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Weekly Snap: Hardware deals & OSMC CfP to Pangolin & PostgreSQL

Published by Amanda Mailer on 14.05.2012 in Diverses and English. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

camera Weekly Snap: Hardware deals & OSMC CfP to Pangolin & PostgreSQL7 – 11 May was packed with tidbits from all corners of the office – from hardware sales and open source events to database and operating system tips.

Georg began by announcing our hardware shop’s summer sale, as well as a new 2N UMTS router in store.

Stefan followed with his hyperthreading workaround for slow performance in Ubuntu LTS 12.04 “Precise Pangolin”, while Marius put his case forward for PostgreSQL.

On the event circuit, Bernd presented at the Open Source System Management Conference in Bolzano and Eva opened the Call for Papers to our Open Source Monitoring Conference on 17 – 18 October. Interested speakers are welcome to submit their presentation ideas by 30 June.

Finally, Tobias gave us his second round of IT buzzwords to lighten a busy week.

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Weekly Snap: RootCamp Berlin & LinuxTag Coming Up

Published by Amanda Mailer on 07.05.2012 in Diverses and English. 0 Comments Tags: , .

camera Weekly Snap: RootCamp Berlin & LinuxTag Coming Up30 April – 4 May was a quick week featuring two related open source events – RootCamp Berlin and LinuxTag coming in 2 weeks or so.

On 23 – 26 May, the popular LinuxTag will be held in Berlin and our senior consultant, Thomas will join with a talk on “Building Your Own Cloud from the Linux Toolbox”.

As the “unconference” feature of the LinuxTag, RootCamp Berlin will make its debut on the last two days (25 – 26 May). For a handful of dollars, attendees get to take the reins and create their own program. A bunch from our team will be joining in the fun, so we hope to see you there!

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Weekly Snap: OSDC 2012 from Start to Finish, with Zend JSON in Between

Published by Amanda Mailer on 30.04.2012 in Diverses and English. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

camera Weekly Snap: OSDC 2012 from Start to Finish, with Zend JSON in Between23 – 27 April was dedicated to the Open Source Data Center Conference with brief digression into Zend JSON context switches by the development team.

From the Puppet, OpenNebula and IPv6 workshops on the conference eve, to the engrossing presentations and evening event after, this year’s OSDC was a resounding success.

We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did, and look forward to seeing you at the RootCamp in Berlin or Open Source Monitoring Conference later this year.

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Weekly Snap: UNetbootin, Python Futures, AKCP sensors & Check_Interfaces

Published by Amanda Mailer on 23.04.2012 in Diverses and English. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

camera Weekly Snap: UNetbootin, Python Futures, AKCP sensors & Check Interfaces16 – 20 April got into the spring mood with ideas for data centers, live USB drives, and check plugin updates.

Starting with tips, Thilo recommended UNetbootin for no-fuss live USB drives, and Gunnar played with the “futures” feature in Python 3.2.

Georg got ready for warmer temperatures reviewing AKCP environment sensors for data centers, while Lennart announced version 1.2 of the check_interfaces plugin with two new features, ready for download on www.netways.org.

To end the week, Eva offered last minute tickets to our Open Source Data Center Conference that sold out just two days later. We look forward to seeing you for the kick off on Wednesday!

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Weekly Snap: XEN PV, Mounting via SSH & JavaScript APIs

Published by Amanda Mailer on 16.04.2012 in Diverses and English. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

camera Weekly Snap: XEN PV, Mounting via SSH & JavaScript APIs9 – 13 April brought a little something from every corner of the office, including tips for XEN, file APIs and file systems.

Managed Services’ Martin fiddled with XEN PV drivers on Windows, while one of our consultants – Tobias, showed how to mount a file system over SSH with sshfs.

From the development team, Jannis shared his tip for JavaScript file APIs and large files and Eva of Events announced this year’s OSDC dinner and drinks at California. Join us for good food, drink and discussions once again!

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Weekly Snap: Icinga Workshops, Database Expansion & Fing for Home

Published by Amanda Mailer on 09.04.2012 in Diverses and English. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

camera Weekly Snap: Icinga Workshops, Database Expansion & Fing for Home2 – 6 April started spring with Icinga training courses and ideas for networks large and small.

From the Managed Services team, Sebastian offered his tips to expand LVM, MongoDB and PostgreSQL volumes while Marius shared his for managing home networks from your smart phone.

Eva announced our upcoming Icinga courses in Nuremberg on 7 – 11 May and Düsseldorf 21 – 25 May, ideal for beginners to monitoring. Register for the intensive workshops now!

