Biography
Oliver Gorwits is Head of Networks and Security at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, and previously managed backbone networks at the University of Oxford. He has a keen interest in using network management and monitoring as a way to help NOC staff become more effective and efficient. For several years he has contributed to open source network applications, especially Netdisco and the SNMP::Info Perl library
Abstract
Know your network - device and host discovery and management using SNMP
Managing networks effectively means having up-to-date information about devices and hosts, at your fingertips. SNMP is one way to get that data, being widely supported across hardware platforms. In this talk we'll give an introduction to SNMP and then use free-software tools to demonstrate its features. Tasks include: locating a system on your network by MAC or IP, showing the port it lives at; turning on and off switch ports or changing the VLAN; inventory hardware by model and OS; and drawing pretty pictures of your network
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