Course Agenda

Schedule

Session 1	09:00 - 10:45
Break	10:45 - 11:00
Session 2	11:00 - 13:00
Lunch	13:00 - 14:00
Session 3	14:00 - 16:00
Break	16:00 - 16:15
Session 4	16:15 - 18:15
Dinner	18:30 - ...

Instructors

Name		Organization	Country
Hervey Allen	HA	​NSRC	Chile
Kevin Chege	KC	​NSRC/​KENET	Kenya
Sunday Folayan	SF	​SKANNET	Nigeria
Jens Kuehlers	JK	​Google	Germany
Cleven Mmari	CM	​University of Oregon	Tanzania
Phil Regnauld	PR	​NSRC	Denmark

Agenda

Monday	Topic	Lead	Presentations	Exercises	Referenced Software
Session I	Class Introduction	HA	pdf
	Introduction to Classroom Lab	HA	diagram
Session II	Intro to Network Monitoring & Mgmt	PR	pdf
Session III	Definitions & Performance Measurement	PR	pdf	text
Session IV	Cisco/HP Configuration Elements	JK	pdf	text
Tuesday
Session I	NOCs and Documentation	HA	pdf		​Trac
	Netdot Demonstration	HA/KC	pdf		​Netdot
Session II	Version Control	PR	pdf		​subversion
	RANCID and SVNWeb	JK	pdf	text	​RANCID
Session III	SNMP	JK	pdf	text part2-text	​net-snmp
Session IV	MRTG and RRDTool Intro	PR	pdf	text	​MRTG ​RRDtool
Evening	Virtualization	PR/HA/JJ
Wednesday
Session I	The "Big Three"
	Cacti (Performance)	JK	pdf	in preso	​Cacti
Session II-III	Cacti	JK		additional: pdf
Session IV	Nagios (Availability)	KC	pdf	text	​Nagios
Thursday
Session I	The Big Three cont.
	Nagios	KC
Session II	Smokeping (Reliability)	KC	pdf	text	​Smokeping
Session III	Smokeping	KC
Session IV	Logging ((R)syslog, Swatch, Tenshi)	PR	pdf	text text	​Syslog-ng / ​Swatch
Friday
Session I	Ticketing Systems	HA	pdf	pdf	​Request Tracker
Session II	Nagios, Cacti, Smokeping & Tickets	HA		text
	Wireless and Network Monitoring	Guest*
Session III	Netflow	PR	pdf	text	​Cisco NetFlow
Session IV	Netflow	PR
	Evaluations			​Evaluation
	Exam			pdf
Social	Certificates

*Guest Speaker

Sebastian Buettrich, wireless expert extraordinaire, will visit class on Friday and give a short talk about Wireless Networks and how they fit in with Network Monitoring and Management.

Optional Topics

Potential topics that we could address during the week if there is time:

• Introduction to cryptography
• OpenNMS
• BandwidthD