explore how to make these types of devices function over VoIP networks with varying amounts of available bandwidth. In addition you will explore using VoIP to extend existing POTS lines over an IP network to these types of devices.		Many businesses and individuals are transitioning to VoIP systems in an effort to reduce costs and increase flexibility. One area which is often forgotten about are the numerous devices around the home or business which rely on the voice bandwidth of traditional POTS lines for communications. These often include things such as credit card terminals, fax machines, computer modems, and security systems. This project will explore how to make these types of devices function over VoIP networks with varying amounts of available bandwidth. In addition you will explore using VoIP to extend existing POTS lines over an IP network to these types of devices.

			===Description===
			The Minnesota Streetcar Museum has two buildings near Lake Harriet in Minneapolis. A carbarn is located about a quarter mile from a depot. At present neither location has Internet access and both locations have phone lines. In the near future Internet access will be added to one of the two locations and a wired 100mbps or better LAN will link the two locations. In an effort to achieve some cost reduction they would like to explore eliminating one of the phone lines. The phone lines are essential for the separate security and fire alarm systems for each building which communicate back to a central monitoring company using data modems over the phone lines. The thought is that if VoIP can be proven to carry analog modem connections over the private LAN link between buildings back to the one remaining phone line the two security systems could share that line.

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	* Develop a recommendation on the best choice based on constraints		* Develop a recommendation on the best choice based on constraints
	* Prepare a written whitepaper and oral presentation detailing the process, criteria, results, and recommendation		* Prepare a written whitepaper and oral presentation detailing the process, criteria, results, and recommendation

	==Dual WAN Internet Access==		==Dual WAN Internet Access==
	===Introduction===		===Introduction===

BenFranske at 01:38, 15 January 2014

2014-01-15T01:38:45Z

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 * Install and test a minimum of three solutions
 * Develop a recommendation on the best choice based on department constraints
 * Prepare a written whitepaper and oral presentation detailing the process, criteria, results, and recommendation
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 ===Deliverables===
 * Design and implement a test network environment which mimics an analog modem based device communicating via VoIP
 * Research a variety of options and select a minimum of three promising configurations for testing
 * Develop criteria for evaluating the options

BenFranske at 01:06, 15 January 2014

2014-01-15T01:06:01Z

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 ===Deliverables===
 * Design and implement a test network environment which mimics a dual DSL configuration
 * Research a variety of options and select a minimum of three promising configurations for testing
 * Develop criteria for evaluating the options
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 * Prepare a written whitepaper and oral presentation detailing the process, criteria, results, and recommendation
 ==Network Intrusion Prevention==
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 * Prepare a written whitepaper and oral presentation detailing the process, criteria, results, and recommendation
-=Taken Projects=
+==VoIP, Security Systems and Analog Devices==
-All projects are currently available.
+===Introduction===

BenFranske: /* Logfile Collection and Analysis */

2014-01-14T21:48:42Z

Logfile Collection and Analysis

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	===Resources===		===Resources===
	Software programs you may want to evaluate in this space are:		Software programs you may want to evaluate in this space are:
	* ~~Software 1~~		* Logstash
	* ~~Software 2~~		* Fluentd
	* ~~Software 3~~		* Nxlog
			* Graylog2
			* LOGalyze
			* Octopussy
			* SNARE
			* OSSEC
			* syslog-ng
	You may research and evaluate other programs as well. Programs should be able to collect logs from our wide variety of host OSs and devices for central monitoring. Strong preference should be given to free and open source packages as we are a resource constrained department.		You may research and evaluate other programs as well. Programs should be able to collect logs from our wide variety of host OSs and devices for central monitoring. Strong preference should be given to free and open source packages as we are a resource constrained department.
	===Deliverables===		===Deliverables===

BenFranske at 21:43, 14 January 2014

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 * OpenNAC
 * FreeNAC
 You may research and evaluate other programs/devices as well. Strong preference should be given to free and open source packages as we are a resource constrained department.
 ===Deliverables===

BenFranske at 21:36, 14 January 2014

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 * Build and test a minimum of three solutions
 * Develop a recommendation on the best choice based on constraints
 * Prepare a written whitepaper and oral presentation detailing the process, criteria, results, and recommendation
 =Taken Projects=
 All projects are currently available.

