MENOG 11 - Network Monitoring and Management Workshop

Dates: Sep 30 - Oct 4 (Sunday - Thursday), 2012
Venue: Four Seasons Hotel, Amman, Jordan
Course Language: English
Instructor Languages: English, French

Goal

This workshop is part of the MENOG 11 workshop and conference, taking place in Amman, Jordan, September 30 - October 9, 2012. This workshop is designed for engineers and system staffs at ISPs and large networks including academic networks who are involved with system management, network monitoring and management and problem response. The course is for those who need to manage diverse Network and NOC operations. Please review the Agenda to see the topics to be covered. Labs constitute about 60% of the course.

Requirements

• A laptop with wireless capability
• IPv4 addressing and general network concepts.
• Knowledge of UNIX and/or Linux.

If you need assistance gaining this knowledge please be sure to attend the Unix and Networking Introduction session on Sunday, July 1 in the afternoon at the Hotel Sofitel Fiji.

Required Software in Class

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

Workshop Items

• Agenda
• Instructors
• Participants
• Photos: Group Photo
• ​Mailing list
• References
• Overview of Tools Covered

Network Operations

• Network Diagram
• ​Configuration Files
• ​Software

Software available during class

• Cacti
  • login user: guest password: guest
  • login as user: admin, password <class password>
• Nagios
  • login as user: guest password: guest
  • Nagios Network Diagram
• Netdot
  • login as user: admin, password <class password>
• NfSen
  • Request Tracker
  • login as user: sysadm, password <class password>
• RRDTool
  • Traffic on classroom router interfaces
• Smokeping
• WebSVN (RANCID router configs)

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• TitleIndex -- Complete list of local wiki pages
• WikiFormatting -- Trac wiki formatting language

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