Course : System and Network monitoring tools and techniques

System and Network monitoring tools and techniques

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This course will teach you how to perform daily tasks of monitoring and to administrate systems and networks. The work environment will be Windows and Linux with TCP/IP routers and you will use the basic system commands and open source tools.


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This course will teach you how to perform daily tasks of monitoring and to administrate systems and networks. The work environment will be Windows and Linux with TCP/IP routers and you will use the basic system commands and open source tools.

Intended audience
Network and system administrators.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of networking technologies and IPv4. Notion of network security.

Course schedule

Network and system administration principles

  • What to monitor : Processes, system resources usage, file systems, users.
  • Network traffic and Network equipments.
  • Monitoring tools.
  • Basic system commands, scripts. Log files.
  • Network observers and network scanner.
  • File system audit tools. SNMP tools. Global monitoring tools.
Hands-on work
Define a strategy for the administration.

Deploying a TCP/IP Network

  • TCP/IP architecture. Services and protocols.
  • Addressing and routing. Address classes and network masks.
  • Configuring routers. Routing protocols.
  • Configuring servers and services.
  • Setting up FTP, HTTP, and DNS services.
  • Network and application services monitoring.
  • Open Source Software. Smokeping. Munin.
Hands-on work
Network setup. Routers and switches. Configuring Windows and Linux systems. Using network testing basic tools. Smokeping. Configuration. Munin configuration.

Network Observers

  • Using network sniffer applications.
  • Adresses and protocols observation.
  • From Tcpdump to Wireshark.
  • How they work. Other tools.
Hands-on work
Using Etherape on Linux. Using Wireshark to analyze network traffic. Creating Capture and/or Display filters with Wireshark.

System protection

  • Monitoring network services .
  • The netstat command.
  • Network scanners. Nmap. Nessus.
  • Monitoring files and directories.
  • Application software. Checking file and directory integrity.
  • Intrusion detection tools. AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environnement).
Hands-on work
Using Nmap on Windows. Using AIDE on Linux.

Simple Network Management Protocol

  • SNMP operation and messages : get, get-next, set, response. Agents.
  • Management Information Bases.
  • Scalar vs. tabular data.
  • SNMP tools. Net-SNMP Software. MIB Browsers.
Hands-on work
Configuring SNMP agents on WIndows, Linux, and Cisco routers ans switches. Using Net-SNMP commands. Using a MIB Browser.

Multiple Router Traffic Grapher

  • MRTG Principles
  • Creating traffic graphs. Publishing graphs on a Web Server.
  • RRDtool. Data storage.
  • Graph creation. Exemple of CACTI.
Hands-on work
Configuring MRTG and CACTI on Linux.

Supervision tools

  • Nagios origin. Monitored systems and services. Plugins.
  • Configuration files. Test scheduling.
  • CENTREON. Advanced interface. Graphical configuration.
  • Big Brother. Monitoring principles.
Hands-on work
Configuring and using Nagios on Linux and Big Brother on Windows.


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