Creation of Intra-Departmental Battle Lab
Claudia Garcia and Kelsey Tankesley
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
Lecturer Albert Barreto, Virtualization and Cloud Computing Lab
Introduction
Soldering
Rats with brains navigated mazes
faster
Results
Brainectomiz
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Conclusions
Time
(s) Virtualization and Ethical Hacking lab are
The purpose of this project was to integrate excess
agency resources per Department of Defense (DoD)
consolidation directive. For this, a virtualization lab at
NPS was being restructured both physically and virtually
throughout the summer. This lab, in the Information
Sciences Department, was connected to the Ethical
Hacking lab in the Computer Science Department. Both
departments are under the Graduate School of
Operational and Information Sciences (GSOIS). The
connection is to be used in a proof of concept for a
master’s level thesis where volunteers are to break into
virtual phones and be tracked as they go through mock
servers. This project was a journey through the open
systems interconnection (OSI) Model as many layers were
tempered with in order to have the needed connections.
Figure
connected and sharing
resources
Control
(brain intact)
• Virtualization Lab has updated hardware and
software
Maze difficulty SAS cards are now
• 99% of malfunctioning
index
fully operational
• LT Madden will run his proof of concept late
August 2012
The network and hardware we helped lay out will
be used in classrooms in GSOIS by students such as
LT Madden who will be able to use this new
resource to run his proof of concept.
Figure 2: The green capacitors that were removed
since they were shorted out. We could tell they were
no longer functional due to a bulge that developed
on the previously flat top of the capacitor.
Figure 8: Network map of both labs now linked and
sharing resources.
Figure 5: Repaired SAS Card being installed back into
server.
Acknowledgments
We thank Hartnell College, Naval Postgraduate School,
Cebrowski Institute, Lecturer Albert Barreto, Senior
Lecturer Scott Cote, LT Robert Madden, Alison Kerr,
Andy Newton, Patrick McNeill, Cassandra Martin, Ana
Hernandez
Figure 1: Network layout to connect the two labs
as one collaborating network
Methods and Procedures
The Virtualization Lab was prepared to be connected to
the Ethical Hacking Lab. Due to the nature of the Ethical
Hacking Lab, it was essential that the Virtualization Lab
was on an isolated network, away from the internet and
the school’s main network. The Server racks in the
Virtualization Lab needed to be updated up to ESXi 5.0 for
compatibility and IP addresses were changed to avoid
conflicting addresses in the new network. Fleet Numerical
was outsourcing servers and they were distributed among
faculty in NPS. However, all the servers had bad SAS cards
due to shorted capacitors. The bad capacitors had to be
replaced. Some required unconventional soldering
techniques since one of the capacitors on each card had
little to no heat plating thus the heat was often
distributed to the card rather than the solder.
Considerable experimentation was required to find a
solution.
Servers and switches were physically unscrewed and
rearranged. An external CD drive was used to load the
new operating system onto all the servers.
Figure 3: The black capacitors were purchased to
replace the shorted out green capacitors. They were
a little taller so we simply would lay them flat on the
card upon soldering.
Figure 6: Installing repaired SAS cards into server
racks in multiple labs.
For further information
Please contact:
abarreto@nps.edu (Albert Barreto)
claudiagarcia16@gmail.com (Claudia Garcia)
kelseytankesl@aol.com (Kelsey Tankesley)
More information can be obtained at:
Figure 5.
Figure 4: To solder the SAS cards we clamped them
down on a table and applied heat with a soldering
tool. Solder flux was necessary to properly melt the
solder on the capacitors that had no heat plating.
Figure 7: Map layout of LT Madden’s honeypot layout
for his proof of concept Master’s Thesis. When the
two labs had updated hardware, preparations were
made to run the proof of concept project. The Ethical
hacking room was mapped in order to assign static
virtual machines to each workstation for his exercise.
3C Program:
Cebrowski Institute:
GSOIS: