NETWAYS Nagios Conference 2008 Program Committee

Wolfgang Barth

Wolfgang Barth is author of ‘Nagios: System and Network Monitoring’, the first Nagios handbook. 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: System and Network Monitoring’, he helps beginners and experienced users with the configuration of Nagios.

Jens-Christoph Brendel

Jens-Christoph Brendel is a journalist with more than a decade of experience with 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 softwares.

Markus Kösters

Markus Kösters works for the "Bundestelle für Informationstechnik(BIT)", the German federal IT provider, as a system administrator. His extensive knowledge of UNIX and open source, gleaned from many years experience managing heterogeneous system environments, has been instrumental to many projects. As part of the ITIL rollout he led the "Incident Management" sub team, 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.

Julian Hein

Julian Hein is the founder and managing director of the company NETWAYS GmbH. Since conception, NETWAYS worked with the first versions of NetSaint and Nagios in its projects, and continues to today.

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