Weekly Snap:NETWAYSGrapherV2 and HWg-STE PoE out, Facebook and YouTube about

26 – 30 April was a hell of a week with volcanic effects on Puppet courses, Grapher release, new hardware and YouTube and Facebook tips.
Eric celebrated the release of our final, stable NETWAYSGrapherV2. Taking a quick look at the latest from the change logs, he ensured us of improvements to installation, higher browser compatibility, stable collector and a new graphing component – Flot. Which we paid our respects to, and explained the reasoning behind our move from Flash to Flot. Check it out at www.netways.org.
Meanwhile, Manuela lamented Eyjafjallajökull volcalnic onslaught onto Germany’s first Puppet training course, stranding our Puppet Labs trainer, Dan Bode from the USA and delaying the course for a day. Once underway though, Manuela reported a successful workshop with a second one in the pipes for autumn.
Moving on to eruptions of other sorts, Manuela turned into the exploding online social network scene. With over 7.5 million active users every month, German companies too are jumping onboard the Facebook ship. She offered a few tips from an interesting article by Andrew Bersch, from winning and exciting fans to online competitions and using fan pages as a 2 way communication channel.
Hardware man Martin announced the latest addition to our hardware shop – HW group HWg-STE PoE boasting built in web interface with graphing capabilities, alerts via email and SNMP Trap, 3m temperature sensor, the connection of two temperature and humidity sensors and more. Available through our online shop with a plugin developed in-house for monitoring solutions like Icinga and Nagios to boot.
Finally, Manuela tipped off the YouTube channel of presentations for the recent OpenExpo in Bern where Julian spoke on “IT Service Management with Open Source Software”. Their channel of speaker presentations comes with slides in PDF format to download, all for free – enjoy!