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Ansible training course description The course focusses on the use of ansible for network devices instead of its usual server use case. The course progresses from the basics of ansible and playbooks onto using network specific modules including NAPALM. The use Jinja2 templating with ansible is also studied. Hands on sessions with ansible configuring routers and switches follow all major sections. What will you learn Automate tasks with ansible. Write ansible playbooks. Configure network devices with ansible. Troubleshoot network devices with ansible. Use ansible network modules. Use jinja2 templates with ansible. Ansible training course details Who will benefit: Network engineers. Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation Duration 2 days Ansible training course contents What is ansible? The language, the engine, the framework. Uses of ansible, orchestration. Hands on Installing ansible, enabling SSH on network devices. Ansible architecture How ansible 'normally' works, Agentless, SSH, ansible and Python, modules, how ansible work on network devices, Configuration management, inventories, playbooks, modules, ansible.cfg. Hands on Getting started, running ad hoc commands. Playbooks ansible-playbook, users, YAML, plays, tasks, modules. ansible-vault. Hands on Running playbooks. More playbooks Handlers, variables, environmental variables, playbook variables, inventory variables, variable scope and precedence, accessing variables, facts, ansible vault. Conditionals, wait_for. Hands on Using variables and conditions in playbooks. Inventories /etc/ansible/hosts, inventory variables, static inventories, dynamic inventories. Hands on Inventories and variables. Ansible network modules Built in modules, custom modules, return values. ansible-doc -l. connection: local, Cisco modules, Juniper module, Hands on Using modules for your network devices. Ansible templatings The template module, the assemble module, jinja2 templates, for, if else. Hands on Configuring network devices from templates. Roles and includes Dynamic includes, Handler includes, playbook includes. Roles, role parts: handlers, files, templates, cross platform roles, ansible galaxy. Hands on includes example, building roles. Ansible and NAPALM Installation, napalm-ansible, NAPALM modules: napalm_diff-yang, napalm_get_facts, napalm_install_config, napalm_parse_yang, napalm_ping, napalm_translate_yang, napalm_validate. Hands on Using NAPALM modules in ansible.

Samba training course description Samba enables UNIX/Linux machines to act as Microsoft File and Print servers. This two day hands on training course progresses from the basics of installing samba and simple configurations through to authentication issues and troubleshooting. What will you learn Install and configure Samba. Administrate file and printer sharing. Secure Samba servers. Troubleshoot Samba Samba training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Samba. Prerequisites: Intro to UNIX Systems Administration TCP/IP Foundation. Duration 2 days Samba training course contents What is Samba? File and print servers, Samba server roles, Windows networking, NetBIOS, SMB. Hands on Microsoft File and Print shares, analysing the network traffic. Installing Samba Source, binaries, where to find samba, building and compiling Samba. Hands on Download and install Samba. Controlling Samba Samba daemons, starting and stopping Samba, smbcontrol, Samba net command, smb.conf. Viewing Samba status, smbclient. Hands on Starting and stopping Samba, testing the server. Samba configuration Simple shares, smb.conf variables, configuration from a web browser, swat, enabling access to swat. Hands on Configuring samba servers and clients. File sharing Basic shares, [homes], locking options, UNIX file permissions, controlling user access, Windows ACLs, virtual samba servers, browsing. Hands on File sharing and browsing. Print sharing Sharing printers, UNIX printing, CUPS, printer drivers, [printers], PRINT$. Hands on Samba print server. Authentication Workgroups, domains, users and passwords, Samba domain security, Samba password backends: smbpasswd, tdbsam, nisplus, mysql, Active Directory. Hands on Securing samba shares. Troubleshooting Logging options, controlling logs, Samba utilities, network protocols, .SMB/CIFS. Performance tuning. Hands on Troubleshooting Samba

