SoCoSA.org Sonoma County System Administrators

Board meeting location varies; usually at a restaurant in Santa Rosa. Send email to steering@SoCoSA.org if you’re interested in attending.

Agenda

1. Mailing list setup; announcements to both lists or one list?


2. Location for next board meeting.


3. Anybody want to be webmaster?


4. Flyers
   
   
   
   • Anybody want to work on content? Chris said he’d do layout for a flyer if somebody else would write the copy.
   
   
   
   


5. Upcoming meetings
   
   
   
   • March: Mark’s SPAM talk
   
   
   • April: Decru/NetApp; still not confirmed
   
   

Anyone with an email address is well aware of the problem of spam, or unsolicited bulk email. Though there are many commercial applications available to help enterprises cope with spam, their cost usually puts them out of reach of all but the largest corporations.

Mark Linford of Santa Rosa Junior College will discuss how their campus used off-the-shelf computer components and SpamAssassin (a popular open-source spam prevention system) to deliver commercial-quality spam filtering at a fraction of the cost.

1. Roll Call
2. Approval of minutes from last meeting
3. Items carried over
   1. Flyers — Eric needs to write copy
   2. Associations with other groups
      1. SAGE — http://sage.org/groups/.
4. Upcoming meetings
   1. April: Disaster Recovery / ADIC?
   2. May: Nagios monitoring / IT Groundwork
   3. June: Storage Security / Decru
   4. July: ???
   5. August: ???
   6. September: ???
   7. October: ???

What if power went down or your facilities are flooded? How well can your organization handle and survive a disaster or business interruption? Best practices for business continuity and disaster recovery management are discussed in this talk.

Greg and Tina will be available to answer questions about Disaster Recovery, backup solutions and ADIC’s products during and after the presentation.

ADIC will be providing free pizza and soft drinks. There will be a free drawing for an iPod Nano and some other giveaways. Bring a business card for the raffle.

1. Roll Call


2. Meeting at O’Reilly


3. Building Membership / getting the word out


4. Items carried over:
   
   
   
   1. Flyers — Eric still needs to write copy
   
   
   2. Associations with other groups
      
      
      
      1. SAGE was approved; nothing’s happened there
      
      
      2. LOPSA’s starting to come together
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   


5. Upcoming meetings
   
   
   
   1. May: Nagios Monitoring / GroundWork
   
   
   2. June: Storage Security / Decru
   
   
   3. July: Patch Management
   
   
   4. August: ???
   
   
   5. September: ???
   
   

Nagios is an open source network monitoring tool; however, it has its bumps. We’ll talk about how to begin using Nagios in your monitoring environment and how to avoid some of the pitfalls during implementation. Also, we’ll go over 3rd party tools used to work alongside Nagios. We’ll also showcase some of the work Groundwork has done to enhance open source monitoring tools and how you can start using them immediately.

Free food and drink (probably pizza and soda) will be provided by GroundWork.

Previously working in the enterprise network engineering market, Taylor is now a senior developer at Groundwork Open Source Solutions, a provider of open source IT Operations Management software and services. He is in charge of many of the main web technologies being developed, including Guava. He has also developed Fruity and Status Viewer, enterprise level additions to the Nagios monitoring platform. Taylor’s primary focus is in building dynamic web applications leveraging Web 2.0 technologies.