APRICOT 2013 - Network Management & Monitoring Workshop

Dates: Feb 19-23 (Tuesday-Sunday), 2013
Venue: Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore
Course Language: English

Goal

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.

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  Survey
• References

Network Operations

• Network Diagram
•  Configuration Files

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)

Help

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

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