APRICOT 2014 Network Monitoring and Management Workshop

Dates: February 18-22 (Tuesday-Saturday), 2014
Venue: ​Taylor's University, Lakeside Campus, Room E8.04 Block E, Level 8 (​Google Map)
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
  • All workshop files: ​ZIP (57MB) : ​TAR.GZ (57MB)
• Instructors
• Participants
• ​Photos
• ​Survey
• Books
• Reference Materials
• Overview of Tools to be Covered

Network Operations

• Network Diagram

NOC

Software available during the workshop:

• 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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