Weekly Snap: OpenLDAP & Jasper Reports, OSMC Partners & Xsensior Sensors

22 – 26 August offered tips on Jasper Reports and OpenLDAP, introduced the OSMC partners and USB sensors for Windows.
To start the week, Pamela announced our partners for this year’s OSMC (Open Source Monitoring Conference). Linux Magazin, Admin Magazin and Thomas Krenn will support us again, while SuSE Linux will for the very first time.
From our hardware store, Martin introduced a simple environmental monitoring device for Windows. The Xsensior Lite USB temperature and humidity sensors come equipped with software to monitor up to 10 sensors displayed in tabs side by side. They can also export .csv metrics to other formats e.g. MS Excel, for further processing and can alert via email. With a USB extension, these simple sensors can also be set up a little further away.
Marius  then offered an easier way to prepare reports – with Jasper and SOAP. Alongside an interface to manage reports and their resources, JasperServer also exports its functionality via SOAP. Installation is easy – either the complete package or just the application can be deployed on a Tomcat server. Report templates can also be created with the report designer iReport, and transferred to the server. Marius showed how to format a report with PHP and recommended a bunch of other docs for more advice.
Finally, Philipp followed with his own 4-step how-to on extending OpenLDAP 2.4 schemas with cn=config.