2010 Speaker List
Hear from IT leaders and industry experts in more than 100 sessions at the leading business technology event.
Mike Pennacchi
Owner, Network Protocol Specialists
Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks.
Sessions
Network Troubleshooting Using Open Source Tools
Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 18, 2010, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM
Network utilization and error monitoring, throughput measurement, and device monitoring - these can all be done using free Open Source tools available today on the Internet! This workshop focuses on a handful of tools that can be used for troubleshooting a wide variety of network and application problems.
The instructor will take attendees through each one of these tools, showing how they can be easily installed and configured.
Course Outline
• Open Source Troubleshooting Tools, Best of the Best
• Iperf for throughput monitoring
• Cacti for monitoring network utilization
• nTop for monitoring conversations
• SmokePing for monitoring response time and packet loss
• OpenNMS for monitoring device availability
You Will Learn
Attendees will learn how to measure network throughput and monitor network utilization all using Open Source tools.
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for network administrators, designers and analysts that are responsible for determining why network and applications are not running as fast as they should.
Using the Wireshark Protocol Analyzer to Troubleshoot Problems
Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM
Wireshark® has become one of the most popular protocol analyzers available to network administrators today. While it provides an easy means to capture packets, it is not always easy to interpret the contents of those packets. In this workshop we will take a detailed look at how to reliably capture and analyze network traffic. We will use trace file examples to demonstrate a number of common network protocols. Examples will be given of how the network traffic should look when it is working properly and what it looks like when it is not working properly.
As part of this course the attendees will be taken step by step through the process of building a capture to disk appliance using freely available software.
Course Outline
• Packet capture techniques
• Creating capture filters
• Creating display filters
• TCP traffic analysis
• Using the Expert Information to quickly isolate problems
• Reassembly of Voice over IP traffic
• Use of graphs to visually analyze traffic flows
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for network administrators, designers, and analysts that are responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting network traffic.
You Will Learn
Students will be prepared to reliably capture and analyze network traffic.
