UniForum Announces Professional Training Series
Covers Internet, security, the WWW, system management
UniForum has announced its new Professional Career Training Series,
the first in a group of educational seminars on IT topics to
be held in various cities. The series will begin in June, but
specific dates and locations have not been announced.
Six topics have been selected for the first series:
- "Understanding the Internet and Selecting Internet Providers"
- "Security on the Internet and the World-Wide Web"
- "Designing and Building Your Company's World-Wide Web Server"
- "Enterprise Systems Administration/Management"
- "Enterprise Network Administration/ Management"
- "Performance Management and Tuning, Parts I and II"
At intervals of several months, the same six seminars will be
held in a number of cities, extending into 1996. Each seminar
lasts from one to three days and attendees may sign up for between
one and five days at a cost of from $349 for one day to $1,399
for five days. UniForum members receive a $75 one-time discount.
The enrollment fee includes a copy of the comprehensive course
materials, a certificate of advanced achievement, and a one-year
general membership in UniForum, a $125 value. Group discounts
are available.
The courses are designed for IT professionals who need to bolster
their knowledge in one or a few selected areas. Seasoned instructors
are being chosen based on their knowledge, experience, and leadership
in the IT community.
The Professional Career Training Series is a continuation of
UniForum's mission to deliver high-quality educational programs
to the IT community, including UniForum members.
Course content will be as follows:
- "Understanding the Internet and Internet Providers" is a
comprehensive two-day seminar providing solid information about
the Internet. Attendees will identify the design and structure
of the Internet; learn what type of users are using the Internet;
discover required hardware and software to access the Internet;
consider pitfalls and dangers in using the Internet; see live
Internet access to various resources; and evaluate Internet access
providers.
- "Security on the Internet and the World-Wide Web" is a one-day
seminar for those with a basic knowledge of the Internet and
the Web. The course will cover topics such as host, perimeter,
and network security; security needed in applications; a distributed
hypermedia system; explosive growth and frantic level of interest;
secure HTTP; spontaneous commercial transactions; negotiation
of algorithm, modes, and parameters; interoperability; primordial
WWW security mechanisms; and application independence.
- "Designing and Building Your Company's World-Wide Web Server"
is a two-day seminar for computer professionals with an interest
in the Web. First-day seminar attendees will begin to understand
the Web from a "big picture" point of view; learn about the numerous
issues to consider in publishing on the Web; work through specific
examples of home pages; use most Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
tags; learn about converters and editors and see examples of
their use; and use forms and other advanced features of HTML.
The second day will include HTML authoring; HTML converters and
editors; use of forms in documents; use of URLs; security issues
such as access control, encryption, and user authentication;
firewalls and proxies; legacy data; and other topics.
- "Enterprise Systems Administration/ Management" is a two-day
seminar. Day one will cover TCP/IP network administration, including
a review of the TCP/IP protocol implementation and management
on various open systems platforms such as SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX,
AIX, SCO, and UnixWare. Host name and Internet address mappings,
subnetting, and nameserver address resolution will be covered.
Two popular routing daemons-routed and gated-will be covered.
Management of common network applications such as telnet, ftp,
rlogin, rsh, and rdist will be covered. Network File System and
the Domain Name Service will be covered. Day two will include
SLIP and PPP connections; Sendmail configuration file; Sendmail
rule sets and rewriting rules; Kerberos security administration;
public key/private key administration; and other topics.
- "Enterprise Network Administration/ Management" is a three-day
seminar. Day one, SNMP and LAN management, includes today's client/server
management tools; the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP);
managing the desktop; the Distributed Management Environment;
the role of object technology in network management; common management
information protocol; and extending the reach of SNMP. Day two
includes standard platforms and applications. Day three includes
systems management in the distributed environment.
- "Performance Management and Tuning is a two-day seminar
including an introductory level on day one and an intermediate
level on day two. The introductory level includes topics such
as performance fundamentals; analysis, metrics, and resources;
UNIX System V, BDS, and third-party tools; performance evaluation/benchmarking
methodology; and industrywide standards activities. The intermediate
level includes tools for performance data gathering and analysis;
case studies of MIS solutions; interfaces and their potential
impact on performance measurement and analysis; and current and
future trends.
Dates, places, and instructors will be announced as the information
is available, in both UniForum publications and on the UniFourm
World-Wide Web server, URL http://www.uniforum.org.