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Weekly Snap: Puppet 2.5, Python Debugger, OSDC Partners & Icinga/Nagios Training

Published by Amanda Mailer on 02.04.2012 in Diverses and English. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

camera Weekly Snap: Puppet 2.5, Python Debugger, OSDC Partners & Icinga/Nagios Training

26 – 30 March ended the month with a good mix of Python and Puppet tips, MySQL lessons and events.

Eva started by thanking our sponsors, Linux Magazin, Admin Magazin and SuSE in the lead up to the Open Source Data Center Conference on 25 – 26 April.

Sebastian then encountered a strange MySQL master-master cluster error while Eric explained how to use the Python Debugger and Bernd forwarded news of the latest Puppet Enterprise 2.5 release.

Lastly, Phillipp celebrated our inaugural Icinga/Nagios Availability Monitoring training course in Düsseldorf, with a second to come on 21 – 25 May.

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Weekly Snap: Selenium, Jenkins & Valgrind Help, FLOSS UK & OSDC intensive workshops

Published by Amanda Mailer on 26.03.2012 in Diverses and English. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

camera Weekly Snap: Selenium, Jenkins & Valgrind Help, FLOSS UK & OSDC intensive workshops19 – 23 March was packed with events – upcoming and bygone, international and local; tech advice from the development team and contributions from our consultants.

In a very international NETWAYS week, Marius and Eric headed off to the Ukraine to run an Icinga and InGraph training course for a client, while Bernd joined the FLOSS UK Spring Conference with a presentation on “Icinga at Deutsche Welle”. He also snapped up the opportunity to join a lively Puppet Camp in Edinburgh a day after.

Tobias then contemplated potential blog content for the future and Christoph introduced himself, his work and life out of the office.

Pamela shared our happy snaps from the recent CeBIT 2012 and reminded OSDC attendees to get their tickets for our intensive workshops on 24 April (conference eve).

Finally, from the development team, Ansgar offered some advice for common Selenium and Jenkins problems, while Gunnar offered his tip for finding memory leaks with Valgrind.

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FLOSS UK – Spring Conference 2012

Published by Bernd Erk on 22.03.2012 in English, Events and ICINGA. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

FLOSS UK steht für “Free and Libre Open Source Software UK” und ist der neue Name für die UKUUG “UK Unix Users Group”. Das sei zur Erläuterung gleich zu Beginn des Blogposts klargestellt, da ich auch etwas gebraucht habe um den Unterschied und die Veränderung der ältesten Usergruppe in UK nachzuvollziehen. Man bekennt sich also klar zu Open Source und hat bereits die letzen Jahre Vorträge mit den Schwerpunkten Linux, Virtualisierung und darum angesiedelte Tools in den Mittelpunkt gestellt.

Die alljährliche Konferenz, welche dieses Jahr in Edinburgh stattfindet hat eine größer werdende Fangemeinde und mittlerweile kennt man den ein oder anderen auch von anderen Konferenzen. Gestern habe ich mit meinem Vortrag zum Thema “Icinga bei der Deutschen Welle” auch zum Programm beigetragen.

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Viele kennen Icinga bereits und haben nach dem Vortrag im letzten Jahr ihr Nagios damit ersetzt. Ein lokaler Hoster verwendet beispielsweise den JSON-Output des klassischen Interfaces für seine Management-Konsole und bat mich Ricardo Bartels (verantwortlich für dieses Classic-Enhancement) den Dank auszurichten, was ich somit mache!

Die von Google gesponserte Abendveranstaltung fand in den Caves statt, einer wirklich sehr originellen Location hier in Edinburgh statt. Der Abend war unterhaltsam und ich hatte glücklicherweise nicht weit zum Hotel. Heute stehen noch einige Vorträge an und morgen findet in der selben Location das PuppetCamp statt. Ich bin gespannt!

Hier noch ein Bilder von der Konferenz und der Abendveranstaltung.

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Weekly Snap: CeBIT Craze & an Apprentice’s Impressions

Published by Amanda Mailer on 12.03.2012 in Diverses and English. 0 Comments Tags: , .

camera Weekly Snap: CeBIT Craze & an Apprentice’s Impressions5 – 9 March was centered on CeBIT – photos, presentations and perspectives, with a few reflections and tips for hopeful apprentices by our own apprentice developer Johannes.

We kicked off the first CeBIT day with a team shot and a presentation on “Enterprise Monitoring with Icinga” at the Open Source Forum.

Crowds at our stand then grew on the second day with particular interest in Icinga and OpenNebula. Meanwhile Tom shared his expertise on Puppet and Bernd got on the Univention stage to talk about “MySQL in Large Environments”.

By the third day, almost 100 machines were added to our production cloud thanks to various visitors, which ended per tradition, with beer at the Bayern Innovativ stand. It was a great event, and special thanks go to Pamela and Marcus for organising it all!

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