Network Operations and Management logbook

Network Operations and Management logbook
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Lab-2 Network Operations and Management
Installing Windows Server and Configuring DNS and IIS in Windows
The task which was to be performed in this particular lab session was administrative tasks which
is done in a windows server 2016 version, the configuration of the DNS is also done in the same
windows server 2016.
The main objectives of the session includes the following
i. Installation and configuration of the Microsoft windows server 2016 version on a
virtual machine.
ii. Installation and configuration of the DNS on the Microsoft windows server 2016
version together with setting up of the DNS on the virtual machine for the domain:
eng657testdomain74.com.
I. Installation of the Virtual Machine
For the above to be achieved, then the very first step is to download the virtual machine ware
direct from the Netserve website. After downloading, the VMware is then installed from the
terminal chmod 755 VMware-Player-14.1.0-6661328.x86_64.bundle
#./VMware-Player-7.1.0-2496824.x86_64.bundle.
The process of downloading and terminal installation is shown in the below diagram.

Just after the command is executed in the terminal, then we went to the installation page in order
to install the VMware as shown below.
After the installation of the virtual machine is complete, the below shows how the later looks
like.

In order to correctly set up the virtual machine network, then the following files have to be
modified in the local host
/etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf
/etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
/etc/vmware/networking
In the very first step, we went directly to the file named dhck.conf and the ip address in that file is
modified. This is shown in the screenshot below as follows.

In the networking file we changed the ip address for Host Only Netmask and Subnet shown in the
screenshot below.
After the change in the IP address, then we went directly to the nat.conf file, the gateway is
modified in the nat.conf file as shown in the screesnshot which can be seen below.

Now, the files have been modified, the next step is to check the network which is customized.
This is done by typing the command #service vmware start
Then we ran the command #ifconfig in order to check the network configuration. ifconfig is a
framework organization utility in Unix-like working frameworks for system interface setup. The
utility is a direction line interface device and is additionally utilized in the framework startup
contents of many working frameworks. This is which is shown in the below screenshot.
II. Installing Windows server 2016 on a Virtual Machine

For the installation of the windows server 2016 on the VMware, the command vmplayer is typed
on the terminal which now launches the virtual machine.
The commands is responsible for triggering the VM machine to start. This is shown in the below
screenshot.
After the virtual machine has create, then we clicked on the create new virtual machine as shown
in the below screenshot.

We created a virtual machine using ISO image, which is available at the following locations on
the host’s file system:
/root/ENG657.install/windows2016server.iso
Following the set of instruction s which were given in the lab sheet, we changed the name which
was in the windows server 2016 version. This is shown in the below screenshot.