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Áú»¢¶Ä²© Conference 2013 Agenda

Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel

September 6 (Day #1)

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Opening Speech. Áú»¢¶Ä²©: Where We Are.

The talk will be about the current state of Áú»¢¶Ä²©, progress we've made and future plans. I will also give an overview of the new feautures of Áú»¢¶Ä²© 2.2 and share my thoughts about 2.4.

Alexei Vladishev

Founder and CEO, Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA, Latvia

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Áú»¢¶Ä²© - Beyond the Norm!

The managing of environmental variables, including temperature, light and humidity, was once confined to associated research and practices. However, with increasing energy costs, plus a growing awareness of the need to manage and reduce humanity's environmental impact, the managing of environmental variables is becoming increasingly common in domestic and in particular business environments for companies keen on reducing costs and wishing to present a green image. Results of the research suggest that it is possible to use open source software and low cost hardware to develop a high performing, cost effective solution that reduces energy consumption and environmental impact. The research also suggested that the created solution was just ¡°the tip of the iceberg¡± and that you can, within reason, manage anything anywhere. This presents a whole host of exciting future possibilities.

Aidan John Venn

Director, Observ IT

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Perobbix+Áú»¢¶Ä²© DB Monitoring

Perobbix was developed as an extremely informative and reliable test for databases based on Perl. Running as a batch check, it is possible to connect to different database types (primarily for Oracle, but successfully used against MySQL and other databases as well), where a configuration file with multiple queries with different controls on time and conditions of execution. With no limitation for the amount of queries to be executed, one host profile can withhold multiple databases. Using MACROS at profile level and one template to each macro. Highly informative, full of timers, extremely helpful for monitoring and debugging databases and the data within. One can make use of different methods, timeout controls and so forth.

Julio Cesar Hegedus

Senior Linux Consultant, Yenlo BV

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SHORT TALK: Áú»¢¶Ä²© Brazil Community

In 2008 Brazil hadn't any community about Áú»¢¶Ä²©, and the software was not known to most people. What changed in 5 years? How a community initiated by one single man (like in Japan) made the difference? Currently this community has more than 700 members, many lectures at local events, articles in magazines and sites specialized in OpenSource products (or nearly) and building additional functions for Áú»¢¶Ä²©!

Andr¨¦ D¨¦o

UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Network Administrator

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A Complete Log Infrastructure with Áú»¢¶Ä²© Alerting

A large infrastructure needs flexible and powerful log analysis tools. Áú»¢¶Ä²© is the platform to handle alerting, but specific tools are used for the log infrastructure. It's a conceptual presentation, but practical examples are shown as well, for both the OS and applications. We hope you can use the concepts in your environment!

Pieter Baele

ICTRA (NMBS-Holding), Linux System Architect

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Going Down! Using Low Level Discoveries in Practice

With the introduction of Áú»¢¶Ä²© 2.0 a major new feature for the Áú»¢¶Ä²© monitoring system was released upon the world: Low Level Discovery (LLD) was born. LLD gives a Áú»¢¶Ä²© administrator incredible power over what items will be monitored in an automated fashion. The reduction of administrative overhead for the Áú»¢¶Ä²© administrators can be reduced dramatically when LLD is actively used. During this presentation we will explain how the LLD mechanism in Áú»¢¶Ä²© works and we'll show you some examples that demonstrate how you can create your own discoveries.

Raymond Kuiper

Competa IT, IT Infrastructure Specialist

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SHORT TALK: Keeping Áú»¢¶Ä²© Up to Date with Stunnel

How to keep your Áú»¢¶Ä²© configuration up to date at your customers in an easy way and how to make a business out of it ? When you have installed Áú»¢¶Ä²© to monitor your customers' infrastructure it just starts, organizations grow, change, have different problems and Áú»¢¶Ä²© needs to be adapted. How can you make sure you can do this for your customers in an easy and secure way with the minimum effort and grow a business model from it?

