162 Architecture courses in Sheffield

DEFINITIVE NAGIOS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION Nagios is an open source application designed to provide system and network monitoring. This hands on course gives a comprehensive coverage of using Nagios to provide monitoring of Linux, Windows and network devices. The course is based on Nagios core but contact us if you would like Nagios XI. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Install Nagios. * Configure Nagios. * Monitor Windows, Linux and Cisco (and other network equipment) using Nagios. * Configure notifications DEFINITIVE NAGIOS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Nagios. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days DEFINITIVE NAGIOS FOR ENGINEERS * Nagios architecture Downloading Nagios, Installing Nagios, Nagios core, plugins, frontends, addons. Nagios XI. Nagios Fusion. Hands on Installing Nagios. * Getting started with Nagios Nagios files, nagios.cfg, minimal.cfg. Starting and stopping Nagios. Hands on Controlling Nagios. * Using Nagios Nagios web interface. Maps, Hosts, host groups, services, service groups, problems. Reports. Configuration. Hands on Using the web interface. * Monitoring Linux systems SSH, NRPE. Hands on Monitoring Linux system health. * Monitoring Windows systems Installing NSClient++, Configuring NSClient++, check_nt plugin, monitoring uptime, CPU, memory, disks, services, processes. Hands on Monitoring Windows system health. * Monitoring network devices SNMP architecture, MIBs. Polling. Hands on Configuring Nagios for SNMP. * Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. Hands on Monitoring network devices. * Nagios alerts and notifications SNMP traps. Email notifications, SMS alerts other messaging

SNMP TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands-on generic look at the technical operation of SNMP. The course starts with an overview of all the components, which make up SNMP. Hands on starts early with configuration of a managed network. The major versions of SNMP are then put into perspective followed by a look at the SNMP protocol. MIBs are then studied both from the perspective of reading MIBs and writing MIBs. The course finishes with a look at the security implications of SNMP. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the SNMP architecture. * Analyse SNMP packets. * Recognise the MIB structure. * Describe the SMI. * Recognise the strengths and weaknesses of SNMPv2 and SNMPv3. SNMP TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Network administrators. Network operators. Programmers writing MIBs and agents. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation for engineers Hands on experience of an SNMP management station would also be beneficial. * Duration 3 days SNMP TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Network management What is network management? Benefits, issues. * What is SNMP? SNMP architecture, SNMP MIBs, SMI, the SNMP protocol, polling security, alternatives to SNMP: CMIP, web based management. * Configuring SNMP Auto discovery for management stations, NMS configuration, agent configuration, traps. Hands on Configuring agents and an NMS. * SNMP background SNMP history, RFCs, standards, SNMP protocol versions, SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, SNMP SMI versions, which version should you use? Futures. * SNMPv1 packets SNMP in the 7 layer model, port numbers, general packet format, BER, GET, GET-NEXT, tables, SET, TRAP, bandwidth issues, in band versus out of band management. Hands on Analysing SNMPv1 packets. * SNMPv2 packets SNMPv2 improvements, error handling, GETBULK, v2traps, INFORM. Hands on Analysing SNMPv2 packets. * SNMPv3 packets SNMPv3 packet format, use of SNMPv2 messages, REPORT PDU. * MIB structure The internet MIB branch, standard mib-2, extra parts of mib-2, private enterprise MIBs, loading extra MIBs. Hands on MIB browsing. * mib-2 The mib-2 groups, system group, interfaces group, IP group, ICMP group, TCP group, UDP group, transmission group, SNMP group, RMON. Hands on mib-2 browsing in detail. * SMI The MIB layout, obtaining a private enterprise number, MIB definitions, IMPORT, Module identity, Textual conventions, object definitions, notifications, compliance statements, object groups, base SMI data types, application data types, scalars, instances, tables, table definition, writing agents, SMIng. * SNMP security Community strings, SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c security practices, SNMPv3 security, SNMPv3 architecture, SNMP applications, the SNMP engine, the EngineID, security fields in SNMPv3 packets, USM, authentication, encryption, timeliness, VBAC, SNMPv3 configuration.

