[ale] [ANNC] ALE-NW @ SPSU MTG. for Thurs., Jan. 12, 7:30pm

[Aaron Ruscetta]

The next ALE-NW at SPSU meeting is being held
Thursday,  Jan. 12th, 7:30pm (room TBD)
of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.


The feature presentation will be:
Network and Systems Management with OpenNMS
as presented by Jeff Gehlbach

Abstract:
-- Whether your organization's network has a dozen nodes
or twelve-thousand, it sucks** when some of those nodes go
down or have performance problems.  A whole discipline of
network and systems management has evolved to deal with
this problem, resulting in many software platforms both free
and proprietary aiming to solve it.  One of these, OpenNMS
(Open Network Management System), brings a 100% free
and Open Source software approach with massive scalability
as its key operational goal.  This talk will present a gentle
introduction to network management concepts along with
a tour of OpenNMS' architecture and, provided the stars
align, a live demo!

Bio:
-- Jeff Gehlbach discovered Linux in 1994 when a friend
shared with him a box of floppies containing Slackware 2.3,
and has been hooked ever since.  He has subsequently
worked as a network engineer, Solaris and Linux systems
admin, network management consultant, and network
management software developer among others.  Today
he pays the bills by helping organizations manage their
networks and systems using free software including
OpenNMS.

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For a campus map and a link to directions please see
<http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm>
or visit the ALE NW wiki page at
<http://tomshiro.org/twiki/view/ALE/AleNwOrg>
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
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ALE-NW at SPSU meetings are open events and we hope
you will join us!  Also remember that topic suggestions
and presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to
[ jdp (at) algoloma ]

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Disclaimer: **  "sucks" is official terminology of the
System Admins and Network Engineers Associaton
for accurately describing "annoyingly unpleasant"
technical difficulties.