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Áú»¢¶Ä²© Conference 2011 Agenda

Riga, Latvia, Tallink Hotel Riga

September 30 (Day #1)

Registration for Conference Delegates

Opening Speech.

Alexei Vladishev

Founder and CEO, Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA, Latvia

Video & presenations
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Áú»¢¶Ä²© in Safety Critical Environments

The speech is about a real world example of using Áú»¢¶Ä²© in safety critical environments like air traffic control and public safety.

G¨¹nther Sommer

Senior IT Architect, Business Unit Integration Projects, FREQUENTIS AG

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ABC of Áú»¢¶Ä²© Performance Tuning

I will share my experience of doing performance tuning for customer systems of any size. Speed of Áú»¢¶Ä²© operations has a number of common bottlenecks. I will tell how to identify those, also give you a clear step by step instructions and number of methods for bringing Áú»¢¶Ä²© performance to a much higher level. No, it is not about throwing money into new hardware!

Alexei Vladishev

Founder and CEO, Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA

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Coffee break

Zabcon, API

You're on a server trying to debug a performance issue, but all you have access to at the moment is a console, how do you view or alter Áú»¢¶Ä²©? Enter Zabcon, the Áú»¢¶Ä²© Console. Zabcon is designed to provide a console interface to Áú»¢¶Ä²© using the API. This talk will discuss how to install and use Zabcon to pull data and alter monitoring parameters.

Andrew Nelson

Red Hat (does not officially represent Red Hat at this conference), Consultant

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Lunch

Running Áú»¢¶Ä²© in a Hosted Setup, with Agents Reachable over the Internet

While Áú»¢¶Ä²© is suitable for very large deployments, many organisations use it for relatively small deployments. The steep learning curve of Áú»¢¶Ä²© doesn't always make it viable for these small organisations though, as a result of which they often lack completeness. This talk explores the technical implications of running Áú»¢¶Ä²© in a SaaS way, with active agents reporting live over the internet. We'll tell you about the advantages and drawbacks we face at Tribily (http://tribily.com) and the constraints we gave ourselves to make this possible. All of the technology is open source, so if you're interested you can use it for your own deployments.

Walter Heck

Founder and Tech Lead, Tribily.com

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Using Áú»¢¶Ä²© in a SaaS (Software as a Service) Environment

Using Áú»¢¶Ä²© in a SaaS environment has some unique challenges. While many system administrators are perfectly comfortable with manually performing functions in Áú»¢¶Ä²©, the SaaS administrator has to find ways to automate as much as possible. This presentation will show how we have overcome some of these challenges: using Puppet for agent and proxy installation; group naming tricks for template re-use; how to get Áú»¢¶Ä²© to call your phone; monitoring for Áú»¢¶Ä²© failure; and more. The presentation will also identify challenges that we think Áú»¢¶Ä²© needs to overcome to be the best choice for monitoring in a SaaS environment.

James Martin

Senior SaaS Systems Engineer, Learning Objects, Inc.

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The Hidden Power of Network Maps

Not all features in Áú»¢¶Ä²© are used to their full potential by all users. Do you know everything that is possible with network maps? Find it out in this talk.

Rihards Olups

Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA, Senior Consultant

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Let's report bugs and post patches

Áú»¢¶Ä²© has a number of big user communities and many of them participate in reporting bugs and proposing fixes. This presentation illustrates Áú»¢¶Ä²© bug reporting and patch posting flow, to encourage even novice users to participate. It also explains how these processes contribute to a nice ecological system for users and developers.

Takanori Suzuki

ZABBIX-JP, Miracle Linux Corp

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Coffee break

SUSE Studio to automate creation of appliances

If you like to simplify server or desktop images creation you most probably would be interested to use Suse Studio.

