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Case Study: 9
Litware, Inc
Scenario
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Litware, Inc. is a manufacturing company that has a main office and two branch office. The
main office is located in Montreal. The branch offices are located in Seattle and New York.
The main office has 4,000 users. The branch offices each have 500 users.
PLANNED CHANGES
Litware plans to open a new sales office. The sales office will have a direct connection to the
Internet. The sales office will have a single server. The sales office requires a connection to
the Montreal office. The connection to the Montreal office must use either TCP port 80 or
TCP port 443. The network currently contains a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN).
A new iSCSI SAN will be implemented during the next month. The current SAN and the new
SAN are from different manufacturers. Both SANs use a virtual disk service (VDS) interface.
EXISTING ENVIRONMENT
All servers run Windows Server 2008 R2. All client computers run Windows 7 Enterprise.
The main office has a single DHCP server. The IP addresses for all of the client computers
must be assigned from the DHCP server. All software is installed from a central software
distribution point in the main office. Software deployments for the branch offices frequently
fail due to bandwidth limitations.
Existing Active Directory/Directory Services
The network contains a single Active Directory domain named litwareinc.com. Each office
has two domain controllers.
Current Administration Model
Currently, all help desk users have full administrator rights to the servers. The help desk users
use Remote Desktop to log on to the servers and perform tasks such as managing Active
Directory user accounts and creating DHCP reservations.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Windows Firewall must be managed by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
Windows Firewall configurations must be duplicated easily between servers that have the
same server role. Litware must centralize the monitoring of critical system events. The
monitoring solution must use the existing infrastructure. Litware plans to prevent help desk
users from interactively logging on to servers. Help desk users must not have full
administrator rights to the servers.
The software deployment process must be updated to meet the following requirements:
• Application source files must be centrally managed.
• Software deployments to the offices in Seattle and New York must remain unaffected
if a WAN link fails.
The SANs must be administered by using a single tool.
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You need to recommend a process for monitoring the servers. The process must meet the
company’s technical requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?
A.
event subscriptions
B.
Data Collector Sets (DCSs)
C.
Resource Monitor
D.
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Explanation:
http ://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749183.aspx
Event Viewer enables you to view events on a single remote computer. However, troubleshooting an
issue might require you to examine a set of events stored in multiple logs on multiple computers.
Windows Vista includes the ability to collect copies of events from multiple remote computers and
store them locally. To specify which events to collect, you create an event subscription. Among other
details, the subscription specifies exactly which events will be collected and in which log they will be
stored locally. Once a subscription is active and events are being collected, you can view and
manipulate these forwarded events as
You would any other locally stored events.
Using the event collecting feature requires that you configure both the forwarding and the collecting
computers.
The functionality depends on the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service and the Windows
Event Collector (Wecsvc) service. Both of these services must be running on computers participating
in the forwarding and collecting process. To learn about the steps required to configure event
collecting and forwarding computers, see Configure Computers to Forward and Collect Events.