Sample outline for Network Monitoring and Management

Outline

Day 1

• Introductions, Workshop Details
• Introduction to Network Monitoring & Mgmt
• Linux brief
• Cisco IOS Configuration Basics
• SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

Day 2

• Cacti - Graphing tool (incuding SNMP)
• Observium - Automated Network Monitoring and discovery
• Smokeping - Latency/Round? Trip Time, Jitter and packet loss monitor

Day 3

• Nagios - Server and Service monitoring and alerting
• Log (syslog) Management - Collecting logs and monitoring them for patterns
• Documentation, NOCs and Netdot (Network Documentation Tool)

Day 4

• Netdot
• Netflow, NfSen? - traffic analysis and exploration

Day 5

• RANCID: network equipment configuration backup, change tracking & automation
• RT (Request Tracker): Ticketing systems for helpdesk / support
• Integrating Nagios & Cacti with RT
• Exam and certificates

Agenda

Sample Time Schedule

Session 1	08:30 - 10:30
Break	10:30 - 11:00
Session 2	11:00 - 13:00
Lunch	13:00 - 14:00
Session 3	14:00 - 15:30
Break	15:30 - 16:00
Session 4	16:00 - 18:00

DAY 1	Topic		Presentations	Exercises	Software Used
Session 1	Welcome, Introductions, Workshop Details
	Questionnaire
	Linux Basics for Using Class VMs
Session 2	Intro to Network Monitoring & Management
	Cisco Configuration Basics
Session 3	SNMP				​net-snmp
Session 4	SNMP Continued
DAY 2
Session 1	Cacti				​Cacti
Session 2	Cacti Continued
Session 3	Observium				​Obserfvium
Session 4	SmokePing				​SmokePing
DAY 3
Session 1	Nagios				​Nagios
Session 2	Nagios Continued
Session 3	Log Management				​rsyslog​Tenshi
Session 4	Documentation, NOCs and Netdot				​Netdot
DAY 4
Session 1	NetDot
Session 2	NetDot Continued
Session 3	NetFlow and NfSen				​Cisco NetFlow
Session 4	NetFlow and NfSen cont. (attack scenario)				​NfSen
DAY 5
Session 1	RANCID and SVNWeb				​RANCID
Session 1	Ticketing Systems (RT)				​Request Tracker
Session 2	Nagios and RT
Session 3	Class Summary/Q&A
	Exam
	Survey
	Certificates