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WHAT THE HACK?!


Only 16 days to go?
Time for you to speed up: Grab one of our popular Hackathon tickets and join the event on Nov 08!
It’s fun! You’ll start the day with a short round of introductions, then run a brainstorming session for possible topics in addition to these ones that we came up with so far:

OPENNMS   |   NSCLIENT   |   GRAYLOG
ICINGA   |   ZABBIX   |   PROMETHEUS   |   ELASTIC

Team up, accept the challenge, collaborate to find a solution, succeed!
Find all details at: osmc.de/hackathon

 

Taking place on Nov 08 the Hackathon directly follows OSMC’s lecture program. Be part of OSMC and round off your stay! Get your conference and add-on ticket here! We would be happy to see you soon at…

#OSMC | November 5 – 8, 2018 | Nuremberg

OSMC: Extend your stay / knowledge!

 
OSMC is coming! Once again the Open Source Monitoring Conference assembles some of the most important representatives of the international Open Source scene. Get in touch and inspired by their talks:
 

>> CHECK OUT THE PROGRAM

 
Besides the lecture program OSMC offers plenty of opportunities to learn even more: Round off your participation with…

  • A pre-conference Workshop | Nov 05. FYI: Prometheus and Icinga 2 / Puppet are sold out. Get your Graylog or Ansible workshop ticket quickly!
  • What the… Hackathon! Team up, define the challenge, collaborate, succeed | Nov 08.
  • OSCAMP on Puppet! Same venue, NEW EVENT with a special focus: Be part of the Puppet Masters League | Nov 08. For more info and your OSCAMP ticket visit: opensourcecamp.de

Don’t miss the chance to extend your stay / knowledge and get your OSMC conference ticket plus add-on!
 

>> REGISTER NOW!

 
We would be happy to see you soon at…

#OSMC | November 5 – 8, 2018 | Nuremberg

Monthly Snap November > OSMC 2017, OSDC 2018, Puppet, GitLab EE, Icinga 2, NETWAYS Startupdays, Visual Studio 2017

In November, we had our international Open Source Monitoring Conference where Markus announced the last tickets for. Julia blogged live OSMC news, and Michael explained how to replace spaces with tabs in Visual Studio 2017, while Dirk told us about Custom Datatypes in Puppet.
Nicole always brings something interesting every month, this time she showed some NETWAYS Web Services: GitLab EE and connect to your own Domain!. Noah explained Icinga 2 – CA Proxy, Christoph brought some creative stuff in “Unusual Surveillances” and Isabel shared some news on the SMSEagle.
Later in November, Dirk shared his impressions of OSMC day 1 and 2 as well as the news from the Hackathon on the last day of OSMC. Keya announced the Call for Papers for the Open Source Data Center Conference and last but not least, Philipp shared exciting news from the NETWAYS Startupdays, before the Christmas month at NETWAYS starts.

Keya Kher
Keya Kher
Marketing Specialist

Keya ist seit Oktober 2017 in unserem Marketing Team. Nach ihrer Elternzeit ist sie seit Februar 2024 wieder zurück, um sich speziell um Icinga-Themen zu kümmern. Wenn sie sich nicht kreativ auslebt, entdeckt sie andere Städte oder schmökert in einem Buch. Ihr Favorit ist “The Shiva Trilogy”.  

Monitoring – it’s all about integration and automation – OSMC 2017 Hackathon

OSMC 2017
Also this year we organized a hackathon as follow up and managed to get about 50 people to work on actual coding. We started again with a small round of introduction so everyone had the chance to find people with same interests or knowledge needed. Afterwards people started to hack on Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2, different Modules, OpenNMS, Zabbix, Mgmt, NSClient++, Docker containers, Ansible and Puppet code or simply help others with configuration and other tasks to solve in their environment.
Here is a list of some things developed or at least designed today:
* Tom accepted and improved some of my pull requests, so the director got more property modifiers
* He also was working on improving notifications to allow managing them via a custom attribute of hosts and services
* Markus was improving Icinga packaging resulting in new package releases for SLES and support for Fedora 27
* Bodo was trying to move the ruby library for Icinga 2 to 1.0.0 release and got valuable input by Gunnar for displaying API coverage
* Thomas improved his diagnostics script for Icinga 2 to help with troubleshooting
* Nicola was working on a graphical picker for the geolocation in the Director for his awesome map module while getting several other ideas and requests
* David started a Single Sign On module for Icinga Web 2
* Mgmt got some improvements by Julien, Toshaan und James
* Michael was working on Elastic integration and web based installer for NSClient++
* Gunnar and Michael discussed so many features they actual did not find time for hacking, but keep our eyes open for Elastic 6 support and datatypes for arguments
* Steffen, Blerim and Michael discussed how to fix a problem with running two Icingabeat instances which now could probably be solved
* Stephan finally solved the management issue of red alerts in Icinga Web 2 😉


Furthermore an impressive amount of knowledge was transferred, user questions got answered and problems got solved. One thing I am really happy about seeing one user to use the URL encode property modifier only minutes after being accept by Tom to create Hostgroups including membership assignment from PuppetDB. But I want to end this blogpost with one really cool thing Dave from the Australian Icinga Partner Sol1 showed us. This map displays all pubs in Australia because it monitors Satellite receivers to visualize any large outages for Sky Racing Australia.
Map of Australian Pubs by Sol1
So have a nice weekend and keep on hacking.

Dirk Götz
Dirk Götz
Principal Consultant

Dirk ist Red Hat Spezialist und arbeitet bei NETWAYS im Bereich Consulting für Icinga, Puppet, Ansible, Foreman und andere Systems-Management-Lösungen. Früher war er bei einem Träger der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung als Senior Administrator beschäftigt und auch für die Ausbildung der Azubis verantwortlich wie nun bei NETWAYS.

Most awaited OSMC is here!!

Hello! Your long wait is over and finally OSMC day starts. As the day begins with the following workshops Icinga 2 – Distributed Monitoring by Lennart Betz, Ansible – Configuration Management by Thilo Wening, Timesseries & Analysis with Graphite and Grafana by Markus Waldmüller and Elastic Stack – Modern Logfile Management by Thomas Widhalm. WOW! Lot more to know.
Bernd will kick start the Day 2 & 3 with so much exciting talks, Alba Ferri Fitó from Vodafone, Martin Schurz from T-Systems, Rihards Olups from Nokia, James Shubin from Red Hat and the long list of the speakers across the world. The day will follow by “evening event” where you can socialize with the fellow with the same interest.
Last day of conference is the “Hackathon Day”.
Download our OSMC App and Enjoy the conference.
 
 
 

Keya Kher
Keya Kher
Marketing Specialist

Keya ist seit Oktober 2017 in unserem Marketing Team. Nach ihrer Elternzeit ist sie seit Februar 2024 wieder zurück, um sich speziell um Icinga-Themen zu kümmern. Wenn sie sich nicht kreativ auslebt, entdeckt sie andere Städte oder schmökert in einem Buch. Ihr Favorit ist “The Shiva Trilogy”.