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Design Scenario
You are in the process of developing a network design proposal for Genome4U, a large-scale
university project that has been discussed in previous chapters. As you considered network
management for this project, you came to a preliminary decision that CDP should be enabled on the
Cisco routers and switches. When you discussed this idea with the university network engineers,
however, you suddenly found yourself in the middle of a Layer 8 (office politics) quagmire. As it
turns out, the network engineers have been arguing among themselves for years about the benefits of
CDP. The security-focused engineers want it disabled. The engineers who focus on day-to-day
operations want it enabled. The desktop support technicians agree with the operations group because
the Cisco VoIP phones that they install can take advantage of CDP. The IT architects insist that the
decision is theirs but they don’t return phone calls when you ask for their opinion.
What will be your recommendation and why? Should CDP be enabled? Should it be enabled on all
devices and interfaces? How will you convince your customers that your decision is the best one and
they should abide by it, even the IT architects?
Review Questions
1. This chapter covered network management, whereas the previous chapter covered network
security. Note that network design tasks are often interwoven, however, and shouldn’t be
considered discrete just because a book is divided into discrete chapters. In what ways are
network management and network security interrelated? When designing network management
for your customer, what security concerns will you address? When designing network security
for your customer, what network management concerns will you address?
2. Research a network management product or tool of your choice. Describe the product or tool in
two or three paragraphs.
Subject: ICT319 Network Design Project Oppenheimer, P. 2010, Top-Down Network Design, CISCO Press
Chapter 9 Network Management Design
Design Scenario