BenFranske at 21:23, 14 January 2014

2014-01-14T21:23:34Z

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 ===Deliverables===
 * Design and implement a test network environment which mimics a dual DSL configuration
 * Research a variety of options and select a minimum of three promising configurations for testing
 * Develop criteria for evaluating the options

BenFranske at 21:14, 14 January 2014

2014-01-14T21:14:34Z

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=Logfile Collection and Analysis=
==Introduction==
The Inver Hills ITC department has an academic, demonstration, and research network ("ITCnet") which is comprised of a number of physical and virtual hosts running various operating systems including several versions of Windows server and desktop, several Linux distributions, vmWare host servers, and BSD along with network devices from Cisco and HP. In an effort to better understand and track what's happening on this network a number of monitoring tools have been implemented over the past year including Nagios and Cacti which can poll SNMP and service availability data from these various systems and devices. We'd like to take this to the next step by centralizing log file collection and analysis and allowing us to use a single program or web portal for viewing log events across all these devices.
==Resources==
Software programs you may want to evaluate in this space are:
* Software 1
* Software 2
* Software 3
You may research and evaluate other programs as well. Programs should be able to collect logs from our wide variety of host OSs and devices for central monitoring. Strong preference should be given to free and open source packages as we are a resource constrained department.
==Deliverables==
* Design and implement a test environment for logfile collection and analysis which includes the wide variety of hosts and network devices which may generate logging
* Install and test a minimum of three logfile collection and analysis packages
* Develop criteria for evaluating the packages
* Develop a recommendation on the best choice based on department constraints
* Prepare a written whitepaper and oral presentation detailing the process, criteria, results, and recommendation

=SAN Benchmarking=
==Introduction==
There are a number of different schemes for connecting remote storage to hosts over a network infrastructure. In this project you will setup and benchmark several popular methods of doing this and report on the results. The primary SAN technology you will be working with is iSCSI. The SAN servers, referred to as iSCSI "targets", may be Windows servers, basic Linux servers, or specialized SAN servers or devices. Furthermore these may be configured as direct block access to a physical device such as a hard drive or as a virtual hard drive file residing on top of a physical drive and filesystem. The clients, referred to as iSCSI "initiators", may be vmWare servers, Windows servers or desktops, or Linux servers or desktops. As you can see there are many variables which can exist in even a simple iSCSI system. Your job is to setup a number of different configurations and benchmark them for ease of setup, speed, and other factors which you determine and report on the results.
==Resources==
* ITC Department FreeNAS SAN Server
* Windows Storage Servers
* Client Servers/PCs
* ITCnet network backbone
* Possible vendor SAN hardware
You may research and evaluate other programs as well.
==Deliverables==
* Design and implement a test environment for iSCSI which includes a variety of initiators and targets
* Develop criteria for evaluating iSCSI performance and define test environment, benchmarking software and settings, etc.
* Prepare a written whitepaper and oral presentation detailing the process, criteria, and results

=Virtualization Orchestration=
==Introduction==
There are a number of different schemes for connecting remote storage to hosts over a network infrastructure. In this project you will setup and benchmark several popular methods of doing this and report on the results. The primary SAN technology you will be working with is iSCSI. The SAN servers, referred to as iSCSI "targets", may be Windows servers, basic Linux servers, or specialized SAN servers or devices. Furthermore these may be configured as direct block access to a physical device such as a hard drive or as a virtual hard drive file residing on top of a physical drive and filesystem. The clients, referred to as iSCSI "initiators", may be vmWare servers, Windows servers or desktops, or Linux servers or desktops. As you can see there are many variables which can exist in even a simple iSCSI system. Your job is to setup a number of different configurations and benchmark them for ease of setup, speed, and other factors which you determine and report on the results.
==Resources==
* ITC Department FreeNAS SAN Server
* Windows Storage Servers
* Client Servers/PCs
* ITCnet network backbone
* Possible vendor SAN hardware
You may research and evaluate other programs as well.
==Deliverables==
* Design and implement a test environment for iSCSI which includes a variety of initiators and targets
* Develop criteria for evaluating iSCSI performance and define test environment, benchmarking software and settings, etc.
* Prepare a written whitepaper and oral presentation detailing the process, criteria, and results