Cacti & Ganglia at the Monitoring SIG Banquet

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

At the GroundWork-hosted Monitoring SIG Banquet, the Ganglia Project Team talked to the Cacti Project Team about about enhancing support for using Cacti as a front end user interface for Ganglia –- very exciting!

November 2007: Another Successful SIG

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

With Lois presenting with the fedora and LED devil horns, how could it not be great? Nevertheless, Lois went through the trials and tribulations she went through to get Nagios running, offering sage advice on the traps and pitfalls of building from source. Lois even built Apache from ...

Monitoring SIG discussion on 10/10/07 was lively!

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

So, what happened at the October 10 Monitoring SIG? Well, nothing dramatic, really. No divorces of celebrities, marriages of movie stars, or brawls between sysadmins. There were, however, a good group of core participants and a few new faces. A deep discussion was generated by Terry Ewing's presentation of what he ...

Overheard at the April 2007 Monitoring SIG - I

Friday, April 13th, 2007

In some ways, the most interesting aspect of the BayLISA Monitoring SIG that's hosted here at GroundWork is the post-meeting socializing: while the meetings formally end at around 8:30 PM people typically hang around for a couple of hours after that. For example: if you think _you_ have a distributed environment ...

Overheard at the April 2007 Monitoring SIG - II

Friday, April 13th, 2007

I'm sure there are lots of examples of computing environments with "bursty" demand. For example, I once attened a talk by someone from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) about the unique demands of capturing and logging data from atomic research experiments: the event of interest (typically, a particle collision ...

Quote of the SIG

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

We hosted the BayLISA Monitoring SIG here at GroundWork last night: Craig Thomas presented on COSMOS, the Eclipse project to standardize System and Network Management interfaces. The quote of the evening (at least, from my perspective as the de facto host): "I was planning on leaving early but it was ...