[wellylug] Next Meeting

[Hugh Davenport]

Just a reminder that this is tonight, 6pm.

2 talks, one from Neil about monitoring, and one from Michael about 
firewalling,

Unfortunately I'm unable to make it tonight, as seem to have come down 
with a
chest infection and possibly a ruptured ear drum, so keeping a quiet one 
atm.

I've got some people to help run it in my absence, be nice to them :D.

It is on level 3 Catalyst House, be there by 6pm, otherwise (hopefully) 
there will
be a note on the door with a number to call.

Have fun, will see you next time!

Cheers,

Hugh

On 2013-07-08 11:11, Hugh Davenport wrote:
> Another addition to the talk lineup.
> 
> Michael Lawson is the lead dev for a company called Sphirewall, which
> offers a kernel level firewall solution.
> 
> A bit about Michael.
> 
> Hailing from Christchurch, Germany and most recently Auckland, I am a
> developer with a thing for security, networking and high performance
> computing. Having spent the last 4 years working in both Christchurch
> and Munich Germany working for one of Europe's biggest online 
> advertising
> agency as a developer and sysadmin, I decided to take a leap of faith 
> and
> pursue my pet project "Sphirewall". Prior to my work for Adscale, I 
> have
> worked for Telstraclear, Eftpos NZ, Online communications and a few 
> other
> small companies.
> 
> My passion is creating software that is available for everyone without
> limitations or cost, and this is what fuelled my development of 
> Sphirewall.
> I hate companies that offer a half baked solution and open source it as 
> a
> marketing technique.
> 
> Talk
> Why I created yet another open source router/firewall and why it kicks 
> the
> socks of other options available in the same market. I will lightly go 
> into
> what I found was missing in other products, why this was missing and 
> how
> having these features changes how you manage your network.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Hugh
> 
> On 2013-07-08 10:27, Hugh Davenport wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> ****
>> tl;dr; come to catalyst house, level 3 next week on the 15th by 6pm.
>> Neil will talk about monitoring