Research Seminar - September 17, 2004

Network Management and Automation

Time: 11am Friday September 17

Computer Science & Software Engineering

Seminar Room 1.24

Speaker:
Alex Dawson

 

Abstract:

Local Area Network (LAN) management need not be a troublesome task. During early 2004, The University of WA's School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering implemented a major network upgrade, replacing a mixture of network hardware, some up to 10 years old, with new Cisco switches and routers. This seminar will cover the new technologies this has allowed them to use, open source and homebrew software used for management, and how these have all helped in the streamlining of day to day network infrastructure and knowledge management.

Alex Dawson is a Systems and Network Administrator from UWA's School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, where he has been employed since 2001. Prior to this, he worked from his home in Perth on a contract basis for a web development company in Mississippi, USA, doing Perl, PHP and SQL development. He holds a BSc from Edith Cowan in Security Management, with a minor in Computer Science completed at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada

Keywords. Network hardware, Network upgrade, infrastructure, knowledge management