Network Monitoring & Performance Workshop

Africa/Accra
Omo Oaiya (WACREN), Antoine Delvaux (Metadata Consulting), Edward Banjo (WACREN)
Description

Onsite workshop to train attendees from NRENs connected to the WACREN backbone to deploy and use perfSONAR and other chosen network performance monitoring tools.  The hands-on sessions will ensure that attendees are able to deploy the tools on their respective networks as part of a regional mesh. 

WACREN NOC
    • 1
      Session 1.1
      • a) Introduction
      • b) Motivation
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • 2
      Session 1.2
      • a) Ansible refresher
      • b) Ansible setup

        Hands-on

    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • 3
      Session 1.3
      • a) Provisioning perfSONAR with Ansible
      • b) perfSONAR installation with Ansible

        Hands-on

    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • 4
      Session 1.4
      • a) perfSONAR basic configuration with Ansible

        Hands-on

    • 5
      Session 2.1
      • a) Review day 1
      • b) Network theory
      • c) Mesh measurements and MaDDash
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • 6
      Session 2.2
      • a) pSConfig (and PWA)
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • 7
      Session 2.3
      • a) Mesh config and MaDDash setup

        Hands-on

    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • 8
      Session 2.4
      • a) pSConfig and Ansible

        Hands-on

      • b) PWA usage

        Hands-on

    • 9
      Session 3.1
      • a) Review day 2
      • b) pScheduler
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • 10
      Session 3.2
      • a) pScheduler usage

        Hands-on

    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • 11
      Session 3.3
      • a) Use Cases
      • b) Troubleshooting
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • 12
      Session 3.4
      • a) General Review
      • b) Q&A and next steps