AfNOG / AIS 2014 Network Monitoring and Management Workshop (NM-E)

Dates: May 26-30 (Monday-Friday), 2014
Venue: Palais du Peuple, Djibouti
Course Language: English. This course available in French as ​NM-F.
Instructor Languages: English, Swahili, Spanish, German, Yoruba

Goal

This workshop is part of the ​AfNOG 2014 and ​AIS14 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, May 25th in the afternoon at the workshop venue.

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 Medium (1.1M) and Large (6.5M) and Classroom Picture
• ​Mailing list
• ​Survey
• Books?
• Reference Materials
• Overview of Tools to be Covered

Network Operations

• Network Diagram
• Software : ​Putty SSH

NOC

Software that was available during the workshop.

• Cacti: Performance
• Nagios: Availability
• Netdot: Documentation
• NfSen: Performance
• Observium: Availability / Performance
• Request Tracker: Incidents / Ticketing
• 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
• Sandbox -- here?

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