WACREN 2015 Network Monitoring and Measurement Workshop

Dates: Sep 28-Oct 2 (Monday-Friday), 2015
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Venue: ​NgREN Monitoring Center
Course Language: English

Event Web Site

​https://indico.wacren.net/event/10/overview

Goals

This workshop is designed for engineers and system staffs at Universities and large 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 and Organizers
• Participants
• Sponsors
• Photos: Group Photo : Class Photos
• ​Mailing list
• ​Suvey (Available starting Oct. 1)
• Reference Materials
• Overview of Tools to be Covered

Network Operations

• Network Diagram
• Software : Putty SSH

NOC

Software that will be available during the workshop.

• Cacti: Performance
• Nagios: Availability
• Netdot: Documentation
• NfSen: Performance
• LibreNMS: Availability / Performance
• perfSONAR: Network measurement and performance tool
• 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

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