As you can see from Peter's blog postings below, GroundWork hosted the Cacti project team at GroundWork HQ for their annual meeting.
While here, the Cacti guys were gracious enough to submit to an interview in our cool Cacti-decorated lounge area at LinuxWorld.
To learn more about Cacti from the developers themselves, ...
Richard Bejtlich, who I know from my days at USENIX (he often teaches at their conferences), has a very interesting blog entry (well, at least to me) entitled "What the Feds Should Do" where he discusses how the Federal Government should implement digital security. Of particular interest is point ...
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 ...
This article does a great job (IMO) of explaining SNMP to a newbie:
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3660916
Wish I'd had this when I started working here, the descriptions of acronyms are particularly useful. Looks like a series: the author writes: " In future articles we'll dig into how to use SNMP with Linux-based network management ...
The Network Security Toolkit people include Groundwork Fruity in their toolkit. Funny: we don't think of monitoring as a security function, at least in the traditional sense, and have never considered positioning our open source monitoring products that way. Should we?
http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/index.html
From their site:
"The main intent of developing this ...
Our CEO, Ranga Rangachari, made me aware of the following web page where Stanford Linear Accelerator lists the IT Monitoring (mostly, Network Monitoring) tools they use. It's a great summary page for anyone looking to get a start in this area, but I don't see any evaluation or assessment:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html ...
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