Junos Intermediate Routing training course description This course provides students with intermediate routing knowledge and configuration examples. The course includes an overview of protocol-independent routing features, load balancing and filter-based forwarding, OSPF, BGP, IP tunneling, and high availability (HA) features. Junos Intermediate Routing (JIR) is an intermediate-level course. What will you learn Describe typical uses, configure & monitor static, aggregate, and generated routes. Configure and share routes between routing instances. Explain the operations of OSPF. Describe BGP and its basic operations. Configure and monitor GRE and IP-IP tunnels. Junos Intermediate Routing training course details Who will benefit: Engineers responsible for configuring and monitoring devices running the Junos OS. Prerequisites: Intro to the Junos Operating System Duration 2 days Junos Intermediate Routing training course contents Protocol-Independent Routing Static Routes Aggregated Routes Generated Routes Martian Addresses Routing Instances Lab 1 Protocol-Independent Routing Load Balancing and Filter-Based Forwarding Overview of Load Balancing Configuring and Monitoring Load Balancing Overview of Filter-Based Forwarding Configuring and Monitoring Filter-Based Forwarding Lab 2 Load Balancing and Filter-Based Forwarding Open Shortest Path First Overview of OSPF Adjacency Formation and the Designated Router Election OSPF Scalability Configuring and Monitoring OSPF Basic OSPF Troubleshooting Lab 3 Open Shortest Path First Border Gateway Protocol Overview of BGP BGP Attributes IBGP Versus EBGP Configuring and Monitoring BGP Lab 4 Border Gateway Protocol IP Tunneling Overview of IP Tunneling GRE and IP-IP Tunnels Implementing GRE and IP-IP Tunnels Lab 5 IP Tunneling High Availability Overview of High Availability Networks Graceful Restart Graceful RE Switchover Nonstop Active Routing BFD VRRP Lab 6 High Availability Appendix A: IPv6 Introduction to IPv6 Routing Protocol Configuration Examples Tunneling IPv6 over IPv4 Lab 7 (Optional) IPv6 Appendix B: IS-IS Overview of IS-IS Overview of IS-IS PDUs Adjacency Formation and DIS Election Configuring and Monitoring IS-IS Basic IS-IS Troubleshooting Lab 8 (Optional) IS-IS Appendix C: Routing Information Protocol Introduction to RIP RIP Configuration Examples Monitoring and Troubleshooting RIP

Sockets programming training course description A hands on course for programmers using Sockets. It is important to recognise that the course assumes that delegates are already familiar with TCP/IP and Python. Practical exercises follow all the major theory sessions. What will you learn Read Python programs which use Sockets. Write Python programs which use Sockets. Debug Python programs which use Sockets. Sockets programming training course details Who will benefit: Programmers working with network applications. Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers Python for network engineers Duration 2 days Sockets programming training course contents What is a socket? Review of IP, ICMP, UDP vs TCP, IP addresses, protocol numbers, ports. API's, UNIX I/O, sockets. SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM. Hands on Compile and run code. The systems calls Clients and servers, structs, socket(), bind(), connect(), listen(), accept(), send(), recv(), sendto (), recvfrom(), close(), shutdown(), getpeername(), gethostname(). Hands on Walk through of example client and server code. First code TCP connections, passive opens, active opens. Hands on Write a simple 'hello world' server and client. Application protocols User character stream, ASCII turn taking, binary protocols. Hands on Raw SMTP, Writing a mail client. Clients Concurrency, polling, threads, event driven programming. Hands on Conferencing application. Servers Concurrency, stateful, stateless. Forks and execs. inetd. Hands on Running servers with and without inetd, chroot jails, conferencing server modifications. Advanced techniques Blocking, select(), partial send(s). Raw sockets, example sockets using Java, Perl and PHP. Hands on A broadcast application.

