Meeting – April 12th, 2005

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Network Monitoring tools
6:00pm Doors open, registration
6:30pm Mug business
6:45pm Main presentation – Network Monitoring Tools by Mark Ramm

Mark has volunteered to do a presentation on System and Network monitoring tools. He
recently wrote an article for Linux Magazine about a tool called ZABBIX. He’ll be showing that
and other tools such as Nagios and MRTG. He’ll also cover the basics of SNMP.
8:15pm 2nd presentation – Beagle by Jorge Castro

[[http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/][Beagle]] is an experimental tool for indexing and
searching your data. With the use of the
Lucene.NET indexer, beagle can be queried fast for useful information.

Jorge has been playing with it, and he has offered to share what he’s learned about it.

8:45pm Meeting adjourns
9:00pm Dinner at a local establishment

After the meeting, everybody is invited to grab dinner at a local restaurant