2692 Courses in Manchester

Advanced Ethernet switching training course description An advanced hands on switching course for those already familiar with the basics such as STP and VLANs. The course starts with advanced diagnostics and network monitoring moving onto switch protocols. A large part of the second day is spent implementing QoS and security such as 802.1x. What will you learn Troubleshoot switching. Explain how a number of switch protocols work, including: UDLD LLDP LACP DTP VTP/MVRP Design redundancy into switched networks. Implement QoS on switches. Harden switches. Advanced Ethernet switching training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Ethernet switches. Prerequisites: None Duration 2 days Advanced Ethernet switching training course contents Switches Switch review, troubleshooting, diagnostics, L2 traceroute, UDLD, message logging, Wireshark, port mirroring, Hands on: Troubleshooting. Network management SNMP, SNMPv3, RMON, Netflow, Sflow. System logging. Hands on: Managing switches with SNMP. Syslogd. Switches and automatic configuration Auto-MDIX, LLDP, CDP, Link aggregation, LACP, Link state tracking, VLANS and tags, DTP. Hands on: Discovery, dynamic configuration. RSTP 802.1w, new port roles and states, new BPDUs, rapid convergence, topology changes, compatibility issues. L3 redundancy, VRRP, GLBP. Design issues. Hands on: RSTP, VRRP. VLANS: Registration protocols Why VTP? VTP modes, how VTP works, VTP pruning. GVRP, MVRP. Hands on: Dynamic VLANs STP variations and alternatives 802.1s (multiple spanning tree), regions, rings, L2MP, TRILL. Hands on: 802.1s Multicasting What is multicasting, Static configuration, IGMP snooping, CGMP, MVR. IPv6 MLD snooping. Hands on: Multicast through switches QoS Storm control, DSCP, 802.1Q, 802.1p, mapping, classification, policy, Ingress queues, Egress queues. Dropping frames, limiting bandwidth. Hands on: Voice through switches. More VLANS Native VLANs, Voice VLANs Security Static MAC addresses, AAA, RADIUS, Port based authentication, 802.1x, Guest VLANs, L2 attacks, SSH, HTTPS. Hands on: Hardening switches. Miscellaneous NTP, managing the MAC address table, managing system resources, SDN

Netgear switches training course description A hands on course covering the product specifics of Netgear switches. Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting are all covered in a practical oriented way. What will you learn Install Netgear switches. Use the command line interface and the web based interface to manage Netgear switches. Configure and troubleshoot Netgear switches. Perform software upgrades. Netgear switches training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working with Netgear switches. Particularly aimed at engineers and technicians supporting Netgear switches. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days Netgear switches training course content Introduction How Ethernet works with hubs, How Ethernet works with switches. Installing Netgear switches. Hands on Building a network with a hub, building a network with a Netgear switch. Basic troubleshooting The Netgear switch range, LEDs, cabling issues, factory resets, default settings. Hands on Building a network with multiple Netgear switches. Configuration methods Managed vs. unmanaged switches, Console port access, telnet, web based access, SNMP, saving configurations, NVRAM, switch stacks, stacking ports. Hands on Accessing the switch using the console, IP address configuration, telnet. Console interface Password protection, the menus, menu options. Hands on Setting a password, displaying the switch configuration. Web based interface Getting started, basic format. Hands on Configuring the switch using the web interface. Port configuration Common port configuration tasks, port trunking. Hands on Configuring ports. STP configuration What is STP? Configuring STP. Hands on Enabling and disabling STP, configuring STP VLAN configuration What are VLANS? 802.1Q, tagged/untagged, creating VLANS, applying VLANS. Hands on Setting up VLANS, setting up 802.1Q, Inter VLAN traffic. Housekeeping TFTP, upgrades Hands on Boot from net. SNMP SNMP configuration, NMS's. Hands on Using SNMP to manage a Netgear switch, putting it all together: troubleshooting.

DevOps training course description This course is an introduction to DevOps. The course emphasizes communication, collaboration , integration, and automation to improve the workflow between developers and IT operations professionals. Improved workflows lead to more opportunities to design software and services in a more agile fashion. This course is a basis for discovering the most important DevOps concepts and to understand the principles and methods behind this. The course will leave you with the inspiration to be the advocate of change. What will you learn Explain DevOps principles. Describe the relationship between Agile , Lean and IT Service Management ( ITSM). Describe methods for automation and technology factors. Describe considerations when changing. Describe challenges, risks and critical success factors. DevOps training course details Who will benefit: IT development, IT operations and IT service management. Prerequisites: Introduction to data communications & networking. Duration 2 days DevOps training course contents Why DevOps? Introduction DevOps Goals DevOps Added value of DevOps Proven Results DevOps for businesses DevOps principles (The Three Ways) DevOps and other frameworks DevOps and Agile DevOps and Lean DevOps and IT Service Management DevOps culture Characteristics of a DevOps culture Organizational Considerations DevOps DevOps stakeholders DevOps roles DevOps teams DevOps organizational structures DevOps methods Continuous Integration Continuous delivery Continuous deployment Value stream mapping Kanban Theory of Constraints Improvement Kata Deming's quality circle ITSM processes DevOps and Automation Methods for DevOps automation Longevity and tools categories DevOps applications Transitioning to a DevOps culture. Implementation Challenges, risks and critical success factors Measuring DevOps successes

