[wellylug] Next Meeting
Hugh Davenport
hugh at davenport.net.nz
Mon Jul 8 10:27:07 NZST 2013
Hi All,
Thank you heaps for those who came to the meeting last month. Shiv gave
a excellent talk
on rasberry pi's, which I am planning on purchasing some today (or RSN).
I'm happy to announce that I have scheduled the next technical meeting
for this month. It will
be on Monday 15th of July, at 6pm. The location is Level 3 Catalyst
House. The front doors
lock at 6pm, so best to come earlier, but there will be a number on the
wall to get someone
to come let you in.
Future meetings will be on the third Monday of every month and will
hopefully be food and
beverages supplied (this one should as well!).
We have one talk scheduled for this month, from Neil Ramsay, part 1 of a
series of 3.
Bio:
An agnostic computer enthusiast, Neil runs Windows, Mac, and Linux in
different contexts.
His passions are running services on Linux that are available to all of
the above operating systems, and working out how to configure these
services in a security concious way.
After spending far too long at university Neil escaped to industry.
He did a stint in an application support team, keeping systems running,
followed by working as a consultant in an IT security consultancy.
Topic:
Monitoring Part 1: Nagios and Cacti.
Do you know what you Linux servers are doing when you are not watching?
You should.
Nagios is a tool for monitoring hosts for availability and the services
running on them.
It can create dependencies between services, such as your web server and
database server, so that if your database goes down you don't get
alerted on your website too.
We will go through a basic setup and show you how it works.
Cacti is a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) client, which is
exceptional at creating graphs.
It is particularly useful for graphing CPU/RAM/Disk/Network usage.
We will go through using Cacti to extract SNMP data from some Linux
hosts, and briefly cover how Cacti can be used for your network
infrastructure, such as hardware switches/firewalls.
If anyone else is interested in talking this month, or next month, flick
me an email.
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tl;dr; come to catalyst house, level 3 next week on the 15th by 6pm.
Neil will talk about monitoring
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