BAHRAIN POLYTECHNIC

Single Pane of Glass Network Dashboard

Project Proposal

ID: 201400529
Name: Duraid A.Jabbar Ali Al-Ghadban
Company name: The Bahrain Petroleum Company B.S.C. (BAPCO)

Company logo:

This document describes the activities the above named student will undertake at the above named company as part of the
Bachelor of ICT programme at Bahrain Polytechnic
CONTACT DETAILS

Student Name Duraid A.Jabbar Ali Al-Ghadban

e-mail address [email protected]

Mobile phone 66762787 / 37700462

Student ID 201400529

Supervisor Name Mohammed Osman

e-mail address [email protected]

Mobile phone Unknown

Industry mentor Name Ali Neama / Prakash Babu

Position IT Infrastructure Specialists

e-mail address [email protected] /

[email protected]

Phone number 17753882

Line Manager Name Ebrahim M Ali, Supt.

Position IT Governance & Admin

e-mail address [email protected]

Phone number Tel: 17758855

Mob: 66957775

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PROJECT TYPE

Select project type from the list below:

Networking Programming Database Management of Information Systems

INTRODUCTION

Bapco is a company that is specialized in oil industry in which it is line of business is in refining, supplying of
petroleum products and gas field. “ITD infrastructure” is a department that combines networking and IT
infrastructure teams. They provide several services that are related to networks and network devices that
run with different processing capabilities to support their business by providing services using workstations,
servers, printers, and storage devices, etc.

During the implementation of this project, the “ITD team” will be constructing and connecting the Bapco’s
networking devices to a unified network dashboard. Therefore, this will solve the disorganization of having
multiple monitoring tools for multiple departments. The solution will integrate the network devices from
two locations that are Awali and Refinery to connect to monitoring tool to display network segments,
maps, alerts and reports.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Summary:

Having a comprehensive resourceful network dashboard deliver more visualization in terms of data and
reports that are related to the Bapco’s network. In addition, network administrator have the ability to make
decisions on alerts that are occurring on the Bapco’s network.

Objectives:

Build and connect network devices of different infrastructure locations that are Awali and Refinery.

The system should provide:

1. Monitor mail server availability, performance and delivery.

2. Managing and solving any network faults by viewing the alerts and e-mail notification.
3. Checking the availability by ensuring all devices and servers are healthy and running.

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4. Integrate Awali PRTG Core Server with Refinery PRTG remote server.
5. Providing a live data and historic data showing the traffic in, traffic out and total traffic of network
devices.
Benefits:

1. Help the network administrator to identify the network faults immediately and solve the network
issues.
2. Provide on-demand visibility and insight to the core IT infrastructure devices and servers.
3. Help make decisions and take actions quickly by solving the alarms that are logged in the monitoring
tool.
4. Monitor the overall network performance and evaluate the progress.
5. Enhance Collaboration between IT teams in sharing reports of the network.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Technical requirements:

1. Calculate the infrastructure network bandwidth by utilizing SNMP sensor.

2. Configure network connectivity using ICMP sensor.
3. Monitor servers (physical or virtual) and network devices (switches and firewalls) health
displaying their status whether running or shutdown.
4. Monitor SMTP downtime and response time to identify any failure in mail server.
5. Send alerts about the uptimes, downtimes, and slow responding servers, switches, firewalls, and
disks in milliseconds.
6. The function of sharing data and reports to enhance collaboration between Infrastructure
teams.

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DELIVERABLES

This table shows the list of deliverables along with their deadlines for the current project. Both, company’s
and course requirements are listed. The official end date of the internship will be on 27th June 2019.

Deliverables Deliverable Type (Company/ Deadline

Course Requirement)

CV / Academic Transcript Bapco Requirement 20.02.2019

Request Letter to Bapco Bapco Requirement 20.02.2019

Memorandum Agreement “CLP” Course Requirement 23.03.2019

Feedback Form – University “CLP” Course Requirement 06.04.2019

Supervisor

Acceptance Form – Industry “CLP” Course Requirement 06.04.2019

Mentor

Project Proposal “CLP” Course Requirement 06.04.2019

Weekly Reflections “CLP” Course Requirement End of each week on Saturday /

11:55 PM

Slef-Evaluation ‘Reflection’ “CLP” Course Requirement 28.05.2019

Thesis Document “CLP” Course Requirement 06.07.2019

Final Demonstration “CLP” Course Requirement 08.07.2019

Poster “CLP” Course Requirement 08.07.2019

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PROJECT PLAN

The methodology followed to monitor the development of the project will utilize “Microsoft Project” in
order to plan the sequence of project development.

1. Initiation

2. Planning

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3. Execution

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4. Closing

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PROPOSED TECHNOLOGIES

This table shows the technologies that will be utilized through the project duration showing the software,
hardware technologies, and alternative possible technologies.

Software technologies: Hardware technologies: Alternative technologies:

1. Windows server 2012 R2 1. Extreme Switch 1. ManageEngine

2. Active Directory 2. Fortinet Firewall (OpManager) Network
3. SQL Server 2016 Monitoring
4. PRTG Network 2. Solarwinds Network
Monitoring Server Performance Monitor
3. Nagios XI
4. Logic Monitor
5. Cisco Switch “Catalyst”

POTENTIAL RESTRICTIONS

This table shows a list of restrictions that will be affecting the project along with the action to remedy each
restriction.

Restriction Action Toward Restriction

 A restriction not to publish or submit

 Make changes to the documentation in which
project documents that include any
information are understandable and they are not
company’s sensitive data, for example,
matching the real network design and IP
network design and IP addressing
addresses.
scheme being utilized currently.

 A restriction not to have access on all

 A limited access to some specific servers, devices
Bapco’s servers and devices from the
like (switches and firewalls), and virtual
PRTG network monitoring tool.
machines.

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