23 – 27 September was filled with events – from the upcoming OSMC, Puppet training course and ski trip to the OpenNebulaConf just past.
Eva counted 36 days to the OSMC with Jörg Sterlinksi’s presentation on ‘Monitoring at GISA’ as Vanessa started planning for Christmas and the annual NETWAYS ski trip
Silke followed by hawking off the last few places to our Puppet Fundamentals course in Nuremberg.
Lastly, Dirk reported live from the OpenNebulaConf in Berlin, with his impressions of the first and second day.
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Weekly Snap: Ldirectord, WMI monitoring & OpenNebula
16 – 20 September offered monitoring variety- with tips, presentations and the Monitorama in Berlin alongside an OpenNebula webinar and new tricks on Raspberry Pi.
On the event circuit, Bernd, Julian and Michael reported back from Monitorama EU and Eva counted 43 days to the OSMC 2013 with Erol Ülükmen’s presentation on “Monitoring IT Infrastructure with Opsi”
Christoph then showed how to monitor WMI with Perl on Windows, while Markus played with load balancing on Raspberry Pi using ldirectord,
Lastly, Christian uploaded the video of our second OpenNebula webinar to our website and Youtube channel and Nadja, our newest apprentice to the office introduced herself.
Weekly Snap: Logstash, Unattended Upgrades & Update Alternatives
9 – 13 September was packed with all sorts of tips from unattended upgrades and update-alternatives to Logstash developments and hosting tailored to start-ups.
Bernd gave us the latest developments in Logstash 1.2.x straight off his notes from his recent visit to PuppetConf and Georg introduced our special hosting services for start-ups.
For those who have been postponing the switch to Debian Wheezy, Stefan showed how to run an unattended upgrade and Michael how to run HP System Health Tools to monitor HP hardware on it.
Eric then shared a couple of sed commands to add spaces and line breaks for cleaner source code as Dirk demonstrated how the update-alternatives tool can be used for all sorts of software beyond Java.
Finally on events, Eva counted 50 days to the OSMC 2013 with Jean Gabès presentation on Shinken while Christian reminded interested participants to join our 2nd OpenNebula webinar.
Weekly Snap: Solr, gperftools & Rootkit Hunter
2 – 6 September entered autumn with plenty of hardware and sys admin tips, as well as a follow-up OpenNebula webinar.
Blerim began by recommending Apache Solr for indexing and showed how to combine it with Zookeeper to build a SolrCloud.
Georg then gave the lowdown on our all-inclusive Icinga/Nagios voice alert packages covering Starface VoIP appliance, software and onsite setup.
He continued on a USB wave, introducing Xsensior Lite the economical temperature and humidity USB-sensor as well as USB extensions using CAT5e cables.
In the meantime, Markus looked for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits with Rootkit Hunter and Gunnar offered his alternative profiler to Valgrind – gperftools.
Finally, Christian reminded interested participants to join our first OpenNebula webinar and consoled those who missed it with a repeat webinar on 11 September.
Weekly Snap: Upcoming Webinars, Bareos & NSClient++ tips
26 – 30 August ended the month with much activity from our training and events team, online shop and consulting corner plus a backup migration to boot.
On events, Eva counted 57 days to the OSMC 2013 with Pierre Wallemaqc’s presentation on “PMp – Another Approach to Configuring Nagios” as Christian announced the dates for our first round of NETWAYS webinar classes on OpenNebula, LConf and Puppet.
Christoph then lamented the failed funding attempt for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone on Indiegogo and continued the NSClient++ series with his contribution on NSClient++ with SSL.
In the meantime, Martin S migrated our backup systems from Bacula to Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced).
Finally, from our online shop, Georg introduced our “product trial” policy and latest product to hit our store shelves – the Wiesemann & Theis web thermograph.