LTE AIRSIDE TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides a concise insight into the LTE airside. Key parts of the course are detailed looks at the air interface protocol stack, cell acquisition, transmission and reception of data and of he layer 1 procedures along with layer 2 procedures. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain the RF optimisation flowchart. * Describe the importance of Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP). * List many of the 3GPP recommended KPIs. * Describe the concept of APN AMBR and UE AMBR within LTE. * Describe the use of planning and optimisation computer tools. LTE AIRSIDE TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with LTE. * Prerequisites: Essential LTE * Duration 2 days LTE AIRSIDE TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction and review of LTE This section describes the requirements of LTE and key technical features, and reviews the system architecture. LTE Architecture, UE, E-UTRAN and EPC. Specifications. * OFDMA, SC-FDMA and MIMO antennas This section describes the techniques used in the LTE air interface, notably orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas. Communication techniques for fading multipath channels. OFDMA, FFT processing and cyclic prefix insertion. SC-FDMA in the LTE uplink. Multiple antenna techniques including transmit & receive diversity and spatial multiplexing. * Introduction to the air interface This section covers the operation of the air interface, the channels that it uses, and the mapping to the time and frequency domains of OFDMA and SC-FDMA. Air interface protocol stack. Logical, transport and physical channels. Frame and slot structure, the resource grid. Resource element mapping of the physical channels and physical signals. LTE spectrum allocation. * Cell acquisition This is the first of three sections covering the air interface physical layer. Here, we cover mobile procedures to start low-level communications with the cell, and base station transmission of the corresponding information. Primary/secondary synchronisation signals. Downlink reference signals. The master information block. Physical control format indicator channel. Organisation and transmission of the system information. * Data transmission and reception In this section, we cover procedures used for data transmission and reception on the shared channels, and describe in detail the individual steps. Data transmission and reception on the uplink and downlink. Scheduling commands and grants on the PDCCH. DL-SCH and UL-SCH. Physical channel processing of the PDSCH and PUSCH. Hybrid ARQ indicators on the PHICH. Uplink control information on the PUCCH. Uplink demodulation and sounding reference signals. * Additional physical layer procedure This section concludes our discussion of the air interface physical layer, by discussing a number of procedures that support its operation. Transmission of the physical random access channel. Contention and non-contention based random access procedures. Discontinuous transmission in idle and connected modes. Uplink power control and timing advance. * Air interface layer 2 This section describes the architecture and operation of layer 2 of the air interface protocol stack. MAC protocol, interactions with the physical layer, use for scheduling. RLC protocol, transparent, unacknowledged and acknowledged modes. PDCP, including header compression, security functions and recovery from handover.

ANSIBLE FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION An introduction to automation using ansible. Ansible is a general purpose IT automation platform that can be use for a number of purposes. The course covers configuration management, cloud provisioning and application deployment with ansible. Hands on sessions follow all major sections. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Install ansible. * Automate tasks with ansible. * Write ansible playbooks. ANSIBLE FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Administrators and developers automating tasks. * Prerequisites: Linux administration skills * Duration 3 days ANSIBLE FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is ansible? The language, the engine, the framework. Uses of ansible, orchestration. Hands on Installing ansible. * Ansible architecture ible architecture Controlling machines, nodes, Agentless, SSH, modules, JSON protocol. Configuration management, inventories, playbooks, modules, roles. Hands on Getting started, running ad hoc commands. * Ansible and Vagrant Prototyping and testing. Hands on Using ansible with Vagrant. * Ad hoc commands Parallelism, shell commands, managing files and directories, file transfer, package management, manage user and groups, deploying applications, service management, background jobs, checking log files, managing cron jobs. Hands on Using ansible with Vagrant. * Playbooks ansible-playbook, users, sudo, YAML, plays, tasks, handlers, modules. Hands on Running playbooks. * More playbooks Handlers, variables, environmental variables, playbook variables, inventory variables, variable scope and precedence, accessing variables, facts, ansible vault. Conditionals, wait_for. Hands on Using variables and conditions in playbooks. * Roles and includes Dynamic includes, Handler includes, playbook includes. Roles, role parts: handlers, files, templates, cross platform roles, ansible galaxy. Hands on includes example, building roles. * Inventories /etc/ansible/hosts, inventory variables, static inventories, dynamic inventories. Hands on Inventories and variables. * Miscellanea Individual server cookbooks, Main playbook for configuring all servers. Hands onPlaybooks.

