SoCal Nagios UG

Bouncing around southern California with fellow LUG hoppers Charles Wyble (LiLAX) and David Kaiser (SoCal Linux), I’ve met lots of other Nagios aficionados and figured it was time to create a real life SoCal Nagios group.

Since several of us already collaborate together on various projects, we thought it made sense to invite other LUG members to meet up once in a while to share ways on how Nagios can help wrangle complicated networks. Ideally, our group would bring into conversation ASP/ISP owners, programmers, network / systems engineers, resellers, and vendors, some of which would (hopefully!) collaborate and release various tools back into the open source community.

We’re still kicking around ideas for our meetings. Some of those thus far include:

• ways to scale Nagios for thousands of checks
• Nagios visualization tools
• Nagios front end solutions
• integrating Nagios with other F/OSS tools
• plugins for vendor appliances
• checking Windows networks on the cheap
• cool ways to event handle problems
• Nagios internals (config file stuff no one touches unless they need to trick it out for custom integrations)
• host and service dependency strategies
• Nagios in Cisco environments
• SNMP madness!

Those interested in joining (via LinkedIn) can do so here

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/41719/0ADF9753CCB3

I’m working on the site and listserv, all of which can be made available to others who might want to cookie cut what we have.