Pretend that you are the IT manager of a fast growing small technology company with four groups - Engineering, Technical Support, Sales and Marketing, and General Administration. The company has four Fast Ethernet LAN segments on a Gigabit Ethernet backbone with a gateway to the ISP. You would like to centrally monitor the traffic and study the trend in traffic pattern.
One of the mostly commonly used traffic-monitoring tool is MRTG (Multi Router Graphic Router). Study the use of MRTG for use in your company and prepare a report to present to your management. You should assume that the management needs education on the subject. Here is an outline that you may use for your report. The comments in parentheses are for you to use and not to be in the report.
1. Executive Summary
2. The Network Configuration
3. Traffic Measurement Tools - A Summary
4. MRTG tool: Functions, Operation, and Capabilities
5. Basic Traffic Measurements
6. Advanced Traffic Measurements (Show your creativity here)
7. Implementation Proposal (You may want to try to implement MRTG for fun, but this as an option and not required for this exam)
8. Expected results (You may use samples from other source unless you want to generate your own.)
9. Future Direction (Would you add or choose other tools and if so why?)
10. References
Your grade will be based on the following criteria. Please do not just copy (cut and paste) text from the sources, but use your own words to write the report. You have the liberty of modifying the outline to suit your needs, but the issues addressed should be in the report as it will determine your grade.
The report should not exceed TEN PAGES.
Content
Report Presentation
Originality / Creativity