LTE TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to give the delegate an understanding of the technologies used within a 3G UMTS mobile network. During the course we will investigate the UMTS air interface and the use of Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) to facilitate high speed data access, together with HSPA to offer mobile broadband services. We will describe the use of soft handover rather than hard handover procedures and soft capacity sharing. The course includes a brief exploration of the UMTS protocol stack and the use of PDP Context and QoS support features. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain the 3G UMTS architecture. * Describe the role of a Drifting & Serving RNC. * Explain the use of ARQ & HARQ for mobile broadband. * Describe how IMS integrates into the architecture. * Describe the use of Media Gateway Controllers. * Identify the temporary identities used within 3G UMTS. LTE TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working within the telecommunications area, especially within the mobile environment. * Prerequisites: Mobile communications demystified Telecommunications Introduction * Duration 2 days LTE TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * LTE Introduction The path to LTE, 3GPP. LTE to LTE advanced. * LTE Architecture The core, Access, roaming. Protocols: User plane, Control plane. Example information flows. Bearer management. Spectrum allocation. * LTE technologies Transmission, reception, OFDMA, multiple antenna, MIMO. * LTE Air interface Air interface protocol stack. Channels, Resource Grid, cell acquisition. Up and downlink controls. Layer 2 protocols. * Cell acquisition Power on, selecting networks and cells. RRC connection. Attach procedure. * Mobility management Roaming, RRC_IDLE, RRC_CONNECTED, cell reselection, handover, interoperation with UMTS and GSM networks. * Voice and text IMS, QoS, policy and charging.

MOBILE IP TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A detailed examination of the protocols and architecture of Mobile IP. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Recognise the benefits of ADSL. * Configure and troubleshoot IS-IS. * Explain how IS-IS works. * Describe the use of Level 1 and Level 2. * Design IS-IS networks. MOBILE IP COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff wanting to learn DNS.Network Administrators. Support personnel. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation * Duration 2 days MOBILE IP COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction Quick review of IP, What is Mobile IP? What Mobile IP provides, Mobility requirements, Where Mobile IP is required, where mobile IP is not required, DHCP as an alternative, Proxy ARP as an alternative. * Architecture Mobile node, home network, home agent, Foreign agent, Fixed home address, Care of address, Correspondent node, Tunnelling. * How Mobile IP works Using two addresses, issues with TCP, discovering the care of address, registering care of address, tunnelling the care of address. The protocols involved. * Issues with Mobile IP Routing inefficiencies, Security and firewalls, ingress filtering, QoS. * MIP and IPv6 Stateless address configuration, Neighbour discovery, miscellaneous.

GSM TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION GSM is in widespread use today. This seminar gives an comprehensive overview of GSM. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain what GSM is. * Describe the architecture of the GSM network. * Describe the GSM protocol stack. GSM TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone who needs to know more about GSM. * Prerequisites: Telecommunications Introduction * Duration 2 days GSM TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction History of GSM, analogue networks, digital networks, PCS1900. * GSM services Telephony, digital encoding, data rates, Group 3 fax, SMS, Supplementary services. * GSM architecture Mobile station Mobile Equipment (ME), Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). * Base Station Subsystem Base Transceiver Station (BTS), Base Station Controller (BSC). * Network Subsystem Mobile Services Switching Centre (MSC), Home Location Register (HLR), Visitor Location Register (VLR), Equipment Identity Register (EIR), Visitor Location register (VLR), Authentication Centre (AuC) * Radio Link Aspects Bands, FDMA, TDMA, Traffic channels, Control channels, Speech coding, Channel coding and modulation, Multipath equalisation, Frequency hopping. * GSM signalling SS7 overview, GSM SS7 nodes, Base Station Subsystem Application Part (BSSAP), Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP), Mobile Application Part (MAP). * Interfaces Um, Abis and A interfaces. * Mobility and call processing in GSM Attach & location update process, mobile originate, mobile termination, handovers. * GSM services Tele services, Bearer services, supplementary services, SMS, security. * GSM futures GPRS, UMTS.

