| 1 |   | Call of Institutional Nominations Opening: 8th Nov 2018 | 
          
          
            | 2 |   | Call of Institutional Nominations Closing: 30th Nov 2018 | 
          
          
            | 3 |   | Selection announced: 03rd Dec 2018 | 
          
          
            | 4 |   | Online Registration Opening: 03rd Dec 2018 | 
          
          
            | 5 |   | Online Registration Closing:  11th Dec 2018 (1600 IST) | 
          
          
            |   | 1 | = Annual NOC Meeting 2018 = | 
          
          
            |   | 2 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 3 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 4 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 5 | '''Venue:''' Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya [[br]] | 
          
          
            |   | 6 | '''Duration:''' 3 days [[br]] | 
          
          
            |   | 7 | '''Class size:''' 60 [[br]] | 
          
          
            |   | 8 | '''Target group:''' network administrators/engineers from LEARN member institutions (one who deals with the campus network) [[br]] | 
          
          
            |   | 9 | '''Program Level:''' !Intermediate/Advance [[br]] | 
          
          
            |   | 10 | '''Course fee:''' free of charge (two nights accommodation sharing basis, refreshment, lunch, dinner and break-first will be provided) [[br]] | 
          
          
            |   | 11 | '''Date:''' 27^th^ to 29^th^ November 2017 [[br]] | 
          
          
            |   | 12 | '''Note:'''  Participants are requested to bring a laptop (4GB RAM, 25GB free disk space) with !VirtualBox or any other suitable hypervisor installed [[br]] | 
          
          
            |   | 13 | '''Application closing:'''   13th Nov 2017  [[br]] | 
          
          
            |   | 14 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 15 | == Meeting Goals== | 
          
          
            |   | 16 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 17 | Annual NOC meeting 2018 is to review the progress you have made on deployment of Eduroam, IPv6, proper Identity stores in your campus. This meeting will include progress review, a hands-on workshop on advance use of pfSense as institutional firewall and visualization of inbound/outbound traffic and explanation of the procedure to register your identity provider with the LEARN identity federation. | 
          
          
            |   | 18 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 19 | The whole program targets the most senior network/systems engineers from LEARN member institutions | 
          
          
            |   | 20 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 21 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 22 | == Contents == | 
          
          
            |   | 23 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 24 | * Day 01: NOC Meeting | 
          
          
            |   | 25 |      - Progress review of deployment of Eduroam, IPv6 and proper identity stores - 10 minutes presentation from each Institutions | 
          
          
            |   | 26 | * Day 02 - Day 03 | 
          
          
            |   | 27 |      - Advance use of pfSense for fire-walling, visualization of inbound/outbound traffic and setting up a captive portal | 
          
          
            |   | 28 |      - Procedure to register institutional identity provider with the LEARN identity federation | 
          
          
            |   | 29 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 30 | == Workshop== | 
          
          
            |   | 31 |  | 
          
          
            |   | 32 |  * [wiki:noc2018/agenda Workshop Agenda] | 
          
          
            |   | 33 |  * Instructors:  | 
          
          
            |   | 34 |        - [wiki:Senevih Senevi Herath], !Network/System Manager, LEARN | 
          
          
            |   | 35 |        - [wiki:ThilinaP Thilina Pathirana], !Network/Systems Engineer, LEARN | 
          
          
            |   | 36 |        - Dhammika Lalantha | 
          
          
            |   | 37 |  * Organizing Team: | 
          
          
            |   | 38 |        - Rajeewa Abeygunarathna, Operations Manager, LEARN | 
          
          
            |   | 39 |        - Dinesh Gunawardana, LEARN | 
          
          
            |   | 40 |        - Viraji Kaushalya, LEARN | 
          
          
            |   | 41 |  * Participants: | 
          
          
            |   | 42 |        - [https://indico.learn.ac.lk/e/noc2018 List of Participants] | 
          
          
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