= Annual NOC Meeting 2018 = '''Venue:''' Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya [[br]] '''Duration:''' 3 days [[br]] '''Class size:''' 60 [[br]] '''Target group:''' Most senior network/systems engineers from LEARN member institutions (one who deals with the campus network) [[br]] '''Program Level:''' Advanced [[br]] '''Course fee:''' free of charge (two nights accommodation sharing basis, refreshment, lunch, dinner and break-first will be provided) [[br]] '''Date:''' 12^th^ to 14^th^ Dec 2018[[br]] '''Note:''' Participants are requested to bring a laptop (4GB RAM, 25GB free disk space) with !VirtualBox hypervisor installed [[br]] '''Prerequisite:''' [wiki:Linux2016agenda Linux Basics][[br]] == Important Dates == '''Call of Institutional Nominations Opening:''' 14^th^ Nov 2018 [[br]] '''Call of Institutional Nominations Closing:''' 30^th^ Nov 2018 [[br]] '''Selection announced: 03^rd^ Dec 2018''' [[br]] '''Online Registration Opening:''' 03^rd^ Dec 2018 [[br]] '''Online Registration Closing:''' 11^th^ Dec 2018 (1600 IST) [[br]] == Meeting Goals== 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. The whole program targets the most senior network/systems engineers from LEARN member institutions == Contents == * Day 01: NOC Meeting - Progress review of deployment of Eduroam, IPv6 and proper identity stores - 10 minutes presentation from each Institutions * Day 02 - Day 03 - Advance use of pfSense for fire-walling, visualization of inbound/outbound traffic and setting up a captive portal - Procedure to register institutional identity provider with the LEARN identity federation == Workshop== * [wiki:noc2018/agenda Agenda] * Instructors: - [wiki:Senevih Senevi Herath], !Network/System Manager, LEARN - [wiki:ThilinaP Thilina Pathirana], !Network/Systems Engineer, LEARN - Dhammika Lalantha * Organizing Team: - Rajeewa Abeygunarathna, Operations Manager, LEARN - Dinesh Gunawardana, LEARN - Viraji Kaushalya, LEARN * Participants: - [https://indico.learn.ac.lk/e/noc2018 List of Participants]