Programme committee

Wolfgang Barth

Wolfgang Barth is author of the first Nagios book. He looks after VMS, Digital UNIX (Tru64), SunOS/Solaris, IBM AIX and HP-UX systems. For him Linux is the logical next-step in the development of UNIX.

In his book "Nagios" he helps beginners and experienced users with the configuration of Nagios. His current project is a Nagios Live CD.

Jens-Christoph Brendel

Jens-Christoph Brendel is a journalist with more than a decade's experience of unix systems administration and troubleshooting. Today he combines writing with computer science as chief editor of the "Linux Technical Review", the second issue of which was dedicated to monitoring themes.

Markus Kösters

Markus Kösters works for the "Bundestelle für Informationstechnik(BIT)", the German federal IT provider, as a system administrator. His knowledge of UNIX and open source, gleaned from many years experience managing heterogeneous system environments, has proved itself repeatedly. As part of the ITIL rollout he lead the "Incident Management" subteam, whose tasks included introducing a comprehensive monitoring system. This was implemented with Nagios and other open-source tools.

Jörg Linge

Jörg Linge has been employed as the UNIX system administrator for a large publishing house in Kassel for over 10 years. His primary job involves managing the UNIX servers and monitoring the system with Nagios. In his free time he moderates the German Nagios Forum, is a co-organizer of the Nagios community workshops, and codes for his PNP grapher project.

Torsten Haase

Thorsten Haase is a member of the System Management Team of "VR Kreditwerk Hamburg- Schwäbisch Hall".
As Systems Administrator he is working on Mainframe Automation and manages a current project, in which an existing monitoring solution is getting replaced by Nagios.

Julian Hein

Julian Hein is the founder and managing director of the company NETWAYS GmbH, which right from the very beginning used the first versions of NetSaint and Nagios in its projects.

NETWAYS is also responsible for managing the plugin portal  www.nagiosexchange.org, which has established itself as the official repository for Nagios extensions.