Advanced Asterisk training course description This 2 day hands-on Asterisk training course covers advanced Asterisk configuration including fault tolerant clusters, upgrading and patching Asterisk servers, firewall and NAT transversal, using databases to store Asterisk data. Practical sessions follow each major section to reinforce the theory. What will you learn Configure advanced Asterisk features. Utilise databases from Asterisk Integrate Asterisk with SIP servers. Build High Availability Asterisk clusters. Maintain and secure Asterisk servers. Advanced Asterisk training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with or evaluating Asterisk. Prerequisites: Definitive Asterisk for engineers Duration 2 days Advanced Asterisk training course contents Best Practice Review of basics, Channel best practice, dial plan best practise. Call Centre Features GUI, Asterisk Manager Interface, billing, CDR, advanced IVR, ACD, Vici Dial. Hands on Install Vici-Dial Asterisk and Databases MySQL, LDAP, ODBC, dial plan from a Database, storing CDR in a Database, Hands on Dial plan in MySQL, CDR in MySQL. TDM over Ethernet What is TDMoE, Asterisk to Asterisk TDMoE, Phone Bridge. Hands on * 2 * via TDMoE. High Availability Asterisk HA Linux - Virtual Servers, Fail-over steps, setting up HA Linux, configuring Asterisk for fail-over on HA Linux, Hands on Configure Asterisk HA. Advanced Dial plans Asterisk Gateway Interface, AGI IVR applications, Multiple switches sharing Dial plans, ENUM, DUNDI. Hands on Configure DUNDI. Integration Legacy PBX, SIP Proxys, OpenSER. Hands on Configure SER to work with Asterisk. Asterisk Maintenance Asterisk upgrades, implementing patches, advanced debugging, Security Firewalls, NAT, Asterisk security issues. Hands on Configure Asterisk to work through a Firewall and NAT.

RADIUS training course description A fast paced hands-on introduction to RADIUS. Moves from installation and configuration through to packet analysis and accounting. Practical exercises are spread throughout the course to maintain student interest. What will you learn Configure PPP and PAP/CHAP. Install and configure RADIUS servers. Describe how RADIUS works. Setup RADIUS accounting. Analyse RADIUS packets. Troubleshoot RADIUS installations. RADIUS training course details Who will benefit: Network Administrators. Support personnel. Anyone who will be working with RADIUS. Prerequisites: Knowledge of the TCP/IP protocols would be advantageous. Duration 2 days RADIUS training course contents What is RADIUS? AAA services, Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting, local AAA services, remote AAA services, What is RADIUS? RADIUS as a protocol, RADIUS as an architecture, RADIUS as a standard. Installing RADIUS RADIUS platforms, RADIUS servers, client server communications, services, daemons. Hands on Installing RADIUS and testing with NTRadPing. Server configuration Configuring clients on the server, shared secrets, usernames and passwords. IP address pools. Hands on Configuring a server and testing with NTRadPing. Client configuration Example clients, client configuration steps, enabling RADIUS, pointing clients to the server, shared secrets, example Cisco authentication, example Cisco authorization. Hands on Configuring clients for RADIUS. How RADIUS works RADIUS architecture, RADIUS and authentication, PPP, PAP, CHAP, RADIUS SUCCESS, RADIUS FAILURE, the RADIUS protocol stack, the RADIUS protocol, the RADIUS header, RADIUS codes, RADIUS attributes, ACCESS-REQUEST example, ACCESS-ACCECPT example, CHAP example, proprietary attributes, using unassigned type codes, RADIUS attribute 26, Cisco specific attributes. Hands on Analysing RADIUS packets, configuring PPP CHAP to work with RADIUS. RADIUS accounting Simplified operation, Accounting codes, Accounting attributes, client and server configuration for accounting. Hands on Configuring RADIUS accounting. RADIUS architectures Traditional architecture, multiple RADIUS servers for resilience, Proxy RADIUS servers, Realms, RADIUS in VPNs, RADIUS with 802.1x. Hands on Using multiple RADIUS servers, Proxies. Troubleshooting RADIUS General problem solving, basic tools, RADIUS troubleshooting, Common configuration errors, log files, RADIUS design and performance. Hands on Fixing RADIUS problems.

