12
14. To see a list of all pages in your wiki, click the gear icon in the top bar, and then
click List All Pages. Make sure you see your Virtualization:VMclients page
listed. You will continue to add pages and content in later chapters.
16. In the left pane, click Security and then click Access policy. The page jumps to
the Membership section, but you can scroll back up to see your current access
17. Click through the other settings and options and make changes as desired. When
Project 2-4: Install and Use Zenmap
In this activity, you install Zenmap, the GUI version of Nmap for Windows, and use it to
scan your computer and your local network.
Note
Websites change. These steps were accurate at the time this book was written. However,
you might need to adjust these steps to account for future changes.
Complete the following steps:
13
2. Before installing Zenmap, you need to install the most recent version of Npcap,
which is a packet sniffing library for Windows. Click the latest Npcap release link,
and then click the most recent Npcap installer link. At the time of this writing, the
3. In your browser, click Back to return to the Windows section on the Download page.
Click the Latest stable release self-installer link. At the time of this writing, the
download file was called nmap-7.50-setup.exe. Go to the download location and run
the program to install Nmap. Respond to any system warnings and accept all default
settings during installation. If you get a message asking whether to reinstall Npcap,
click No if the new installation would use an older version of Npcap than the one you
just installed. For example, in Figure 2-42, the currently installed version is 0.92.
Nmap is requesting to install version 0.91, which is an older version. We want the
newer version to stay in place, so we clicked No.
14
4. Once the installation is complete, close all open windows, and then open Zenmap
from your desktop. Start with a quick scan of your local computer. In the Target field,
enter localhost, and in the Profile field, select Quick scan. Click Scan. The scan
In the following steps, you’ll try a scan of your local network and see how the output
changes. This time you will target all IP addresses in the same range as your computer’s
IP address. The easiest way to do this is to first determine your computer’s IP address.
5. Open a Command Prompt or PowerShell window and enter the command
6. Go back to Zenmap. In the Target field, type your local computer’s IPv4 address.
However, so that you can scan a range of IP addresses, replace the final block of
7. This time the output shows information about other hosts on your network as well as
the information you’ve already seen for your own computer. Scroll through the output
and answer the following questions:
15
b. Compared with the information you saw earlier about your own computer, what
different information is revealed about the other hosts?
c. Find a host with open ports reported and list the ports and their services in your
answer. What other information is provided about that host?
Note
You’ll learn more about ports, IP addresses, and MAC addresses in Chapter 3.
In Project 2-3, you created a wiki to track information about your work in this course.
You started a category called Virtualization and recorded information about the VM you
created in Chapter 1. App installations for projects is another kind of information we
want to track in the wiki.
8. Go to your Wikidot site and click User Guide in the top navigation bar. In the side
9. Under “Create a new page,” type some information about your Zenmap installation.
What is Zenmap? On which computer did you install Zenmap? What problems did
you run into, and what solutions did you come up with? What information did you
learn about your network from running scans in Zenmap? When you are finished,
10. Click the gear icon and click List All Pages to confirm your new page was created. In
Capstone Projects
Capstone Project 2-1: Create a VM and Install Ubuntu Desktop
In the Capstone Projects of Chapter 1, you created a virtual machine using Windows 10
Client Hyper-V and Oracle VirtualBox. In this Capstone Project, you create a second VM
in your virtual network and install Ubuntu Desktop in the VM. In Chapter 4, you’ll install
Ubuntu Server in your network. For these VM projects, you can use your choice of
hypervisor.
Using one of the same computers that you used in Capstone Project 1-1 or 1-2 that has
Client Hyper-V or Oracle VirtualBox installed, depending on which hypervisor you
prefer, follow these steps:
1. Go to ubuntu.com and download the Ubuntu Desktop OS to your hard drive.
2. Open the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager or Hyper-V Manager. Following the
directions in the Chapter 1 Capstone Projects, create a new VM named VM2,
VM.
3. Start the VM and install Ubuntu Desktop, accepting all default settings (see
Figure 2-44). When given the option, don’t install any extra software bundled
4. To verify you have an Internet connection, open the Mozilla Firefox browser and
5. Good network technicians must know how to use many operating systems. Poke
around in the Ubuntu Desktop interface and get familiar with it. You can also
search the web for tutorials and YouTube videos on how to use Ubuntu Desktop.
What can you do with the Dashboard icon at the top of the left sidebar?
6. When you’re ready to shut down your VM, click the gear icon in the upper-right
7. Before you walk away from this project, take a moment to add the new
information to your VMclients page in your wiki. Go to the
Virtualization:VMclients page, click Edit at the bottom of the page, and add the
new VM to your list. Include the chapter number, hypervisor used, VM computer
Capstone Project 2-2: Download and Use Spiceworks
In Hands-On Project 2-4, you downloaded and used Zenmap, the Nmap GUI, to collect
data about the devices on your network. Another popular program for taking inventory of
network devices is Spiceworks Inventory. You might be familiar with Spiceworks Help
Desk for its ticket-tracking features. Spiceworks Inventory is software that is included in
the Help Desk installation and supports inventory management so that you can track the
devices on your network, monitoring software licenses, cloud services, IP address
assignments, and more. A third Spiceworks product is Network Monitor, which includes
some powerful network mapping and monitoring functionality. In this project, you
download and install Spiceworks Inventory, scan your network, and view a network map.
Complete the following steps:
1. To begin, go to the Spiceworks website at spiceworks.com. Download and install
Spiceworks Inventory. You’ll have to create an account to download the package, so
19
2. When the installation is complete, close the setup window. Spiceworks opens in a
3. Fill in your information on the Personalize this install of Spiceworks page and click
5. Enter domain credentials if you have them. Otherwise, select I don’t have any for
[[Insert Figure 2-45 here]]
6. In our example, Spiceworks was able to resolve a few device names already.
Depending on the type of credentials you used, your device scan might have been
more or less successful, but that’s fine for the level of work you’ll be doing in this
project. Take a couple of minutes to explore the results of your scan and answer the
following questions:
a. How many devices were successfully inventoried?
b. Click on one of the devices to select it, preferably one that has more information
listed than just an IP address. Scroll down to where you can see the General Info
tab for the selected device. What information is reported here?
c. Click on the other tabs, such as Configuration and Software. What other
information can you see about this device? If no other information is listed, what
are three or four interesting items that you could see if your scan results were
more thorough?
7. At the top of the page, click Dashboard. Skim through the various items listed here
to see what kinds of information you could collect and monitor with Spiceworks.
9. Spiceworks will probably report that it has some login errors that need fixing. Scroll
down and click Skip this step to choose not to address the errors at this time.
10. Under Explore Your Device Inventory, click Go, and then click View Your Devices.
What new information do you see in these results, if any?
11. At the top of the page, click My Network and Network Map. Enable Flash if
necessary. After the map is created, answer the following questions:
a. How many devices appear on the Network Map?
b. What is the IP address of your network’s default gateway? How did you identify
this device on your map?
12. Finally, add one more page to your wiki for this new app installation. Name the new
page Applications:SpiceWorks. Add important information to the page about your
21