Sandbox%20Network%20Series

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Sandbox Network Series
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Network Series Agendas

• January 26 Campus Backbone Briefing
• February 23 Network Security Issues
• March 23 Tools
• April 27 ?

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Tools

• Management tools
• Diagnostic tools
• Network instrumentation

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Backbone Management Tools

• Fault
• Nagios
• TelAlert
• syslog
• net-snmp
• Configuration
• Rancid

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Backbone Management Tools

• Accounting / Performance / Security
• net-snmp
• RRDtool
• flow-tools
• Smokeping
• Packeteer

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Diagnostic Tools

• Connectivity
• Performance

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Connectivity Testing

• Ping
• Traceroute
• Traceroute servers
• Looking glasses / router proxies
• Sniffers

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Performance Testing

• dig / nslookup
• Network Diagnostic Tool
• iperf
• bwctl
• owamp

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Network Instrumentation

• (stuff from the previous slide)
• Netflow
• Smokeping
• AMP
• Multicast beacon

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Q A

• What backbone information and/or reporting would
  assist your troubleshooting?
• What tools are you using?
• Are you instrumenting your networks?
• Are you interested in a campus-wide
  instrumentation framework?

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Continuing the Discussion

• network-tools_at_lists.ucla.edu
• http//nctools.noc.ucla.edu(coming soon)

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Web sites of note

• http//e2epi.internet2.edu/
• http//dast.nlanr.net/NPMT/
• http//www.web100.org/