OpenUEM Fundamentals: Endpoint Management Essentials Training Course

Matrix is an open protocol for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. Organizations are increasingly adopting Matrix with the Element client as an alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams to maintain end-to-end encryption, on-premise data residency, and federation with external trusted partners.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at network and system administrators who wish to implement enterprise-grade network monitoring using open-source tools without vendor dependencies.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to deploy LibreNMS and Zabbix, monitor network devices, create dashboards and alerts, implement distributed monitoring, and integrate with external systems.

In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite), participants will learn how to use ONAP to automate networking services.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand, install and configure the various components in the ONAP ecosystem.
• Carry out real-time, policy-driven orchestration and automation of physical and virtual network functions.
• Design, create, orchestrate, and monitor VNFs, SDNs and other network services.
• Efficiently manage the entire networking lifecycle using a software-driven approach.
• Develop, deploy, and scale a network using the latest open source technologies and practices.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level network professionals who wish to effectively manage and operate SD-WAN networks, including design, configuration, troubleshooting, and optimization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental concepts, benefits, and challenges associated with SD-WAN technologies.
• Design an SD-WAN architecture tailored to organizational needs and deploy SD-WAN solutions effectively.
• Implement and manage security features within an SD-WAN.
• Monitor, manage, and troubleshoot SD-WAN environments.

The 'Computer Network Security – How to Secure Your Services' training covers mechanisms and services that protect modern network solutions. It includes the fundamentals of data confidentiality and integrity, the use of encryption, certificates, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and secure password storage. The course also discusses security protocols and services in networks, security systems, wireless network protection, interconnecting branch offices, and security testing through penetration tests, network scanning, and vulnerability detection.

Synapse serves as the reference implementation for a Matrix homeserver, facilitating decentralized, end-to-end encrypted messaging. This instructor-led live training session (available online or onsite) targets intermediate DevOps engineers and system administrators who aim to utilise Synapse and Element to replace cloud-based chat services with a self-hosted, federated messaging infrastructure.

Uptime Kuma is an intuitive, self-hosted monitoring tool designed to track the availability of websites, services, and infrastructure. It serves as a robust alternative to Pingdom, Datadog Synthetics, and UptimeRobot for teams seeking full control over their monitoring data. This instructor-led live training (available online or onsite) targets beginner-to-intermediate Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and DevOps engineers aiming to transition from cloud-based uptime monitoring to a self-hosted, sovereign status tracking platform using Uptime Kuma.

OpenVPN and WireGuard are the two leading open-source VPN protocols. By hosting your own VPN server, you ensure that no third-party provider can log traffic metadata, inject advertisements, or comply with foreign data requests. This training covers both protocols to address various threat models and performance requirements.