CONSOLIDATION The Technical Side - 5 Year View Nate Gambill & Corey Spade - Network Engineers - St. Joseph County Schools

CONSOLIDATION - Not a 4 letter word Actually it’s a 13 letter word. Consider another 13 letter word: COLLABORATION CONSOLIDATION=COLLABORATION COLLABORATION=COOPERATION

BACKGROUND

6 School Districts 1 ISD 3 Network Administrators

Every other net engineer is: 1 - Less Intelligent than I am 2 - A Crazy Tech Nazi 3 - An opinionated IDIOT 4 - Way behind me in skills

WHY are we here? $$$ - NO Prestige - NO Students and Staff Make a Difference !

First Step Network VLAN / IP Structure

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School Data NetworkStartEndMaskVLAN GWVLAN Id Servers Data Admin Building Data Site 1 Data Site 2 Data Site 3 Data Future Expansion Future Expansion Future Expansion Future Expansion

School Wireless WLAN1 +7StartEndMaskVLAN GWVLAN Id RESERVED Admin Building WLAN Site 1 WLAN Site 2 WLAN Site 2 WLAN Future Expansion Future Expansion Future Expansion Future Expansion

School Wireless WLAN1 +7StartEndMaskVLAN GWVLAN Id RESERVED Admin Building Public Site 1 Public WLAN Site 2 Public WLAN Site 3 Public WLAN Future Expansion Future Expansion Future Expansion Future Expansion

QUESTIONS 1- WHY am I angry? 2- In the grand scheme, does it matter? 3- Really worth fighting for MY idea?

CORE BELIEF CONVICTION PREFERENCE HABIT

Next Step IP Standards

Device Type Octet 4 Start Octet 4 End FIREWALLS26 Terminal Server - Tech78 TBA - Spare9 Domain Controllers1019 TBA - Spare2024 Mail Services - SMTP25 TBA - Spare26 Mail Services - SPAM2728 TBA - Spare29 Application Servers3039 Student Information System4049 Terminal Server - Student5059 Terminal Server - Staff6069 Terminal Server - Applications7079

Device Type Octet 4 Start Octet 4 End Web Server / Apps / Caching8086 Print Servers8789 StoneWare9099 Antivirus Server IDM / IDM Database Food Service Server110 Library Server111 Finance Apps TBA Apps Utility Server119 Help Desk / Etc Batteries/UPS File Servers Dell iDRAC/HP LightsOut150164

Device Type Octet 4 Start Octet 4 End DB Servers - MS and MYSQL Local Time Clock / Security Video Servers Content Filters Mobile Device Management Mgmt – ZenWorks, SCCM Network Monitoring Syslog Management - IMC Altiris Environmental Monitoring VOICE Servers / etc Vmware Servers SAN Hosts / SAN Switches Backup, NAS, Veeam240249

Next Step Naming Standards

STAFF Naming Standard First initial of first name and last name. If more than one individual with that login combination, add the next letter of the first name until the login is unique. Password Standard ●Staff can change their password at anytime ●A minimum of 8 alpha/numeric with 3 of the following 4 characters. ●Upper, Lower, Number, Symbol. Cannot include more than 2 consecutive characters of their first, last, or user name. ●(Windows Complex Password Requirements) ●Mandatory change every 180 days

STUDENTS First initial of first name, full last name and last two digits of their SIS generated student number. If there are more than one individual with that login combination, increment the number on the end. Should we reach 999 users with the same first initial and last name, add a letter of their first name. Password Standard Students can change their password at anytime A minimum of 8 alpha/numeric with 3 of the following 4 characters. Upper, Lower, Number, Symbol. Cannot include more than 2 consecutive characters of their first, last, or user name. (Windows Complex Password Requirements) Do not force password changes.

Equipment Identification (Computers, Switching) All labels should be the same color and size. The standard for a label is a yellow background with black text on it. It is also broken down into 4 sections. Below are each section and what they represent. AAA-BB-CCCC-DDD AAA - 3 Characters identifying the School District (standard code) BB - 2 Characters identifying the Building inside the District CCCC - 4 Characters identifying the Room inside a building DDD - 3 Characters identifying the number and type of device

Equipment Identification (Computers, Switching) THR-HS-S102-02M STU-ES-135-T1 MEN-HS-CART-01M Alternate Method THR-HS-ASMITH Laptop or mobile device not specifically assigned to a physical space.

Switching Patching Infrastructure

JACK and PATCH CABLE COLORS

Firewalls Content Filtering Packet Shaping

Anti Virus Servers Storage

$$$ MONEY $$$

Making it Happen Entire IP Changes in Districts Active Directory Configuration / User Accounts Reimage ALL Desktops, File Server Transfers Printers, Copiers, Wireless, Facilities BCUs

Making it Happen CHECKLISTS Migrations Preparation, Preparation, Preparation

Communicate Apologize Be Patient

INDEX District - Not Ebola, but close ! What we learned...

Next Districts

Questions Comments (no tomatoes please)

Thank You for your Attention Nate Gambill – Corey Spade –