In This GroundBreaker Issue:

• 6/13 ToolBox Session: Advanced Activities with Auto Discover and Auto Configurations and SNMP
• SourceForge Community Choice Awards—Vote for GWMCE by 6/20
• 6/25 Webcast: How to Champion a Commercial Open Source IT Management Solution to Executive Management
• 6/26 CIO Zone Virtual Event: Disruptive Technologies from Open Source to SaaS
• Stuck on something? Register for an available upcoming training class
• GroundWork thanks you for taking our survey – announcing the survey winners!
• Company News: GroundWork and the Higher Education vertical – Ending the year with honors

June 13th ToolBox Session:

Advanced Activities with Auto Discover, Auto Configuration and SNMP

Understand how to locate and identify systems using nmap and snmp. Configure your system to automatically set up monitoring of custom SNMP OIDs. And see how to import discovery data from Cacti, NeDi and other packages. This is a live webcast hosted at 8am PT/ 11am ET/ 4pm GMT

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SourceForge Community Choice Awards – Vote for GWMCE by June 20th

Vote for your favorite monitoring suite – GroundWork Monitor Community Edition – in SourceForge’s community choice awards. Your nomination counts!

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June 25th Webcast

How to Champion a Commercial Open Source IT Management Solution to Executive Management

Interested in how to champion a commercial open source IT management solution to executive management? If yes, join Audrey Rasmussen, analyst at Ptak, Noel and Associates along with Tara Spalding and Rich Trezza from GroundWork Open Source share insight on what Senior IT managers are experiencing today in their software purchasing, including outside influencers such as budget shifts, service level expectations, and heterogeneous environment orchestration which proves vital insight for selling in a new project that’s open source based.

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June 26th Virtual Event

CIO Zone Software Disruptions: From Open Source To SaaS

Visit GroundWork Open Source and dozens of other vendors at an all-day, online conference geared to answering today’s challenging questions which CIOs are asking now. Meet the GroundWork team virtually at our demo booth, or in the lounge!

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GroundWork University Upcoming Training Dates

• June 10-12: System Administrator Training Course held in San Francisco, CA
• July 7: Getting Started With GroundWork Monitor online course
• July 11: Getting Started With GroundWork Monitor online course

May's IT Monitoring Survey

Thank you very much for your exceptional support for our research. We had almost 300 completed surveys from around the world! Next month, we will update you on the latest trends which you’ve shared with us.

The winners are:

• First Place: Jenna Lutton, Remote DBA Experts
• Second Place: Chuck Morton, Navcom
• Third Place: Eric Bergen, Proven Scaling

Company News

GroundWork and Higher Education Synergies are Proven in our Customer Base

Over the last year, GroundWork has experienced much success in gaining new higher education customers for good reasons:

1. Most open source projects start at a university
2. Universities are quickly expanding their IT footprint and need a low cost, easy to control monitoring solution
3. Universities like health care and govenrment have very unique environments whereas only flexible and scalable monitoring tools can work in.
4. Importance of IT infrastructure management to support increased distance learning and remote student initiatives
5. The need to combine disparate open source IT management point solutions into a unified framework

Read more on monitoring best practices for higher education.