Managing IT Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Networking Project

This report outlines a networking project focused on network administration architecture and IT infrastructure management. It emphasizes the need for network configuration to enhance security, reduce errors, and facilitate easier upgrades and repairs. The report details the importance of network administration processes, including documentation and task-specific information. It introduces a guide for managing IT infrastructure, dividing it into system, network, and storage management. The guide also covers documentation types like topology diagrams and hardware lists, migration steps including SSO server configuration and network evaluation, and project plan implementation with timelines and resource budgeting. Open-source software options are suggested due to federal funding limitations. The project's scheduling, timeline, and milestones, such as quicker registration processes and improved customer satisfaction, are also highlighted. The project requires additional funding.

NETWORKING
PROJECT

Network administration
architecture
• The need of network configuration
are as follows:
• Better network security provided.
• Reduces errors.
• Process like upgrading, repairing and
expanding network can be done
easily.
• Facilitate identification of change
within network.
• Reduces downtime within the system.

Importance of network administration
process and procedures guide
• Detailed outline is provided for
every activities
• Documentation is being prepared
and stored from starting to ending
• Information related to each task is
provided
• Complete illustration is provided
for performing the migration

Network administration process for managing IT
infrastructure
• The guide developed will help the user
with detailed explanation about the
ESCG and will help in providing better
network infrastructure. According to the
guide, the recommended ESCG is
divided into three categories:
• System management
• Network management
• Storage management

Better documentation is
provided
• The guide has explained in detail the
different type of documents available and
will help the ESCG to develop its features.
This includes:
• Topology diagram for network
• Policy associated with network
• List of hardware
• Documentation for the Active directory
• Labeling
• Documentation related to backup procedures

Migration steps
• There are several best practices that can be implemented
within ECSG for performing the migration. These steps will
lead to successful completion of migration, this includes:
• Configure the SSO servers,
• Networking Routing
• Network evaluation
• Configuring the proxy servers
• The firewall configuration

Implementation of the project
plan
• The guide provided with ESCG
and with detailed project plan
will outline everything in detail
with step by step execution.
• This also includes the starting
and the ending dates for each
activity. Along with this the
percentage of completion for
each activity is also mentioned.

Resources and budgeting
• Based on the idea that ECSG lies completely on federal funding.
This makes budgeting and resources limited. There are several
software that are variable open to use. This are as follows:
• Smart draw
• Nmap
• Visio
• Solar winds
• Automated clearing house

Project scheduling and timeline
for implementation
• The guide developed includes
all detailed scheduling and
time line for the project
completion. The tools
described will help in guiding
ECSG throughout the project ,
the activity time and the
completion date is also
calculated.

Implementation milestones
• The project planned is still in progress, but ECSG has
experienced several milestones while using the guide developed.
• There is a need for additional $30,000 funding
• The registration process is made quicker and easier
• Better services are provided to the customers
• Customer satisfaction improved
• Less downtime for network

References
• Kaur, K., Kumar, K., Singh, J., & Ghumman, N. S. (2015, March).
Programmable firewall using software defined networking.
In Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom),
2015 2nd International Conference on (pp. 2125-2129). IEEE.
• Lee, E., Lee, E. K., Gerla, M., & Oh, S. Y. (2014). Vehicular cloud
networking: architecture and design principles. IEEE Communications
Magazine, 52(2), 148-155.