SolarWinds NPM training course description A hands on course providing a solid foundation on network management using SolarWinds. The course specifically focusses on SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor. The course starts with configuring agents and device discovery, onto exploiting SNMP with SolarWinds and then Alerts, reports and customisation of menus, views and maps. What will you learn Discover devices using Solarwinds. Use Solarwinds. Poll and monitor devices using Solarwinds. Create Alarms and reports. Diagnose faults using Solarwinds. SolarWinds NPM training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Solarwinds. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days SolarWinds NPM training course content Getting started with SolarWinds What is SolarWinds, Products, ICMP, WMI, SNMP. Installing SolarWinds. Hands on Connecting to SolarWinds, configuring users and groups, using SolarWinds. Device discovery with SolarWinds Manual discovery, automatic discovery, controlling IP discovery, polling, thresholds. Hands on Adding ICMP only, SNMP and WMI nodes. dependencies, groups. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. MIBs, SNMPv3, obtaining MIB information. Universal device poller. Hands on MIB browser, MIB walking, syslog. Message center. Using SolarWinds The home page, Views, changing views, adding views. Hands on Views and menu customisation. Server monitoring. Alerts Filters, acknowledgements, notes. Basic alert configuration, Advanced alert configuration. Hands on Configuring alerts. Reports Creating reports, on demand reports, scheduled reports, customising reports, adding reports to views. Standard reports. Hands on Performance reports. Graphs. Maps Orion Network Atlas, the background, adding objects, connect now, applying to views. Hands on Customising a map. Administration Backups, the database.

Introduction to Virtualization course description A comprehensive tour of virtualization. The course concentrates on the actual technologies involved as opposed to any one vendor solution. What will you learn Explain the concepts of virtualization. Partition servers. Create Virtual Machines. Introduction to Virtualization course details Who will benefit: Anyone looking for an introduction to Virtualization. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days Introduction to Virtualization course contents Virtualization Concepts What is Virtualisation? What are virtual machines (VMs)? Virtualisation Landscape. Network Virtualisation. Suitability for Organisations. Advantages of deploying Virtualisation. Downsides of deploying Virtualisation. Overview of Virtualisation products. Hypervisors What is a hypervisor? Difference between type 1 and 2 hypervisors. Available hypervisors. Hypervisors and device drivers. Hands on: Installing Oracle VirtualBox on Windows. Creating/Importing/Configuring VMs. Virtualization Hosts Hardware and resource requirements. Installation of the hypervisor. Hands on: Installing Hyper-V role into Windows Server. Creating/Importing/Configuring VMs. Virtual Machines Creating virtual machines. Resource requirements. Settings. Installation of the guest OS. Additional tools/ extensions for hypervisor integration. VM files and their uses. Virtual hard disk and their formats. Hardware pass through. Hands on: Connecting to VMWare ESXi via WebGUI and using ESXi to create/import/configure VMs. VM Snapshots/Checkpoints What is a snapshot? How to use them and how they impact performance? Creating/deleting/merging of snapshots. Hands on: Using ESXi to create/manage snapshots. Command Line use on the Hypervisor Interacting with the hypervisor through the command line. Simple commands to configure the hypervisor and VMs. Simple scripts. Hands on: Connecting to VMWare ESXi via PowerCLI to manipulate VMs and snaphshots. Virtualization Storage Different types of storage: local vs remote. Local and remote storage technologies. Configuring storage. Hands on: Using ESXi to deploy VMs on remote NFS storage. Virtual Networking How is networking done in virtualization environments. What is a virtual switch and vNIC and what are their performance characteristics? NIC teaming and trunking in the virtual world. Port groups and isolation. Physical NICs and their use in virtual switches. Hands on: Using ESXi to create and configure vswitches and networking. Templates and clones What is a template? What is a clone? When to use templates and clones to optimize VM deployment. Migrating/Importing VMs What is migration? Migrating compute and storage. Importing VMs from files or physical machines. Hands on: Using VMWare vCenter Server to clone/ template/migrate VMs, tag resources, create local user accounts and assign permissions. VMs and Backups Taking backups of your VMs. Restoring your VMs from backups. Virtualization and Licensing Different licensing models and costs. Containerization Concepts What is a container and how is it different from a virtual machine. When to use containers. Docker and Kubernetes

