Lab W9L7 (1)
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Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
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Week9
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Objective of this Assignment:
In this lab, learners learn how to work with monitoring tools and add devices in the monitoring software.
Relevant Course Learning Requirements:
CLR 3: Describe how to properly monitor the network and associated traffic.
Lab Topology/Addressing
Lab summary:
Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
Work with PRTG and Network Monitoring
Background / Scenario
Network monitoring system helps Network administrators keep an eye on devices, traffic and resources in the network and notifies network administrators when things go wrong.
Unexpected behavior in the Network, like bandwidth or CPU spike, also can be a sign of malicious activity or infected system.
In this lab we work with PRTG and configure a Network Monitoring System.
Please note:
1) “
Username”
is your College username. 2)
Save all screen captures and answers in a file named “W9_L7_
username
.docx” and upload to the Week 9 Lab submission folder.
Part 1) Install PRTG
a)
From your workstation, go to PRTG website and click on “Free Download” icon and save file on your PC.
https://www.paessler.com/prtg
There is a copy of PRTG in the application folder in PC1 and PC2.
Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
b)
Copy the file you have downloaded to PC2_Win10 and double click to install and select “Yes”
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c)
Follow the installation wizard.
Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
d)
Type your email address and click next.
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e)
If your PC is not connected to the Internet you will get following message.
Click Next and PRTG starts to install.
f)
After finishing installation process, you will see login page.
Click Login.
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Please Note
: Follow steps in section G, to activate PRTG, due copy / paste file limitation in Cyber Range. Then go to “
Part 2
”.
g)
In Activation page, select “Manual” and follow the instruction to activate your license.
You need to use “
Copy From VM
” and “
Paste to VM
” tabs in Cyber Range to copy “License Key”, “License Name” and “System ID” from activation page to lab workstation to request activation data.
Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
Go to https://www.paessler.com/activation
and fill information based on what you have copied from VM, then select “Activate”.
Select “Copy Key File” and paste copied information in the Activation page in PRTG in Step 4
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Make sure activation data is formatted as below, then select “Activate License”.
Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
h)
Click on “Download Key File” and save the file.
i)
Copy the file to PC2_Win10 and in the Step 4 of Active Your License page, click on “Load From File” and open the “activation.dat” file.
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j)
Click on “Activate License”
Part 2) Work With PRTG
a)
Open “Welcome to PRTG” page.
Move your mouse to Home and then select “Welcome to PRTG”.
Take a screen capture.
b)
Open “Sample Dashboard” page.
Move your mouse to Home and then select “Sample Dashboard”.
Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
Take a screen capture.
c)
List all devices scanned by PRTG.
Move your mouse to Devices and then select “All”.
Take a screen capture.
d)
Add a new group to the list.
Right click on the “Local Probe” and select “Add Group” and name it “End Users”.
Take a screen capture.
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e)
Add an auto discovery group.
Right click on the “Local Probe” and select “Add Auto-Discovery Group” and name it “LAN”.
Take a screen capture.
Use following values when creating this group:
Schedule: Weekly
IP Base: 10.10.4.0
IP Selection Method: IP and Subnet (IPv4)
Name Resolution: Use IP addresses
f)
Notice, PRTG starts to scan the network and list the devices in the LAN group.
Take a screen capture.
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g)
Click on PC1_Win10. Scroll down and in “Recommended Sensors” click on “Recommend Now”.
PRTG starts to inspect the device and recommend useful sensors for this device.
Take a screen capture at the end of inspection.
h)
In Sensor list, click on “Ping”. It opens “Sensor Ping” page.
What are the minimum and maximum Ping times?_______________
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i)
Click on the setting icon to edit “Ping Time” Channel.
Select “Enable alerting based on limits”.
Use following values, then click OK.
Upper Error Limit(msec): 6
Lower Warning Limit(msec): 3
Take a screen capture “Ping Time” section.
j)
Click on “Live Data” tab and take a screen capture.
k)
Click on “Log” tab and take a screen capture.
Under “Status” column, are there any Warning or Error alerts?
If yes, what are the “Message” for alerts?
l)
Click on “PC1_Win10” to open to show “Device PC1” page, then click on the “Log”.
Take a screen capture.
What are the differences of the Log page between Device and Ping sensors?
_____________
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m) Move your mouse on icon next to one of the sensors listed under “Sensor” column. A new window appears and shows information about that sensor.
Take a screen capture of the window that appears on your screen.
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Week 9 Lab 7 – Monitoring Nodes and Resources
This is the end of the lab.
Please submit all the results, as instructed in the lab activities to the Brightspace Week 9 Lab 7 Submission folder.
Grading Criteria
Exceptional
Proficient
Unsatisfactory
Insufficient
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Part2, Step a An image form welcome page
Wrong tab
Wrong image
No image
Part2, Step b
An image form Dashboard
Wrong tab
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Part2, Step c
An image with scanned devices
Wrong tab
Wrong image
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Part2, Step d
An image with new groups
An image with wrong group
An image with no group
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Part2, Step e
An image with requested information
An image with wrong group
An image with no group
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Part2, Step f
An image with requested information
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Image without devices in the scan
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Part2, Step g
An image with requested information
Image of wrong device
Image without recommended sensors
No image
Part2, Step h
All requested information
Min or Mx value
Wrong answer
No answer
Part2, Step i
An image with requested information
Image with wrong values
Image without new values
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Part2, Step j
An image with requested information
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Wrong image
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Part2, Step k
All requested information
Answer to the questions
Image with Log tab
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Part2, Step l
An image with requested information
Log image or answer to the question
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Part2, Step m
An image with requested information
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Image without sensor information
No image
Total marks: /39
Total value: /3%