NETWAYS Nagios Conference 2008

Ethan Galstad

Nagios Creator and Lead Developer
Ethan Galstad boasts over nine years experience in open source software development.

Since creating Nagios (formerly known as NetSaint) in 1999, the open source monitoring system has grown in popularity to an estimated global user base of over 100,000.

He founded Nagios Enterprises, LLC in 2007 to provide commercial services and products for and complementary to Nagios.
Ethan currently serves on the Advisory Board for Splunk, Inc. - a technology startup based in San Francisco.  He also is a member of the Open Source Council founded by Groundwork Open Source, Inc. - a San Francisco based provider of enterprise IT management solutions.

Ton Voon

Nagios Plug-in Project Lead Developer, Altinity

Under the employ of Altinty, Tom Voon leads the development of the best cross platform UNIX Plug-ins for Nagios.

Altinity is the leading UK supplier of open source network management solutions, developing systems based on Nagios and the Nagios Plug-ins.

Wolfgang Barth

Author of ‘Nagios: System and Network Monitoring’ the Nagios handbook

As author of the first Nagios handbook, Wolfgang Barth’s expertise covers 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.

Please note that Wolfgang will give his speeches in German

Andreas Ericsson

Andreas is Member of Nagios Enterprises Community Advisory Board, System Architect and Software Engineer with Swedish Open Source Management company op5.

Julian Hein

Julian Hein is founding partner of NETWAYS GmbH. NETWAYS is using Nagios from the earliest releases (NetSaint).  They also created  www.nagiosexchange.org, the official catalog for 3rd party Nagios plugins and addons.

Being a Nagios Enterprises preferred partner, NETWAYS makes a point of releasing all its addons like NagopsGrapher and EventDB as GPL'ed Open Source Software.

Dr. Satish Jonnavithula

Dr. Satish Jonnavithula, Vice President at JPMorgan Chase, is a Solutions Architect, working for Foundational Components that get used across JPMorganChase. After getting his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, he designed and architected applications for energy trading companies including El Paso Corporation, Entergy and Enron.

Dr. Steven Neiman

Dr. Steven Neiman, Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, has been tackling various problems involving information complexity throughout his career. Driven by well-defined business needs, Steve’s projects have ranged from rules engines to interactive visualizations to supercomputing. His current focus is to drive the themes of scale, simplicity, and integration across the Investment Bank’s application infrastructure through the use of integrated open source frameworks. Among his awards are JPMC’s Distinguished Engineer and InformationWeek’s “Innovators and Influencers”.

After getting his Ph.D. in high energy physics, Steve worked for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and for Digital Image Design, before coming to work at J.P. Morgan. Steve also has his MBA from Columbia University as well as four patents involving grid computing.

Frank Maerz

Roaming Specialist, T-Mobile Germany

Frank Maerz ensures data roaming services while roaming for T-Mobile outbound roamer and foreign inbound roamer on T-Mobile networks. He is based in the European Service Operation Center for International Roaming.
T-Mobile started to use Nagios in 2004 when they discovered they could monitor not just the T-Mobile network, but also transit carrier networks and foreign networks.

Today T-Mobile uses Nagios as the main monitoring system for ensuring inter GSM network connectivity and data roaming performance management as well as normal host and service monitoring.

T-Mobile’s Nagios checks extend over 450 foreign GSM networks in almost all countries which operate GSM networks in the world.

Christian Hirsch

Data Roaming Monitoring System Technician, T-Mobile Deutschland

Christian Hirsch is T-Mobile's open source data roaming monitoring systems expert. He is responsible for all official Nagios solutions deployed at several T-Mobile networks in Europe used for roaming.

Based in the European Service Operation Center for International Roaming since 2006, he has been with T-Mobile for the last 6 years.

He also boasts many years of Linux experience and mobile operator network security expertise.

Robert M. Albrecht

Robert M. Albrecht has been a Linux user since 1992, and active in system administration and training for about 10 years. He published several books and dozens of magazine articles on operating systems and programming languages. He maintains Nagios and some Nagios related packages for FedoraProject.

T-Systems Enterprise Services has deployed a large scale Nagios installation for monitoring his infrastructure and service-provider.

Jose Luis Martinez

Jose Luis is a Computer Engineer by UPC (Barcelona) with large experience in software design, development and specially perl-based development.

Currently he works as CTO at CAPSiDE, a software and systems engineering specialized on LAMP and mission critical systems located in Barcelona. He is also interested in mail server software and anti-spam tecniques, as CAPSiDE develops a mail server solution called NEVRiON.

CAPSiDE is monitoring customer infrastructure for medium and large companies with Nagios based Opsview, actively contributing to develop Opsview and contributing Nagios related perl modules (Nagios::Plugin::DieNicely) to the community.

Stefan Kaltenbrunner

Stefan Kaltenbrunner is working at conova communications GmbH in Groeding / Austria as a Senior Systems Engineer. He is additionally a "major contributor" at the PostgreSQL OpenSource Project.

Geert Vanderkelen

Geert Vanderkelen is a member of the MySQL Support Team at Sun
Microsystems. He is based in Germany and has worked for MySQL AB since
April, 2005. Before joining MySQL he worked as developer, DBA and
SysAdmin for various companies in Belgium and Germany. Today Geert
specializes in MySQL Cluster and works together with colleagues around
the world to ensure continued support for both customers and community.

Malte Sussdorff

Malte Sussdorff is working as a ]project-open[ Partner and implementor at cognovís GmbH & Co.KG in Hamburg. He has been a core team member of the OpenACS project for many years contributed many modules. Apart from consulting on research projects, Malte Sussdorff is working on the ]project-open[ ITSM solution, including the Nagios integration. ]project-open[ ITSM is an OSS Web-Based "Enterprise Project Management" software which integrates the service lifecycle from CRM to payments for IT service management.

Michael Medin

Michael Medin is an open source developer and has written an agent for monitoring windows based servers from nagios (NSClient++ ) as well as various other open source projects. On his not-so-spare time he works as a consultant doing Integration work on Java/Oracle and when he is not working diligently at his computer he is often found riding his mountain bike along some rocky single track in the glorious Swedish countryside.

Tom De Cooman

Tom De Cooman has been a Linux user for over 8 years, and active in system's administration for about 4 years. He is a general Unix system administrator with focus/strong interest in monitoring, mail and virtualisation.

Previously he has been working mostly for System Integrators and also has a lot of experience with SUN hardware and software.

Rouven Homann

Rouven gained his first experience with Nagios in 2002. He is currently working as an IT-Consultant for the cimt ag. In the meanwhile he released several Open Source Nagios Plugins and joined the NagiosQL project in June 2005 as co-developer and was mostly involved in Software Change- & Configuration Management processes for NagiosQL. Recently he focused his work in managing the NagiosQL3 development processes, establishing a multi-language functionality and developing some other bits and peaces of the code. In his spare time he is writing news articles about different Open Source projects.