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ANSMTUG is Back! Meeting August 19th @ Emory University

by doug on August 14, 2008

Atlanta Network and Systems Management Technical User Group

August Meeting Announcement

It’s been a while and the TUG is back! Come see William Bryant and his Emory University NOC team show us an interesting solution named Locate from Etelemetry. This product maps users to the IP addresses their workstations are using and the switch port to which they’re attached. And then administer network access by user name.

Emory University will host.

Etelemetry is sponsoring the food and drink for the meeting. Please help us out by RSVPing (see link below) by Monday, August 18th, if you intend to attend so we can provide a headcount to order the food and drink.

What is the ANSMTUG all about?

The Atlanta Network and Systems Management Technical User Group was created to foster collaboration between administrators, architects, engineers, and operators of applications and tools used to manage and monitor networks, systems, applications, services, and business activities.

Meeting Details

Cost: Free!
Date: Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Time: 6:00PM to 8:30(ish) PM
Host: Emory University
Location: 1762 Clifton Rd, NetCOM Dock door 8, Atlanta, GA 30329
- Once in driveway drive around back to NetCoM dock door 8

Map: Here

Parking: Free.

Refreshments: Food and drinks provided by Etelemetry.

Please RSVP by August 18, 2008:
RSVP

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OpenNMS Replacing and/or Complementing Netcool/OMNIbus & Impact

by doug on July 18, 2008

The weekly source for hot IT management news and gossip is the IT Management Podcast hosted by Cote’ of Redmonk and John M Willis of Zabovo. This week’s episode featured OpenNMS’s Tarus Balog.

Tarus dropped a few interesting tidbits throughout the conversation around Network Management about a couple very large IBM Tivoli Netcool clients that were moving from or complementing their existing architecture with OpenNMS. One was a large telecommunications company in Italy (Telecom Italia?) and another a very large mobile telecommunications company in Switzerland named Swisscom.

This led to some discussions around product scalability, licensing models, etc. Tarus didn’t have any specifics to share other than one requirement for OpenNMS to handle event storms of 2K-3K per second. He said they’re working through architecture approaches to ensure that their backend databases can continue to scale in ways similar to Netcool/OMNIbus’s in-memory database.

Tarus also mentioned capabilities in OpenNMS on par with what Netcool/Impact offers. I believe he called them Automations. It’d be neat to hear more on this and if they’ll have a library of data source interfaces/integrations similar to Netcool/Impact.

Everything that Tarus and the OpenNMS team does is ultimately driven back into the main code tree for all to take advantage of. The OpenNMS DevCamp kicks off in a week or two where the foundations for OpenNMS 2.0 will be worked on. This is taking place in my backyard down at GA Tech if I recall correctly.

Congrats to the OpenNMS team for your entrance into the telco space with these clients. I also really want to learn more about your Papa John’s deployment and if I heard glimpses of Business Service Management (BSM) there or if you were just using that as an example!

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