Campus Network Design and Management at SANOG 17

Dates: January 11-15, 2011
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Host: ​LEARN (Lanka Education and Research Network)
Venue: Galadari Hotel, Colombo: ​http://www.galadarihotel.lk/

Workshop Goals

• Train university network engineering staff on best practices for operation of campus networks
• Improve technical skills with university network personnel in operating their physical networks
• Strengthen the LEARN technical community (human network) in developing LEARN's cyberinfrastructure
• Learn how to use open source software to monitor availability and performance in your campus network.
• Learn about network security fundamentals and practices
• Develop a design methodology to facilitate successful participation in national and regional Research and Education Networks.

Requirements

• Some Linux or UNIX command line experience.
• Knowledge of Layer 2 and layer 3 Network basics (IP).

Required Equipment

• Participants must bring their own Ethernet or WiFi-capable laptops with an OS (Windows, Linux/UNIX, MacOS, etc.) capable of running an SSH client and a web browser.

Recommended Software

• ​PuTTY for Windows (SSH)
• Linux, UNIX (Mac OS) already have SSH installed.

Workshop Items

• Agenda (includes links to presentations and schedule)
• Overviews of the tools covered
• ​Configuration Files
• Participants
• Workshop Mailing List
• ​Photos : Group Photo : ​LEARN SANOG 17 Photos
• ​Video of Class Discussion (74MB) (m4v file - MPEG 4)

Network Operations Center

• Network Diagram
• Network Addresses
• Software Installed

Software Installed and Available During the Workshop

• Cacti: (username: admin, pw: <class pw>)
• Nagios: (username: nagiosadmin, pw: <class pw>)
• NFSen: (NetFlow GUI)
• Request Tracker: (username: sysadm, pw: <class pw>)
• Smokeping

Network Documentation

• Student PCs
• Servers
• Routers
• Switches

Help

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• TitleIndex -- Complete list of local wiki pages