RT: Request Tracker is a powerful trouble ticket and support system written entirely in perl.
Don will talk about cricket.
Cricket is a high performance, extremely flexible system for monitoring trends in time-series data. In other words: it makes lots of pretty graphs that make it easier to understand what’s been going on with your servers and/or network. It’s really good at getting data via SNMP, but if you can get some number out of something automatically you can get cricket to graph it.
Here’s an example graph; Sonoma State’s primary internet connection traffic over the past year:
Can you tell which week’s classes were in session?
Come learn from security expert Martin McKeay about the new convergence paradigm for networking and security. Cobia™ is a Unified Network Platform™ that delivers critical network and security functions through open, flexible software. Cobia operates on off-the-shelf hardware and takes advantage of the latest in virtualization capabilities. Learn about the growing Cobia community of users and open source contributors, and how your network can benefit from Cobia.
StillSecure will be providing free pizza and beverages.
Martin McKeay is a well known security industry expert, speaker, blogger and podcaster. He is a regular contributor to Computerworld, and he recently launched the security channel for PodTech. Mr. McKeay has 15 years of IT experience, including over 7 years of experience in network security. He holds both CISSP and GIAC-GSNA certifications. Martin can be contacted at mmckeay@stillsecure.com.
Rob will give a 1 hour overview of Rails including server setup, admin issues and templating.
What is Ruby on Rails? "Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern." What that means, basically, is that it lets programmers write applications without needing to worry too much about the boring details. Alternately, it's a a new, very popular way to create dynamic websites quickly and easily. Even if you're not a programmer you'll eventually want to deploy some cool new Rails application, and maybe even customize it a little for your site's needs.
Join Luke and Neal to hear about Xen, the exciting new technology that will make your life happier and more productive. (Don't believe anything they say to the contrary -- they're just old and cynical.)
Xen is a virtualization technology that offers nearly all the traditional advantages of virtualization with near-native speeds. Using Xen, administrators can partition users into separate virtual machines, developers can rapidly test network applications, home users can enjoy robust checkpoints and configuration management. Right now it's all hackerware, but the revolution is coming.
Food at 6pm; talk starts at 7pm.
Knoppix is a complete Linux distribution that runs directly from CD. One of its most popular uses is as a rescue and recovery CD since it includes a wide range of incredibly flexible tools to fix a computer that won’t boot.
In this talk Kyle will discuss a number of different system recovery scenarios and how to use Knoppix (or another live CD) to restore both Linux and Windows systems. Among the recovery scenarios, Kyle will cover:
Kyle is the author of Knoppix Hacks, a member of the SoCoSA board and NBLUG’s president.
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.
