OPS535-vl-lab-nfs

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OPS535 Lab 2 (using Virutal Lab)

Objectives

• Setup and configure private network for your assigned VMs in the OPS535 Virtual Lab for this lab, future labs, and assignments
• Configure VM1 as your control workstation for performing remote administration tasks on VM[2-4]
• Create and deploy remote administration scripts using bash/ansible

Pre-Requisites

• Has access to Seneca VPN, and matrix.senecacollege.ca
• Complete the collection of baseline information on your assigned VMs (VM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4)
• Complete the Lab 2 - NFS lab on your home VMs

Investigation 1: VMs Configuration

Background

Make sure you have ssh access to your assigned VMs from matrix.senecacollege.ca using the port numbers, user name, and the corresponding password given on Blackboard via the router ops535.myvmlab.senecacollege.ca. The access router (ops535.myvmlab.senecacollege) maps the ports (9xxy) to the corresponding internal IP addresses (172.20.xx.y) of your VMs. Note that 'xx' is you assigned network number, and 'y' is the VM number. The following are the port mapping and the network configuration you should have on each VM. The values shown in the table are for the student with network number '14':

VM	Port	ens192 ip	ens224 ip	ens256 ip	hostname
VM y	9xxy	172.20.xx.y	192.168.xx.y	----	----
VM 1	9141	172.20.14.1	192.168.14.1	do-not-use	router
VM 2	9142	172.20.14.2	192.168.14.2	none	pri-dns
VM 3	9143	172.20.14.3	192.168.14.3	none	co-nfs
VM 4	9144	172.20.14.4	192.168.14.4	none	rns-ldap

Task 1 : setup and configure VM1

• ssh to your VM1 from matrix

ssh -p 9141 student@ops535.myvmlab.senecacollege.ca

• confirm the IP address on the network device 'ens192'.
• run the 'nmtui' command under sudo and configure the network device ens224 with the appropriate IP address (192.168.xx.1) as shown.
• run the 'nmtui' command to set the hostname
• install the 'epel-release' package
• install the 'ansible' package
• install the 'git' package
• install the 'wget' package
• run the command to update all the packages installed on the system

Task 2: setup and configure VM2 - VM4

• ssh from matrix to your VM2 - VM4, replace [2-4] with 2, 3, or 4:

ssh -p 914[2-4] student@ops435.myvmlab.senecacollege.ca

• confirm the IP address on the network device 'ens192'
• run the 'nmtui' command under sudo and configure the network device ens224 with the approprate IP address as shown in the table above.
• run the 'nmtui' command to set the hostname

Investigation 2: Control Workstation Configuration

Background

You will configure VM1 as the control workstation for performing remote administration task on your VM2 - VM4. The prefer method is to configure your control workstation to use ssh key-based authentication when connecting to your VM2 - VM4 remotely. If you are planning in using ansible to perform remote configuration, you need to set up the inventory file for ansible.

Task 1 : Configure ssh key-based authentication on VM1

• login to your VM 1 as 'student'.
• add the following IP address to hostname/FQDN mapping to the /etc/hosts file:

192.168.xx.1 router router.<your dns domain>
192.168.xx.2 pri-dns pri-dns.<your dns domain>
192.168.xx.3 co-nfs co-nfs.<your dns domain>
192.168.xx.4 rns-ldap rns-ldap.<your dns domain>

• run the 'ssh-keygen' to generate the public-private key pair for key-based authentication
• run the following commands to copy to public key to VM2 - VM4.

• for VM2

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub student@pri-dns

• for VM3

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub student@co-rns

• for VM4

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub student@rns-ldap

• verify and confirm that you can ssh to your VM2, VM3, and VM4 as 'student' with using password.

Task 2: Configure ansible's inventory file

• login to your VM1 (route) as 'student'
• Add the following information to the end of /etc/ansible/hosts:

[your dns domain]
pri-dns.<your dns domain> ansible_host=192.168.xx.2
co-nfs.<your dns domain> ansible_host=192.168.xx.3
rns-ldap.<your dns domain> ansible_host=192.168.xx.4

Investigation 3: Scripts for remote administrations

Task 1

Using bash scripts

Task 2

Using Ansible Playbooks

Completing the Lab

Follow the instructions on blackboard to submit the lab.

Exploration Questions