Hardening Cisco devices training course description A hands on course focusing on how to lock down Cisco IOS routers and switches. What will you learn Harden Cisco devices. Hardening Cisco devices training course details Who will benefit: Technical network staff. Technical security staff. Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers. Duration 5 days Hardening Cisco devices training course content Introduction Router security, Switch security, Cisco IOS, IOS versions, Cisco advisories, the management plane, control plane, data plane. Hands on Checking IOS versions and advisories. Access control Infrastructure ACLs, Transit ACLs. Hands on Restricting access to the device, Filtering data traffic. Management plane: Securing operations Passwords, privilege levels, AAA, TACACS+, RADIUS. Hands on Password management. Management plane: Other general hardening Logging best practices, secure protocols, encrypting management sessions, configuration management. Hands on Hardening the management plane. Control plane Disabling reception and transmission of certain messages, Limiting CPU impact of control plane traffic, securing routing protocols. Hands on Hardening the control plane. Data plane Transit ACLs, disabling unused services, disabling unnecessary protocols, anti spoofing, limiting CPU impact of data plane traffic, identifying and tracing traffic, Netflow, VLANs, port security. Hands on hardening the data plane.

SNMPc 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. SNMPc training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Solarwinds. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days SNMPc training course content Getting started with SNMPc Manual discovery, automatic discovery, controlling IP discovery, mapping network devices. Hands on Using SNMPc. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. MIBs. Hands on Device discovery. Adding devices. Customising maps. Using SNMPc Polling, obtaining MIB information, MIB walking. Compiling MIBs. Hands on Monitoring devices. Groups. MIB walking. SNMP traps. Alarms Events and alarms, thresholds, event actions. Hands on Automatic alarms. Reports Creating reports, trend reports, customising reports. Hands on Performance reports. Graphs. Administration Users, customised views, backups, the database. Hands on Adding a user. Backups.

WhatsUp Gold training course description A hands on course focusing on network management using WhatsUp Gold. What will you learn Discover devices using WhatsUp Gold. Use WhatsUp Gold. Poll and monitor devices using WhatsUp Gold. Create Alarms, alerts and reports. Diagnose faults using WhatsUp Gold. Administrate a WhatsUp Gold system. WhatsUp Gold training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with WhatsUp Gold. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days WhatsUp Gold for engineers Getting started with WhatsUp Gold Starting WhatsUp Gold, manual discovery, automatic discovery, controlling IP discovery, mapping network devices. Hands on Using WhatsUp Gold. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. MIBs. Hands on Device discovery. Adding devices. Customising maps. Using WhatsUp Gold Polling, obtaining MIB information, MIB walking, Active monitors, critical monitors, passive monitors. Hands on Monitoring devices. Groups. MIB walking. SNMP trap monitor. Syslog monitor. Alarms Actions, Alert centre, thresholds, actions on events. Hands on Using the alert centre. Web tools. Reports Creating reports, automatic reports, customising reports. Hands on Performance reports. Graphs. Administration Users, backups, the database. Hands on Adding a user. Backups.

Session Border Controllers course description A hands on course covering Session Border Controllers with a focus on the technical workings of features commonly found in Session Border Controllers. Hands on practicals follow each major theory session. What will you learn Explain how Session Border Controllers work. Explain the SIP call flow using a SBC. Deploy Session Border Controllers Describe the features found in Session Border Controllers. Session Border Controllers course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with SIP. Prerequisites: Definitive SIP for engineers Duration 2 days Session Border Controllers course contents SIP review Signalling, media, RTP, SIP, peer to peer, SIP proxies, SIP call flows. Hands on: SIP packet analysis. Session Border Controllers What is a SBC? SBC features, peering scenario, access scenario, NNI SBC, UNI SBC, enterprise SBC. Hands on: SBC call flows SBC topology hiding Header privacy, B2BUA. Hands on: Header analysis. Session control Call admissions, QoS, statistics and billing, redundancy and scalability. Hands on: SBC session control SBC and NAT NAT traversal, STUN, ICE, NAT and SIP, NAT and RTP. Hands on: SBC and NAT traversal. SBC and security DoS, access control, encryption, authentication, toll fraud, regulatory issues, lawful intercept. Hands on: Security. Interoperability mediation Manipulating SIP headers, IMS, IETF, TISPAN, SIP-I. SBC interworking.