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

[Michael H. Warfield]

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

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