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BCS HIGHER EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Candidate Name:

Membership No:

Course Provider:

(if applicable)

NOT APLICABLE

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Project Level:

(Tick as appropriate)

Diploma Professional GraduateDiploma

Project Title: INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - (IMS)

Proposal Submission Date:

Authenticator:

(Tick as appropriate)

BCS Professional Member (i.e. MBCS/FBCS) (CV not required)

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Authenticators Membership No.:

IT Professional (e.g. Manager, Supervisor or Tutor) with aminimum of 5 years relevant work experience.

CV enclosed (mandatory)

Planned Project Submission date: October 2011 April 2012

NOTE: Please complete your proposal in the relevant section overleaf.

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Background of the Project

< Company> is a semi-government organisation and provide electricity service in Sri

Lanka. < Company> IT branch consist with three main sections. Those are application

development, Infrastructure Management and Clerical Operations.

Proposed project IT-INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - (IMS) is

relate to the Infrastructure Management section. It will reduce obstacles in managementactivities and streamline all the processes within the Infrastructure section

Activities of Infrastructure management Section.

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Infrastructure Management Section consists with several processes to help day to day

activities of developers, administrators, management and < Company>customers.

Processes are as follow.

1. Administration of Datacenter

Administrate server farms related to Internet, email, databases and

application servers.

Hosting of internally developed new applications and serve them to end

users.

2. Handle IT related purchasing

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Handle tenders of IT equipment and software purchasing

Handle hardware maintenance Agreement

Handle Software Licence renewals

Hand WAN Link purchasing and maintenance agreement

3. Workshop

Repair and troubleshoot PCs and Server hardware

Software installations

Establish wired and wireless network

Configure end-user equipment to access < Company> network

4. Network Infrastructure management

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Provide Network Solutions related to business requirement

Manage internal IP schemes for all business units of < Company>)

Manage various operator WAN links connections to < Company> (IP

VPN)

Scope of the Project

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Scope of the project is decided with considering the immediate requirements of the

management. The network infrastructure management process and work shop

process are given top priority to stream line and automate immediately. However the

software solutions should be capable to extend its functionality to other processes as

well (single interface to manage all activities).

Deliverables of proposed system

System Deliverables relate to the Workshop process

workshop helpdesk will assign a job number to the customer complain

Analyse the nature of the job and assign a person to solve the problem

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Provide customer to inquire status of the job

Ability to close successfully completed jobs

Facility to generate various MIS reports regarding workshop activities

Repetitive nature of problems.

Efficiency of the workshop activities etc...

Deliverable related to the Network Process

Following facilities will be accessed by the IT administrators located island wide. By

authenticate with the system, they will be able to manage their resources.

WAN Link management

Keep records regarding WAN Links in the entire Island (ISP details, Bandwidth,

Circuit ID, IP configuration, Cost of link...etc)

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Remind service provider agreement expirations.

Generate MIS reports (about agreement expiry, Bandwidth wise, Available links

service provider wise ....etc.)

LAN Management

Facility to keep IP configuration of the LAN (assign IP addresses, Free IP

addresses..etc)

Facility to keep VLAN configuration details

Facility to generate PC labels (to Stick on network devices, PCs, Printers) to

identify network configuration of each device. Provide massaging system to educate end-users regarding maintenance down

times.

Approach of the project

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Interview and prototyping will be used to gather the requirement of users.

Incremental development process will be used to develop the system.

Development Tools

VB .NET 2005 or above

PHP and Java Scripts

Confirmation of the fitness of the System

Use Unit testing, White box testing, Black box testing incrementally with

each face.

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User feedback with early system experience.

System Requirement

Hardware Requirement

Client Side

Windows 2000 or above

IE 6 or Firefox 3.5 or above browser

512 MB RAM

500 MB Free Disk Space

Server Side Requirement

Windows 2003 or above windows server

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IIS or Apache web server, My SQL Database

1 GB RAM

2 GB Free Disk Space

Milestones

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See separate attachment as a JPG file

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Examiners Comments (to be completed by the Examiner)

From the elements provided, the Examiners believe that there should be sufficient breadth anddepth in the proposed work to satisfy the requirements at the level chosen (final yearundergraduate). They recommend that the candidate consults the authenticator to ensure thatthe scope remains appropriate; and that attention is paid to the strategy and realisation of thedemonstrations that the final system is fit for its intended purpose.

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Proposal Approved Re-submit Proposal

Date completed: 8 November 2011