Scenario: Set up iSeries to communicate with LAN

Situation

You are the network administrator for a small wholesale company, Sampson Organic Produce. Your customers include area grocery stores and individual families who want organically grown, high-quality produce. Your business has been growing and you have recently purchased a new iSeries server to help manage your inventory more efficiently. In the past, resources and key business applications were stored on individual workstations. As your business changed, it became apparent that data from these applications needed to be shared more easily. For example, employees who took telephone orders need a quicker way to check stock to determine product availability. In the past, they made customers wait while checking with an employee who had access to the in-stock database.

You plan to consolidate all of these key business applications on the new server. You have already completed all the required hardware planning and setup tasks for your new server. You have researched communication and networking and have decided to create an Ethernet local area network (LAN).

Objectives

After you add your server to the LAN, you would like to have met the following objectives:

• To set up the iSeries to communicate with the LAN.
• To set up a printer for the LAN.
• To ensure that the data stored on the server is protected.
• To locate TCP/IP services to communicate with other hosts.

Details

The following figure shows an iSeries server connected to a router. Three workstations and a printer are also connected to the router depicting the network for a small, fictional company called Sampson Organic Produce.

• iSeries A runs on OS/400^® Version 5 Release 2 (V5R2) and contains all pertinent business applications.
• iSeries A has the IP address 192.168.1.3.
• iSeries A has the subnet mask of 255.255.255.128.
• Workstation 1 has the IP address of 192.168.1.4.
• Workstation 2 has the IP address of 192.168.1.5.
• Workstation 3 has the IP address of 192.168.1.6.
• The printer has the IP address of 192.168.1.7.
• The router in the network has the IP address of 192.168.1.1.
  Tip: When no external network connection is planned, a hub can be used in place of a router or switch.

Prerequisites and assumptions

This scenario assumes the following prerequisites have been met in this network environment:

• All cabling and hardware setup has been completed for the network.
• If you use a router, the router has been configured. Configuration is not applicable to hubs or switches.

Configuration steps

Complete the following tasks. After each step, there is a link to the next task.