[wellylug] Next Meeting

[Chris]

Hi everybody,

I you get to the meeting after 6pm or if the door is locked, give me 
call or txt on 022-3418-103 :D
See you guys there!!!!

Cheers
Christopher Tombleson

On 15/07/2013 10:54 a.m., Hugh Davenport wrote:
> 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
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