Patrik Uytterhoeven

Linux Consultant, Open-Future

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Lunch

Áú»¢¶Ä²© Ambassadorship

Real life example of an engineer turned pointy-haired-operations-boss (aka Áú»¢¶Ä²© ambassador-ship) since Áú»¢¶Ä²© 1.4. Being a Áú»¢¶Ä²© evangelist over the years I've run into multiple issues to get the software accepted - both in the engineering departments and management. The idea is to look into these issues and more importantly: to come up with some good answers to them. Engineers know Cacti/Nagios, Áú»¢¶Ä²© seems complex (and can be for new users!). Management wants uptime and looooves business metrics. Make a 'support triangle': business metrics on top, then cluster aggregates then individual machines (don't care about a burning webserver in a cluster with 100 machines, but care about the cluster CPU spiking suddenly). Training engineers and business end-users. A look into the future, how to integrate cmdb, racktables Áú»¢¶Ä²© etc.

Tobias van Hoogen

Head of IT Operations, Netco Technology b.v.

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SHORT TALK: When It Comes to Scalability

Áú»¢¶Ä²© performance degradation issues may be observed when the monitoring load becomes too high. In most cases, the bottleneck is the SQL database. Alternative Áú»¢¶Ä²© architecture is proposed to reach horizontal scalability with rather low cost. NoSQL solution for storing historical data is described.

Leonid Yulenets

Operations Tools Lead, RingCentral

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Migration to Áú»¢¶Ä²©

DBCs migration process to Áú»¢¶Ä²©. I want to share ideas, hacks and experiences from our Áú»¢¶Ä²© setup, mostly focused on how we have tried to transform the ¡°raw¡± standard Áú»¢¶Ä²© into a useful tool for our firm. How we tier the different Áú»¢¶Ä²© functions together with the power of screens and maps and how we handle the different user requirements.

Erik Skytthe

System Specialist, DBC A/S

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Coffee break

SHORT TALK: Zabby - Áú»¢¶Ä²© Agent Written in Python

Have you ever wondered "why doesn't this item work on this one host (out of hundreds)"? I did, several times, and I've dug through C code and written small C programs to confirm my hypotheses and I've patched and recompiled Áú»¢¶Ä²© agent to work on this and that host. Every time it was very time consuming because it required a skill I don't really have (low level programming), so I've rewritten Áú»¢¶Ä²© agent in a more friendly language ¡ª Python. So now, I can view the source code of an item on the host in question, call it from Python interpreter, override it and live happily ever after.

Evgeniy Petrov

Software Developer, i-Free

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End-user Experience Monitoring

It's always good to prevent downtime of our servers. Although, there are situations when everything is looking good on the backend, but users are experiencing some kind of problems - like GUI errors and applications with snail-like reflexes. It would be nice to get informed by Áú»¢¶Ä²© before being flushed away by user calls. This talk will be about user emulation, monitoring of interaction with our applications, and extracting some useful information out of it!

Jurijs Fedorenko

Senior Systems Administrator, ABLV Bank

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TECHNICAL SESSION: Which Database is Better for Áú»¢¶Ä²©? PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

In Áú»¢¶Ä²©, selecting the database system may not be the most important issue. However, if you need to deal with a large amount of monitoring data, the database performance could become a critical issue. We measure the performance of the new Áú»¢¶Ä²© 2.2 along with the latest version of MySQL and PostgreSQL, and present the results. Also we will show the tuning points of each database when used in Áú»¢¶Ä²©.

Yoshiharu MORI

Consultan, SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

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September 7 (Day #2)

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Áú»¢¶Ä²© to Monitoring Critical Environments of Brazilian Government - SERPRO

The talk will be about how Áú»¢¶Ä²© is used to monitoring critical environments in Brazil. SERPRO is a governmental organization with responsibility of looking after the critical environments for several Brazilian governmental organizations and the need to assure their perfect operation for all citizens of Brazil. Specific applications can require to work on platforms without native support of agents or other standard protocols, so we need to use a monitoring tool with support for integrating information from many sources.

