Network Management & Monitoring

Dates: March 10 - 14, 2013
Venue: Radisson Royal Hotel, Dubai
Course Language: English
Instructor Languages: English, Dutch

Goals

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.

This course was taught by Sean McAvoy and Menno Schepers of the ​RIPE NCC for the Middle East Network Operators Group (​MENOG) using materials provided by the Network Startup Resource Center (​NSRC).

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

Network Operations

• Network Diagram
• Configuration Files
• Software

Software available during class

• Cacti
  • login user: guest password: guess
  • login user admin, password <class password>
• Nagios
  • login as user: guest password: guess
  • Nagios Network Diagram
• Netdot
  • login as user: admin, password <class password>
• NfSen
• Smokeping
• WebSVN

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• ​The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
• ​Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.

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