Masters Education Program
PARSEC’s Masters Education Program (MEP) isn't your typical online technical seminar.
What if each month you could be a part of a seminar that is geared towards creating best practices for legacy and state-of-art systems with topics such as OpenVMS Crash-Dump Analysis or IP Filtering on UNIX? Would it impress your boss if you learned new methods to ensure current relevance and utility for your company? Would it elevate your job performance, or help you solve a vexing problem? If so, save your seat now in PARSEC's next MEP!
Every month you will learn information inspired by actual case studies that you can apply on-the-spot. We pack technical and practical material into a comfortable 2 hour online session that tops off with ample time for Q&A and valued feedback. Bonus! You get exclusive access to download our extensive documentation at the time of each seminar. Here's a sample list of some of our past seminars:
- Road Trip! VMS Bootcamp 2016 Conference Report
- Bare-Metal System Recovery
- Cleaning Out the Cruft on OpenVMS
- Systemd and Other Major Changes in Redhat Linux 7
- Monitoring OpenVMS with Open-Source SNMP Tools
- OpenVMS Performance Tools
- IP Filtering on Unix
As a perk of being a much appreciated PARSEC support customer, each session is free. If your company is not yet benefiting from PARSEC’s support, you can join any MEP for a modest cost per person. Furthermore, if you sign up for a telephone support contract with us, within 30 days of attending the MEP, we will credit the seminar cost to your support invoice. For as long as you’re a support customer, you will not only enjoy the peace of mind in knowing you’re support needs are covered, but future seminars will be free as well.
Building Cheap and Easy to Use Firewalls
Firewalls used to be very expensive appliances you could only buy from integrated vendors such as Checkpoint, Nokia, or Cisco. They often required domain-specific knowledge and were difficult to configure. These days, network gear is cheap and available and firewalls can mix and match many powerful commodity network interfaces. Open Source firewall distributions are freely available, easy to install, easy to manage, and offer a lot of extra features. Join us as we discuss how to build, deploy, and configure firewalls for use inside any size of company.
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Common Firewall Hardware
1.2 Firewall Operating Environments
2.0 Selecting Firewall Hardware
2.1 The Case for Using the HP DL360 as Firewall
2.2 NetGate Hardware for pfSense
2.3 Cheap Chinese Fanless Firewalls
2.4 Using Exotic Hardware for Firewalls
2.X Using recycled Nokia Hardware
3.0 Network Interfaces
3.1 Best Gigabit Copper NICs for Firewall Use
3.2 Fiber Optic Basics
3.3 10GBE Media Options
3.4 Wireless Interface Options
3.5 Exotic Interfaces
4.0 Software Options for Firewalls
4.1 pfSense is Free as in Beer
4.2 OPNSense is Free as in Freedom
4.3 Raw BSD PF Firewalls
4.4 VyOS is Linux Based
4.5 IPFire
5.0 Firewall Management for Nix Hosts
5.1 The FWBuilder GUI
5.2 Sophos XG Firewalls
5.3 Older Classic Firewalls
6.0 Conclusion
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MDT. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Mastering LVM
The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a storage management subsystem for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and has also been implemented on NetBSD. The purpose of LVM is manifold. It was initial conceived as a way to keep block-level mirrors for disks. However, it’s feature list has grown a long way from mere concatenation over the years to include multiple RAID levels, inline compression, hot spares, inline deduplication, device migration, performance, and disaster recovery features. If you are a longtime user of LVM but haven’t seen the features than came with the advent of the VDO layer, you’ll be excited by these new tricks. If you are a Linux LVM user you might be interested in the quirks in LVM on other platforms. We’ll review the basics, but spend time on the cool cutting-edge features also.
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MDT. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Trip Report of OpenVMS Bootcamp
VMS Software re-instated an old concept in the OpenVMS circles. It's been called DECUS, Encompass, and a few other names, but on October 23rd - October 25th of 2024, VMS Software had their first OpenVMS Bootcamp.
This months seminar will be a recap of my time there. It is physically impossible to attend all the evetns as there are four events running simulaneously for each hour of the three day event.
The following URL shows the agenda and hopefully will still be available in November.
https://events.vmssoftware.com/bootcamp-2024/agenda?utm_campaign=Boston%20Event&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--v-7idVyaXlcbz8kiRgDlTupRsRRsAqSyMHaY2T4bcS4bn-UgQXt_jEbhhEo8UGHYR5WbrkkWk8er_QqMJsJml3MfLHg&_hsmi=324536257&utm_content=324536257&utm_source=hs_email
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MST. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Worry-Free Delivery
PARSEC Group uses Zoom to deliver our e-Learning to our customers. Zoom provides several options for connecting to the class.
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Audio is provided via Voice over IP (VoIP) and requires speakers, or a USB headset.