Adail Horst

Network Analyst, SERPRO

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Integrated Dashboard Design

A complex infrastructure often calls for a simple, 'at a glance' overview of the system status. We are well aware of the power and flexibility of Áú»¢¶Ä²©, but can it play well with others? Of course it can. This presentation will show some of the ways in which the data provided by Áú»¢¶Ä²© can be shown alongside data obtained from other systems in a way that provides real business value, with minimal development effort (some Perl code and Twitter Bootstrap magic).

Lukasz Lipski

IT Operations Specialist

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SHORT TALK: Integrating the Áú»¢¶Ä²© Host Inventory with an External CMDB

Large companies use Asset Management tools, a lot of times proprietary, to keep facts about servers and equipment. This presentation shows a uni-directional way to store your assets in both Áú»¢¶Ä²© and Asset Management tools.

Pieter Baele

Linux System Architect, ICTRA (NMBS-Holding)

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Coffee break

Monitoring Outside the Box. External Factors in Your Datacenter.

Eltele uses Áú»¢¶Ä²© as a monitoring service for its customers. This includes infrastructure, servers and all the usual stuff. But in addition, we're doing security and environmental monitoring with specialized hardware, served with Áú»¢¶Ä²© frontend access to the customers, with personalized dashboards.

Alf Solli

Senior System Consultant, Eltele AS

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SHORT TALK: Áú»¢¶Ä²© Road - Drive from ICMP Pings to Enterprise Security

Presentation will show practical possibilities to use Áú»¢¶Ä²© in small devices and SoHo environment, discuss problems of embedding Áú»¢¶Ä²© into OpenWrt, show the possibility to monitor weather conditions and instruct how to cache results using apache. Next to this, there will be practical example of how to manage and monitor a couple of embedded devices. The last topic will be a proof of concept of using Áú»¢¶Ä²© as the central point for multi-criteria network analysis.

Lukas Macura

CESNET, z.s.p.o., VoIP and Network Specialist

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Lunch

Utilizing the ZBX Protocols

During the course of our presentation we will show how we are using software implementations of the Áú»¢¶Ä²© Agent & Áú»¢¶Ä²© Sender protocols to implement extra functionality or to compliment existing features in our ZBX environment. (Near) realtime graphing of agent items, building an API for application profiling/monitoring, ad-hoc querying of information, compliance scans and custom handling of service restarts in Windows are a few examples of what is possible and what we have currently implemented.

Henrik Johansen

Region Syddanmark, System Consultant

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The Highlights of Áú»¢¶Ä²© 2.2

The next version of Áú»¢¶Ä²© will be released with great new functionality like virtual machine monitoring, improved web scenarios and custom modules. In this talk Pavels will walk you through the most important features developed in Áú»¢¶Ä²© 2.2.

Pavels Jelisejevs

Lead frontend developer, Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA

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Coffee break

SHORT TALK: Using Áú»¢¶Ä²© as Access Control Engine

How Áú»¢¶Ä²© can be used as engine for an Access Control service, collecting various kind of logs, through its embedded items and external scripts and using a custom developed tool to correlate, show and search the flow of accesses.

Gabriele Armao

System Administrator, Systematica S.R.L.

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Why on Earth Was I Not Notified!?

"Why on earth was I not notified?!" ¡ª ever heard that question from a fellow worker? Setting up notifications can be a challenge; debugging them is cumbersome and requires a good understanding of how Áú»¢¶Ä²© works. Or were you ever asked for a list of people who would be notified on some event? That question is hard to answer, until the event really takes place. The Action Simulator retrofits the frontend with the capabilities necessary to solve such challenges, while keeping changes to a minimum.

Volker Fr?hlich

GNU/Linux Engineer, Medical University of Vienna

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Closing Speech

Alexei Vladishev

Founder and CEO, Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA

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