Saturday 15 February 2014

How to Provide Web services to all Clients across the Network

Once you configured the DHCP services (How to Provide DHCP services to all Clients across the Network), then configuring Web services is very easy.
Now if you recall; we configured RIP(Routing Information Protocol) to the Routers to allow communication between clients and also to provide DHCP services across the Network and this is the only thing we need to do with the routers to provide Web services to the clients across the network, no need to provide any helper-address as we provided for the DHCP services.


Configuring the Web services:
Configuring the Web services for the network shown in the picture:

Step 1:
Click the Web server then go to the Config tab and turn off the DHCP services only.

Step 2:
Provide the IP-address from the Desktop tab of the Web server and make sure the IP scheme is different. Here the address is 110.0.0.1


Step 3:
Configure RIP in all the routers in order to make sure the Web services are available to all the clients across the network; which obviously you've done before when you configured the DHCP services.

Step 4:
Now click the DHCP server and under the Config tab click DHCP. Here you will see the pools that you had made when you configured the DHCP server. Now go into every pool one by one and provide the DNS server address; this is the address that you provided to Web server as shown in the picture above. After providing DNS server address your pools would look like this:


Step 5:
Now go into every Laptop and under the Desktop tab click the IP configuration tile and make the DHCP request again to make sure that our client(Laptop) has the DNS server address.


Step 6:
Now click the Web server again and under the Config tab click DNS. There you will see two text boxes, one with a label of name and another is of address. In the name field enter any URL you want for ex:(www.cisco.com) and in the address field enter the same address that you provided the Web server, in our case this is:(110.0.0.1).


Step 7:
Web server is configured. Now it's time to check whether our clients can access the web services or not. Click on any Laptop(Client) and under the Desktop tab click the Web Browser and enter the URL that you provided above. You will see the page is displayed like shown below:




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