Total SIPp course description SIPp is a robust performance testing tool designed for evaluating the SIP protocol. This comprehensive course takes you on a journey from the initial installation of SIPp to mastering fundamental scenarios, exploring diverse architectures, delving into statistics analysis, and crafting XML scenario files. What will you learn Monitor SIP traffic with SIPp. Use SIPp for performance testing. Use the standard SIPp scenarios. Create custom scenarios in XML for SIPp. Total SIPp course details Who will benefit: Those working with SIP. Prerequisites: Definitive SIP for engineers Duration 2 days Total SIPp course contents Introduction What is SIPp? SIP review: UAC, UAS, INVITE, BYE. Sample SIP call flows. Hands on Wireshark, SIP call flow. Installing SIPp Getting SIPp, installing SIPp. Using SIPp Running sipp. sipp with uas scenario, sipp with uac scenario. The integrated scenarios. Online help. Hands on uac, uas. Controlling SIPp Hot keys, commands, UDP socket. Running SIPp in the background. Traffic control. SIPp performance testing. Hands on Changing call rates, remote control, pausing traffic. Monitoring SIP traffic Scenario screen, statistics. Response times, counters. Hands on Monitoring SIP traffic. More integrated scenarios SIPp and media and RTP. 3PCC. 3PCC extended. Transport modes: UDP, TCP, TLS, SCTP, IPv6 mono and multi socket. Hands on Third Party Call Control. XML What is XML? Content, markup, elements, attributes. Start tags, end tags. Hands on Displaying embedded scenarios, looking at the XML files of the integrated scenarios. Creating your own XML scenarios scenario, message commands, send, recv, nop, pause, sendCmd, recvCmd, common sipp scenario attributes, command specific sipp scenario attributes. XML DTD, jEdit. Hands on uac and uas scenario XML files. Recv actions Log and warning, exec, variables, variable types, variable scope. External variables. Hands on RTP streaming, Change a calls network destination, injection files. Regular expressions What is an RE. POSIX 1003.2. Re injection. Validation. Hands on regex example.

Definitive Puppet training course description Puppet is a framework and toolset for configuration management. This course covers Puppet to enable delegates to manage configurations. Hands on sessions follow all the major sections. What will you learn Deploy Puppet. Manage configurations with Puppet. Build hosts with Puppet. Produce reports with Puppet. Definitive Puppet training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working with Puppet. Prerequisites: Linux fundamentals. Duration 2 days Definitive Puppet training course contents Getting started with Puppet What is Puppet, Selecting the right version of Puppet, Installing Puppet, Configuring Puppet. Developing and deploying Puppet The puppet apply command and modes of operation, Foreground Puppet master, Developing Puppet with Vagrant, Environments, Making changes to the development environment, Testing the new environments with the Puppet agent, Environment branching and merging, Dynamic Puppet environments with Git branches, Summary, Resources. Scaling Puppet Identifying the challenges, Running the Puppet master with Apache and Passenger, Testing the Puppet master in Apache, Load balancing multiple Puppet masters, Scaling further, Load balancing alternatives. Measuring performance, Splay time, Summary, Going further, Resources. Externalizing Puppet configuration External node classification, Storing node configuration in LDAP, Summary, Resources. Exporting and storing configuration Virtual resources, Getting started with exported and stored configurations, Using exported resources, Expiring state resources, Summary, Resources. Puppet consoles The foreman, Puppet enterprise console, Puppetboard, Summary, Resources. Tools and integration Puppet forge and the module tool, Searching and installing a module from the forge, Generating a module, Managing module dependencies, Testing the modules, Developing Puppet modules with Geppetto, Summary, Resources. Reporting with Puppet Getting started, Configuring reporting, Report processors, Custom reporting, Other Puppet reporters, Summary, Resources. Extending Facter and Puppet Writing and distributing custom facts, Developing custom types, providers and functions, Summary, Resources, Complex data structures, Additional backends, Hiera functions in depth, Module data bindings, Hiera examples. Jiera-2, Summary, Resources. Mcollective Installing and configuring Mcollective, testing, Mcollective plugins, accessing hosts with Metadata. Hiera Lists, initial Hiera configuration, Hiera command line utility, complex data structures, additional backends, Hiera functions in depth, module data bindings. Hiera-2.

