= 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 advanced use of pfSense® as an 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]