Campus network monitoring workshop
CESNET as a member of the GN3 (GÉANT) project together with other partners from the activity NA3/Task 4 Campus Best Practice organised a workshop focused on Campus Monitoring. Motto of the event is:
Monitoring as one of basic fundaments for increasing network stability, reliability and security
The two-day workshop took place at the Hotel Continental, Brno (the Czech Republic) on April 24–25, 2012. Participants discussed common practices in monitoring and shared the experiences with using different tools and processes. The workshop consisted of several sessions dedicated to: general aspects of campus/LAN monitoring, detection of problematic traffic, monitoring of IPv6, monitoring of multimedia traffic, and experience in real-world network monitoring.
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Programme and presentations
Tuesday April 24
Identification, flow monitoring & security
| Session 1 | |
| 9:00–9:15 | Welcome Tomáš Podermański—VUT Brno, Vidar Faltinsen—UNINETT |
| 9:15–9:45 | Anonymity in university campus
networks (PDF, 300 kB) Aleš Padrta—ZČU Plzeň |
| 9:45–10:15 | CESNET offers IP monitoring service
for universities (PDF, 3.4 MB) Tomáš Košňar—CESNET |
| 10:15–10:45 | nfdump/nfsen
(PDF, 3 MB) Peter Haag—SWITCH |
| 10:45–11:00 | coffee break |
| Session 2 | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Monitoring with flowmon
probes (PDF, 2 MB) INVEA-tech—Jiri Tobola |
| 11:30–12:00 | Flow Based Monitoring of
IPv6 (PDF, 42 MB) Tomáš Podermański, Matěj Grégr—CESNET/VUT Brno |
| 12:00–12:30 | Network security and
Behavior analysis (PDF, 10 MB) Pavel Čeleda—MU Brno |
| 12:30–13:00 | renetcol—RENATER netflow
collector (PDF, 250 kB) François-Xavier Andreu—RENATER |
| 13:00–14:00 | lunch |
| Session 3 | |
| 14:00–14:30 | Analysis of tunneled
traffic (PDF, 0.75 MB) Matěj Grégr—VUT Brno |
| 14:30–15:00 | Ironport proxy servers
(PDF, 1.2 MB) Ivan Ivanovic—RCUB/BUCC Beograd |
| 15:00–15:30 | Share and visualize your data
using the perfSONAR NC framework (PDF, 0.5 MB) Arne Øslebø—UNINETT |
| 15:30–16:00 | coffee break |
| Session 4 | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Automatic topology
detection and IPv6 machine tracking in campus networks
(PDF, 0.9 MB) Morten Brekkevold—UNINETT |
| 16:30–17:00 | Managing your network with Netmagis
(PDF, 0.5 MB) Jean Benoit—University of Strasbourg |
| 17:00–17:30 | Using Zabbix to monitor and manage lab
PCs (PDF, 0.7 MB) Lukas Macura—SLU Opava |
| Dinner | |
| 19:00–21:00 | Dinner in Brno beer restaurant |
Wednesday April 25
Monitoring tools & service monitoring
| Session 1 | |
| 9:00–9:30 | Experiences with IDS based on
honeypots (PDF, 8 MB) Radoslav Bodó, Michal Kostěnec—ZČU Plzeň/CESNET |
| 9:30–10:00 | Application detection using Appflow
and passive monitoring (PDF, 0.8 MB) Arne Øslebø—UNINETT |
| 10:00–10:30 | NfQuery: A Privacy Friendly Framework
for Multi-Domain Threat Analysis (PDF, 0.5 MB) Serdar Yiğit, Murat Soysal, Emre Yüce—ULAKBIM |
| 10:30–11:00 | coffee break |
| Session 2 | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Exploiting NetFlow:
Detection of sophisticated threats (PDF, 4.3 MB) Karel Šimek—CognitiveSecurity |
| 11:30–12:00 | Monitoring and analyzing
audio,video, and multimedia traffic on the network
(PDF, 1.6 MB) Slavko Gajin—RCUB/BUCC Beograd |
| 12:00–12:30 | Security Issues in IP
Telephony and their Solutions (PDF, 0.6 MB) Miroslav Vozňák—TU Ostrava |
| 12:30–13:00 | Quality measurements in
streaming media (PDF, 300 kB) Olav Kvittem—UNINETT |
| 13:00–14:00 | lunch |
| Session 3 | |
| 14:00–14:30 | Eduroam
Monitoring (PDF, 1 MB) Jovana Palibrk—AMRES |
| 14:30–15:00 | Simplify monitoring of a campus
network with Nagios: Our experiences (PDF, 5,6 MB) Pierre Wallemacq—BELNET |
| 15:00–15:30 | Nagios-Surfer—a quality
reporting tool for Nagios (PDF, 0.7 MB) Teemu Kiviniemi—FUNET |
| Session 4 | |
| 15:30–16:00 | What we have learned from the workshop Jiří Navrátil—CESNET |
| Social event | |
| 16:00 | Visiting Punkva caves + dinner |
Venue
The workshop takes place at the:
Hall 3
Hotel Continental
Kounicova 6
Brno
the Czech Republic
How to get there
- Direct coach from Vienna airport
The easiest way to reach Brno. The bus is operated by Student Agency, bus station is located in the front of the arrivals hall exit. It is recommended to order tickets before a trip.
Travel time: 2:20
Price: 16 Euro
Departure times: 8:00, 10:10, 13:00, 15:00, 17:10, 19:10 (see the timetable)- Direct train from Vienna-Simmering
More complicated than coach as extra time is needed to reach Vienna city center and train station (16 minutes train from airport, 10–15 minutes underground).
Travel time: 1:50, 2:15 including connection from the airport
Price: 24 Euro
Departure times: 8:48, 9:48, 12:48, 14:48, 16:47, 18:47 (see the timetable)- Airplane to Brno airport
The flights are operated from Eindhoven, Milan Bergamo, London Stansted, London Luton. More information can be found on the timetable.
- Public transport in Brno
See the Brno city transport company. The closest station is Moravské náměstí (tram No. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11).
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Accommodation tips
- Hotel Continental****
The workshop venue.
- Hotel Slovan***
In easy walking distance from the workshop venue.
- Best Western Premier Hotel International****
Reachable by walk too—expect 5–10 minutes of walk to reach the hotel Continental.
- Other
Hotels in Brno available on booking.com. We recommend to choose a hotel in the city centre to reach the venue easily.