Total NetFlow training course description A comprehensive hands on course covering NetFlow. The course starts with the basics of flows moving swiftly onto configuring NetFlow and studying the information it provides. What will you learn Describe NetFlow. Configure generators and collectors. Recognise how NetFlow can be used. Describe the issues in using NetFlow. Compare NetFlow with SNMP, RMON and sflow. Total NetFlow training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with NetFlow. Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation Duration 2 days Total NetFlow for engineers What is NetFlow? Flows. Where to monitor traffic. Hands on Wireshark flow analysis. Getting started with NetFlow NetFlow configuration. Hands on Accessing NetFlow data using the CLI. NetFlow architecture Generators and collectors. When flows are exported. NetFlow reporting products. SolarWinds. Hands on Collector software. NetFlow features and benefits Real time segment statistics, real time top talkers, traffic matrices. Hands on Traffic analysis with NetFlow. NetFlow issues NetFlow impact, agent resources, server resources, comparing NetFlow with SNMP, RMON and sflow. Hands on Advanced NetFlow configuration. Export formats Flow aging timers, NetFlow versions, export formats, templates, IPFIX. Hands on NetFlow packet analysis. NetFlow MIBs The NetFlow MIB, configuration, retrieving NetFlow statistics. Hands on Integrating NetFlow with SNMP.

Signalling training course description An intensive course that defines and explores the signalling methods that are to be found in today's telecommunications services. What will you learn Describe the Functionality and Features of Signalling. Describe the Functionality of Analogue & Digital Subscriber Signalling. Describe the various types of signalling used on different network types. Describe the Functionality of Private Network Signalling. Describe the Functionality of Public Network Signalling. Signalling training course details Who will benefit: Personnel involved with systems design, implementation and support. Prerequisites: Telecommunications Introduction Duration 2 days Signalling training course contents Introduction What is Signalling?, Standards, ITU-T Recommendations, Signalling Categories - Supervisory Addressing, E.164, Call Information, Network Management, Network Components, Inband/Outband Switch Signalling, Analogue Vs Digital Signalling. Analogue Subscriber Signalling Analogue Local Loops/Switches/Trunks, Digital Switches/Local Loops, Telephone Handset, Accessing the Local Exchange, Pulse/Tone Dialling. Digital Subscriber Signalling Integrated Digital Access, DASS2 & DPNSS, DASS2 - Call, IMUX, Euro ISDN, Q.931 Call Control, Message Identification, Message Types, Call Establishment Messages, Call Clearing. Network Types Service Types, Circuit Switched, Packet Switched, Signalling Terminology, In-Channel Signalling, G.704, Performance and Quality, Digital Signalling, CAS, CAS Applications, Foreign Exchange, CCS, Break-In/Out Private Network Signalling Types Networking PABXs, Inter PABX Analogue Signalling Methods, E & M, Tone-On-Idle, Inter PABX Digital Signalling Methods, DPNSS, DPNSS Deployment, PABX Support for DPNSS, DPNSS Call, Q.Sig, Q.Sig support/functionality/protocol, Message Overview, Call Establishment. Public Network Signalling SS7, SS7 Operations, SS7 Topology, SSP, STP, SCP, Database Types - CMSDB NP LIDB HLR VLR, Signalling Modes, Link Types, Further Redundancy, Linksets, SS7 addressing, Point Codes, Sub-System, Global Title Addressing and Translation, ANSI PCs, ITU-T PCs, SS7 Protocol Stack, MTP Level 1, MTP Level 2, Flow Control, FISU, LSSU, MSU, MSU SIF, MTP Level 3, SCCP, TCAP, TUP, Facility Format, Main Facilities, Flow Control Negotiation, Closed User Groups, Reverse Charging, Fast Select Facility, Throughput Class Negotiation, Call Barring, On-Line Facility Registration. BTUP, ISDN ISUP, Supplementary Services, ISUP Call - IAM, Progress/Answer/Suspend/ Resume/Release Messages, Intelligent Network (IN) Introduction, IN Evolution, IN Conceptual Model, IN Target Services & Service Features, Service Independent Building Blocks

NFV training course description Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) brings many benefits, this training course cuts through the hype and looks at the technology, architecture and products available for NFV. What will you learn Explain how NFV works. Describe the architecture of NFV. Explain the relationship between NFV and SDN. Recognise the impact NFV will have on existing networks. NFV training course details Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to know more about NFV. Prerequisites: Introduction to Virtualization. Duration 2 days NFV training course content Introduction What is NfV? What are network Functions? NfV benefits, NfV market drivers. ETSI NfV framework. Virtualization review Server, storage and network virtualization and NfV. Virtual machines, containers and docker. Data centres, clouds, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS. Virtualization of Network Functions Network virtualization versus Network Function virtualization. ETSI NfV architecture ETSI documents, Architecture overview, compute domain, hypervisor domain, infrastructure network domain. IETF and NfV Creating services, Service Functions, Service Function Chaining. SPRING and source packet routing. YANG and NetConf. RESTCONF. VLANs, VPNs, VXLAN. MANO Management and Orchestration. OpenStack, OpenDaylight PaaS and NfV. The VNF domain. Service graphs, MANO descriptors, Open orchestration. The virtualization layer VM centric model, containers versus hypervisors, FD.io. Summary Deploying NfV, performance, testing. Futures.