[rescue] unix network management tools

[Neal Dalton]

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Neal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Sikorski" <me at dansikorski.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 10:45 AM
Subject: [rescue] unix network management tools


> I am going to be helping design a laboratory exercise for my "Enterprise
> Network Management" class here at Purdue University.  The focus of this
> lab is going to be UNIX network analysis and management tools.
> (Previously, this lab only used windows network analysis/management
> tools, and this is the first semester that there's going to be a UNIX
> lab, so i'm happy to help out)  The lecture of the class is based on the
> o'reilly book "Network Troubleshooting Tools" (Basilisk) by Joseph D.
> Sloan, and the professor wants to integrate the tools in the book into a
> lab exercise.
>
> My question to list members is this:  What UNIX network management tools
> do you use in the field, and what tools would you expect/want a new
> recruit to have basic knowledge of?
>
> Each lab group has at their disposal 3 compaq/intel PC's, so the OS's
> will be solaris/x86, linux, or *BSD (any combination thereof, this can
> be dictated, or left up to the lab groups to decide).  I may also bring
> in some of my own sun/sgi hardware to demo, but i don't have quite
> enough to give each lab group a machine to borrow. (but i am close :) )
> Most of the students have a small amount of experience with solaris/x86,
> as it was used in lab exercises of another class, but keep in mind that
> the focus of this lab is not to learn other OS's but to use UNIX network
> analysis/management tools, an OS should be chosen because it's the
> best/easiest to accomplish this within a limited time frame by UNIX
> novices.
>
> Things that i am currently considering:  tcpdump, etheral, a SNMP MIB
> browser, ntop, nmap, as well as a run over of the basics (ping,
> traceroute, etc.)
>
> All suggestions, thoughts, and comments are welcome, either on, or
> off-list.
>
> -Dan Sikorski
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