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.book Page 317 Friday, January 7, 2000 5:35 PMCase Study #2: Big Oil and Gas 317Figure 9-1 Big Oil and Gas Existing NetworkSAP InternetServersLANNovell Servers at Remote SitesNovell Servers at Remote Sites3 What network management application would you recommend for routerconfiguration tracking and hardware inventory management?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4 Are there any protocols that cannot be routed on this network?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CH01.book Page 318 Friday, January 7, 2000 5:35 PM318 Chapter 9: Additional Case Studies5 What does the diagram in Figure 9-2 describe?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Figure 9-2 Big Oil and Gas Question #5 DiagramInternetLAN6 Do you see any utilization problems with the LAN segments?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7 Are there any Cisco IOS features that can help prioritize the business SAP trafficon the WAN links?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CH01.book Page 319 Friday, January 7, 2000 5:35 PMCase Study #3: CartoonWorks, Inc.3198 What does the diagram in Figure 9-3 describe?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Figure 9-3 Big Oil and Gas Question #8 DiagramInternetLANCase Study #3: CartoonWorks, Inc.CartoonWorks, Inc., is a graphical firm specializing in animation for the advertisement andentertainment industries.This firm is growing quickly and needs to remain competitive.Thefirm just completed a strategy meeting to decide how each department can contribute to createa corporation that will give the company an edge in the market.Ms.Roberts, the Director of IS for CartoonWorks, Inc., is responsible for all LAN and WANimplementations.She has proposed networking CartoonWorks remote offices in an effort tocapture and share the intellectual capital and to allow for easy communications betweendesigners and artists to increase creativity and productivity. CH01.book Page 320 Friday, January 7, 2000 5:35 PM320 Chapter 9: Additional Case StudiesThe company has always operated with independent offices.Ms.Roberts has hired you to helpher come up with a cost-effective plan to start connecting the different offices and to help hercreate this network.Ms.Roberts is interested not only in the initial design, but also in a phasedimplementation plan so that she can budget correctly for this upgrade.Currently, there are two main offices, each with anywhere from 70 to 100 Apple and PCworkstations, making the total hosts of the two offices no more than 200.Each office has onenetwork segment.All administrative functions are located in CartoonWorks Main Street office.The Human Resources, Accounting, and Corporate departments all share two Novell 4.11 fileservers.The Administrative and IT users have only PCs, and the Production users have a mixof PCs and Macintosh computers.The third server is the primary NDS directory for userauthentication and home directories.However, the Marketing, Production, and IT departments occupy two floors in the Oak Streetoffice.Marketing and Production share two servers, and IT uses the secondary NDS server.Thetwo offices are connected via a point-to-point T1 connection.Ms.Roberts has expressedconcern about the redundancy for the line.All the graphical work is done on Apple computers,and the operations and administration work for the corporation is done on PCs.The networkuses AppleTalk and IPX/SPX protocols.However, the new documentation management andchat room server that is designed to facilitate communication in a company is a Web-basedproduct.In addition, the company has been developing and testing its two new NT Web servers on thenew Internet segment.These new Web servers need to communicate with the new NT SQLdatabase at the Oak Street office.The Media Group, which is part of the Production department,will complete its testing within one month.With the new Web servers, Ms.Roberts needs toalso implement a DNS solution and register a domain name.Ms.Roberts has begun the processof acquiring a domain name in preparation for the Internet access, but she needs to install andsecure her DNS servers.A new T1 Internet connection has been installed at the data center in the Oak Street office, butCartoonWorks does not have a security policy and needs to install security.Everyone in thecompany will have Web access, and the company is concerned about the legal implications ofusing the Web.Ms.Roberts wants to make changes to the network as seamlessly as possible forher users.This is especially critical due to the lack of technical support staff and the recentimplementation of critical applications, such as a GroupWare system.CartoonWorks migratedto Novell s GroupWise from cc:Mail, but the company has not installed the Internet e-mailcapability and has made that and security its first concern
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