The following application was submitted (UTC) on Thu, 10 Feb 11 14:38:51 +0000 Items with an '*' were required items in the application form. PERSONAL INFORMATION ==================== Family Name (Last name, Surname)*: Moses Full Name*: Bozra Moses Employer/Organization*: SimbaNET(T) Ltd. Position/Title*: System Admin Business Address ---------------- Pugu road ,Dar es salaam Business Phone: 255 22 2163800 Alternate Telephone: 255 755914790 Email*: bozra@simbanet.co.tz URL: www.simbanet.net FAX: Date of Birth: 1983-03-04 Country of Residence*: Tanzania Passport Name: Bozra Moses Passport Number: Passport Issuing Country: Passport Issue Date: Passport Expiry Date: WORKSHOP SPECIFIC INFORMATION ============================= Workshop Applied For*: SS-E: Scalable Internet Services Reason for Track Choice* ------------------------ DNS,mail and web servers planning and deployment. TECHNICAL SKILLS ================ Unix User?*: true How much have you used it? -------------------------- Installation,configuration and administration of Linux servers Have you been a UNIX admin?*: false Describe your experience (length of time, versions, etc.) --------------------------------------------------------- Have you used/administered TCP/IP nets?*: true Describe --------- Setting up LAN Router Configuration and troubleshooting Switch Configuration and troubleshooting Have you set up and/or administered any of the following? Please give details Bind or any other Nameservers* ------------------------------ BIND-Installation and configuration Mail Transport Agents (ex. Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, Qmail)* ----------------------------------------------------------- Sendmai,Postifix-Installation and day to dy adminitration Mailing List Managers (e.g. Majordomo or other list manager)* ------------------------------------------------------------- No Web Systems/Servers (e.g. Apache, IIS or other web server)* ------------------------------------------------------------ Apache-configuration and troubleshooting apache related problems Have you configured or otherwise managed any of the following? Please give details. Routers* -------- Cisco ,DLINK,lINKYSIS Routers-Configuration AND TROUBLESHOOTING Switches* --------- Cisco ,DLINK,lINKYSIS switches-Configuration AND TROUBLESHOOTING Network Monitoring Systems* ---------------------------- Cacti,smokeping Network Operations Center (NOC)* -------------------------------- Working at NOC CERT WORKSHOP APPLICANTS ONLY ============================= Which area of security interests you? ------------------------------------- What security interventions have you experienced? ------------------------------------------------- How do you intend to use the knowledge gained at the workshop? -------------------------------------------------------------- ROLE IN NATIONAL NETWORKING ACTIVITIES ====================================== A description of your current employer, your position, your duties and responsibilities, and how they relate to current and future data networking activities in your country* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Employed by SimbaNET(T) ltd as a Network and System Administrator serving over 1000 goverment and nongoverment organisations from Banks to Minstries,Health Institutes and academic institutes, 1.Configuration and installation of various Vsat transmit and receive modems, routers and wireless devices. 2.Troubleshooting the customer’s Network connectivity from customer’s point of access to upstream internet gateway. 3.Troubleshooting Customer LAN connectivity to local servers and servers on the WAN such as Mail servers and DNS Servers’. 4.Troubleshooting customer domain or hosting issues and escalating to the right team member if necessary. 5. Advising customer on how to troubleshoot and resolve LAN related problems 6. Identifying repeated problems or patterns, on customer links as well as on simbanet core link, which can result in poor connectivity. 7. Maintaining Customer monitoring tools such as Mrtg, Cacti or ALLOT utilization graphs and ensuring these are updated with each network change. 8. Carrying out tasks assigned by senior team members as per assignment and updating as necessary. 9. Maintaining customer records for temporal/permanent; upgrade, downgrade, disconnection, reconnection, running configuration. 10. Monitoring SimbaNET Servers and core link to ensure these are up. 11.Visiting various corporate customers to resolve various networking problems 12.Updating TT For the call reporting procedures from various customers 13. Administering mail servers, performing backups, checking error logs and configurations A brief description of your computing and networking environment (operating systems, networking software, modems, etc.), including the connectivity of your organization to the Internet and your country's connectivity to the international Internet* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In our organization ,we are using Windows OS For workstations and Linux for most of the servers,We USE CISCO ios and Juniper ios,Our organisation we have a STM1 connection from Seacom,We have SAF and Fibre Backhauls as well as VSAT connectivity to remote areas,we use IDIRECT modems for VSAT,Aperto Wimax BSS AND CPE'S. Our country is connected to the international internet via international fibre backbone and Upstream satellite providers. Scope of your institution (check all categories that apply)* ------------------------------------------------------------ Commercial Network Provider Academic Network Provider NGO Network Provider : Approximate number of full time staff at your institution* ---------------------------------------------------------- 100 How your training and current work prepare and qualify you for the track you wish to attend* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The training will make me more effective in serving our customers and hence improve the ICT understandinng and Infrastructure of my country as a whole,reducing costs by deploying the most effecive and less costly use of open source software to implement various solutions. How you expect to use the knowledge you gain at the workshop after you return to your country* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The training will make me more effective in serving our customers and hence improve the ICT understandinng and Infrastructure of my country as a whole,reducing costs by deploying the most effecive and less costly use of open source software to implement various solutions. If you have previously attended AfNOG or INET Workshops for Developing Countries Year and track you attended --------------------------- A precise description of how you have used the training you have received in the past ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The significant advances in networking which have occurred in your country specifically because of your knowledge and effort --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINANCIAL INFORMATION ====================== Are you are requesting financial aid from the AfNOG Workshop for attending the workshop and meetings, or for travel costs?* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No financial assistance requested. REFEREES ======== First Referee* -------------- Frank Habicht Second Referee* --------------- Peter Nyamukusa END OF APPLICATION