RFID TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This training course focuses on the technologies used in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the RFID architecture. * Design RFID systems. * Evaluate tag types. * Recognise common RFID problems. RFID TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: RFID technologists and system engineers. * Prerequisites: RF fundamentals. * Duration 2 days RFID TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is RFID? Review of RF basics, what is RFID, RFID history, RFID base system architecture, frequency bands used by RFID, comparison with barcodes. * RFID applications Supply chain, asset tracking, theft reduction, retail, access control, tolls. * Tags Tag features, types of tag, passive and active, chips, read only, read write, affixing tags, selecting location to affix a tag, tag orientation and location, tag stacking, impact of rate of movement, tag data formats. * Interrogators/readers Interrogation zones, interrogator types, antennas, read distance tests, multiple interrogators, synchronisation, dense interrogator environment issues. RFID peripherals. * Standards and regulations Global regulatory requirements, regional regulatory requirements, ISO, ETSI, FCC, EPC, safety regulations/issues. * Testing and troubleshooting Read rate problems, improperly tagged items, tag failure. * RFID system design Antenna types, interference, antenna location and spacing, how many antennas? How many interrogators? tag types, grounding considerations, cabling, site diagrams.

NNMI FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on course focusing on network management using Network Node Manager (NNMi) on Microsoft Windows or UNIX. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the network management architecture. * Use NNMi. * Diagnose faults using NNMi. * Recognise the MIB structure. NNMI FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Network administrators. Network operators. Those wishing to find out more about how their NNMi works. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers * Duration 2 day NNMI FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE CONTENT * Network management What is network management? Benefits, issues, demonstration. * Getting started with NNMi Starting NNMi, IP discovery, IP monitoring, controlling IP discovery. * Using NNMi Mapping devices, map layouts, maps and submaps, objects and symbols, object attributes, colour codings, polling. * Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. * Parts of SNMP SNMP architecture, MIBs, The protocol. NNMi SNMP configuration * NNMi alarm browser NNMi alarms, alarm categories, filtering alarms, alarm details window. * MIBs MIB1, MIB2, The MIB2 groups, additional MIBs, MIB compilers, vendor MIBs. NNMi MIB loader and browser. * Monitoring devices Polling, obtaining MIB information. * Diagnostic tools Poll node, the ping window, protocol test, locate route * NNMi fault management Alarms, polling, fault management, setting thresholds and configuring traps.

OPENVIEW TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands-on course focusing on network management using HP OpenView network node manager on Microsoft Windows or UNIX. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Recognise the benefits of ADSL. * Describe the network management architecture. * Use HP OpenView. * Diagnose faults using HP OpenView. * Recognise the MIB structure. OPENVIEW TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff wanting to learn DNS. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation * Duration 2 days OPENVIEW TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Network management What is network management?, Benefits, issues, demonstration. * Getting started with HP OpenView Starting HP OpenView, IP discovery, IP monitoring, controlling IP discovery. * Using HP OpenView Mapping devices, map layouts, maps and submaps, objects and symbols, object attributes, colour codings, polling. * Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. * Parts of SNMP SNMP architecture, MIB's, The protocol. HP OpenView SNMP configuration * HP OpenView alarm browser HP OpenView alarms, alarm categories, filtering alarms, alarm details window. * MIB's MIB1, MIB2, The MIB2 groups, additional MIB's, MIB compilers, vendor MIB's. HP OpenView MIB loader and browser. * Monitoring devices Polling, obtaining MIB information. * Diagnostic tools Poll node, the ping window, protocol test, locate route * HP OpenView fault management Alarms, polling, fault management, setting thresholds and configuring traps.