May 17 – 21 Manuela was on fire this week, with Nagios training and recruitment announcements as well as an Open Source Monitoring Conference Call for Papers! Only Bernd managed to squeeze in a word about his recent visit to the monitoring conference in Bozen.
Once again, the Free Software Center South Tyrol and Würth Phoenix GmbH held a conference with a focus on monitoring and Nagios in Bozen, Italy. Nagios Founder, Ethan Galstad made a keynote presentation on Nagios developments, future plans and introduced NagiosXI. Other presenters included Michael Medin of NSClient++, Reinhard Schek from Cacti and Luca Deri from Ntop. To top it off we got to meet old friends as well as new, like Massimo Forni the newest member of Team Icinga.
On the topic of teams, Manuela announced our current job offers. We are seeking a Project Manager, Linux Consultant (Systems Management), Bookkeeper and Sales Manager to join our 20 man team. An apprenticeship place is also open for an aspiring Events Marketer. More details are available at the jobs area of our website.
Manuela then extended her call out to interested speakers for the Open Source Monitoring Conference (OSMC) coming up on 6 – 7 October this year. Previously known as the Nagios Conference, the OSMC will be in its 5th year running and promises to be the event for the latest monitoring technology, ideas and exchange. With early bird specials already available, register right away for this regular sell-out event and get it at a discount till 30 June 2010. For interested speakers, check out our Call for Papers to get your chance to be in the limelight this year.
If you can’t wait till October to get your Nagios tips, the Nagios Availability training course is around the corner on 28 June to 1 July. Trainer Michi Streb will be heading it once again to share his practical expertise with Nagios newbies to cover the Nagios essentials. Register quick to get monitoring made easy.
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Nagios Schulung: 28. Juni – 01. Juli 2010
Die nächste Nagios Availability Schulung steht vor der Türe!
Vom 28. Juni. – 01. Juli 2010 wird unser Trainer Michi Streb samt Kollege wieder in gewohnt praktischer und anschaulicher 
Weise den Nagios Neuling durch die Schulung führen. Da es sich um eine Einsteigerschulung handelt geht es um Basics und es werden beispielsweise Fragen geklärt wie: Was ist Nagios und wie funktioniert es? Wie wird Nagios konfiguriert? Wie erfolgt eine Windows Überwachung mit Nagios? Wie können SNMP basierte Netzwerkkomponenten in Nagios integriert werden? Welche nützlichen Addons rund um Nagios gibt es? Wie überwache ich Geschäftsprozesse mit Nagios? Darüberhinaus kann durch unser einmaliges zwei-Trainer-Konzept auf den individuellen Kenntnissstand jedes einzelnen eingegangen werden und natürlich auch auf spezifische Fragen und Problemstellungen reagiert werden.
Eine Anmeldung ist ab sofort hier möglich.
Weekly Snap: CeBIT craze and Nagios training haze
Mar 1 – 6 got CeBIT crazy with a virtual Nagios training here and a physical Nagios training there.
From the office Manuela announced trainings galore with a new interactive Nagios learning experience. In cooperation with Linux Magazin Academy, our trainer Michael Streb will be rattling off 13 video classes on Nagios for newbies. Available online, whenever, wherever and as often as desired, the new training course comes with a free demo. For those who like it in the flesh, a few last tickets are on the go for a Nagios beginners workshop on 15 – 18 March. Grab a discount by registering with the voucher code: “NaMä5″
Beginning with the first impressions and ending with the last, snippets and photos where flying out from our team at this year’s CeBIT. Of note, was the immense interest in Puppet for configuration management, and monitoring solutions Nagios and Icinga. Perhaps it had something to do with the well received presentations by Julian (‚Monitoring Large IT Infrastructures with Nagios and Icinga’), Bernd (‘Open Source Data Warehouse for IT Management’ and ‘Project Icinga’) and Michael (‘Nagios Online Training’)which will be available on in Linux Magazin’s Live Streaming archives soon.
Nonetheless, with visits from Radio F and the Nürnberger newspaper, to political VIPs Ms Beate Merk and Mr Franz Josef Pschierer and trumpeting Bavarian brass bands in lederhosen, this year’s CeBIT was definitely memorable one.
Weekly Snap: Nagios Training & CeBIT offers, JConsole, NSClient, Bacula tips
Jan 25-29 was a packed week with monitoring tips on Java, hardware and NSClient++ , a Bacula appearance plus event dates to remember.
Always open to convenient, info-in-a-glance solutions, Bernd shared his latest Java monitoring kick: JConsole a swing application to monitor Java processes via JMX on local or remote systems. With a few screenshots from iReport, he offered a peek into the memory use of virtual machines and the Java caused processor load provided by JConsole. Bundled to Java since version 1.5, JConsole is his recommendation for a quick overview of your virtual machines.
For reading recommendations, Julian contributed a print and online article on Bacula in Computerwoche, commending their milestone 1 millionth download on the wayside.
More on the monitoring front, hardware man Martin, shared HW group’s new firmware for the HWg-STE network thermometer and Michael followed with part 2 of his NSClient++ series. He offered a thorough installation guide from download of the MSI pack or ZIP archive to registration and check activation, configuration and test.
Finally, Manuela tipped off two dates to keep in mind for March: 2nd-3rd for CeBIT and 15th-18th for our Nagios Availability training course. To be held at the Holiday Inn in Nuremberg, the course is for Nagios newbies, offering a strong foundation in system monitoring, Nagios, its addons, and practical exercises such as web frontend connection, configuration and integration. As generous as we are, our blog readers get a 5% discount if they quote “Blog_NSch” when registering. Otherwise email Manuela (manuela.pirner@netways.de) for free tickets to CeBIT, so you can swing by to visit us in Hall 9, Stand B20. We hope to see you there!
