AfNOG / AIS 2013 Network Monitoring and Management Workshop (NM-E)

Dates: June 10-14 (Monday-Friday), 2013
Venue: ​TopFloor training center, Elunda 2 Building, ​Addis Abba Roundabout, Lusaka, Zambia
Course Language: English. This course available in French as ​NM-F.
Instructor Languages: English, Swahili and Spanish.

Goal

This workshop is part of the ​AfNOG 2013 and ​AIS 2013 workshops, tutorials, meeting and conference and 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, June 9th in the afternoon at the ​TopFloor training center, Elunda 2 Building, ​Addis Abba Roundabout, Lusaka. Last years Introductory Session is available at ​here.

Required Software in Class

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

Workshop Items

• Agenda
• Instructors
• Participants
• Photos: Photos : Group Photos: (Classroom | Roof): Facebook Photos: ​here
• ​Mailing list
• ​Survey
• Books
• Reference Materials
• Overview of Tools to be Covered

Network Operations

• Network Diagram
• ​Configuration Files
• ​Software : ​Putty SSH

NOC

Software that will be available during the workshop
Items will be linked and access credentials available:

• Cacti: Performance
• Nagios: Availability
• Netdot: Documentation
• NfSen: Performance
• Observium: Availability / Performance
• Request Tracker: Incidents / Ticketing
• RRDTool: Performance
• Smokeping: Reliability
• WebSVN:: Router configs from RANCID via Web

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

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