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

[aaron]

On 2012/01/09, at 16:00 , Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 11:40 -0500, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
>> 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!
>
> Oh, man...  That would be nice and ALE Central.  Not sure I can make  
> the
> trek over to NW for this one this time.  :-P
>
> Did anyone work up a request list of talks we would like to see?
>
> Regards,
> Mike

I would be open to having Jeff present on OpenNMS at
this month's central meeting.  Any chance you could ask
him about the idea, JD? (cc)