M¨¡ris Smilga

Novell representative in Latvija and Eesti, Novel

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Teaching Áú»¢¶Ä²©

Ok, so you have done a proof of concept with Áú»¢¶Ä²© within your company. Your C*O loves it and you've gotten approval to implement Áú»¢¶Ä²© as your companies' monitoring system. After weeks of hard work you've done it, you are now running Áú»¢¶Ä²© to monitor your environment. But this is just the start... You've already passed the Áú»¢¶Ä²© learning curve during the PoC so Áú»¢¶Ä²© feels like a breeze for you, but your co-workers are having quite some trouble grasping the concepts and you don't have time to sit by each and everyone of them to explain it all in great depth. After all, duty calls! In this talk we'll discuss how you can efficiently solve this problem. Please have your laptop handy with a recent versions of VirtualBox installed as this talk will have an interactive part as well.

Raymond Kuiper

Infrastructure Specialist, CompetaIT

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October 1 (Day #2)

Registration for Conference Delegates

Áú»¢¶Ä²© 2.0: Twice as Good

Áú»¢¶Ä²© 2.0 has been in the development for nearly two years. The feature list is impressive, and it's nearing completion. Gather and discover the goodness.

Rihards Olups

Senior Consultant, Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA

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Áú»¢¶Ä²© API Talk

This talk will show you a real-world example of using the Áú»¢¶Ä²© API inside a Drupal module to control Áú»¢¶Ä²© from Drupal. It will show you the basic workings of the php API wrapper as well as the basic working of a Drupal module and how to combine the two to make Áú»¢¶Ä²© administration a lot more easy. The module that we explain in this talk is an open source project and if you like it, you're welcome to contribute!

Walter Heck

Founder and Tech Lead, Tribily.com

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Coffee break

Insider Report: Áú»¢¶Ä²© Development Process

The talk is about the evolution of Áú»¢¶Ä²© development processes and lessons (well, there are many) learned. You'll get an overview of how we work currently and what direction we are going to. The new Áú»¢¶Ä²© release policy will be introduced as well, do not miss it!

Alexei Vladishev

Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA, Founder and CEO

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Miracle Story

MIRACLE LINUX provides Áú»¢¶Ä²© service for 3 years and our current business has been successful. We would like to share the 'success story' to collaborate with you for Áú»¢¶Ä²©. MIRACLE LINUX has real business knowledge which you may import immediately.

Minehiro Shibuya

Senior Vice President, Áú»¢¶Ä²© Division, Miracle Linux Corp

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Lunch

Extending Áú»¢¶Ä²© with Lua

We all know Áú»¢¶Ä²© rocks, but can we make it Rock and Roll? With Lua in the mix you can come a long ways towards that goal. Lua is a lightweight scripting language designed to be embedded into other programs, the Lua plugin for Áú»¢¶Ä²© does just this and provides a new item type, the Lua script. With Lua scripts inside Áú»¢¶Ä²© it is possible to run complex equations, including branching, based on your monitored data points.

Andrew Nelson

Consultant, Red Hat (does not officially represent Red Hat at this conference)

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Scaling Áú»¢¶Ä²© in the Enterprise

While Áú»¢¶Ä²© is a great monitoring system on its own, scaling it to handle 50,000+ hosts located in multiple data centers around the world while retaining high availability and elasticity can be difficult. This talk will focus on the challenges of bringing in Áú»¢¶Ä²© to the Enterprise and the ecosystem that was built around it to integrate with various Firm systems (Configuration data, Alerting, Reporting) to provide a flexible, highly available monitoring services for not just hosts, but middleware and applications as well.

Michael Wojcikiewicz

Technical Lead - Firm-Wide Plant Monitoring, Un-named Financial Company

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Why Don't You Start a Local Community

6 years ago, "Áú»¢¶Ä²©" term didn't exist as a result of Google search in Japan. Now, Áú»¢¶Ä²© has became famous and de facto standard of OSS monitoring software in Japan since I created ZABBIX-JP which is the Áú»¢¶Ä²© local community. I will talk about Áú»¢¶Ä²© history in Japan and what are the important things for local community.

Kodai Terashima

Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA, Support Engineer

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Coffee break

Unconventional Uses of Áú»¢¶Ä²©: Beyond Servers

Most installations of Áú»¢¶Ä²© monitor servers, switches, maybe a few UPS devices. Boring. After two days of serious monitoring topics, let's push it all aside and let's look at the alternative uses of Áú»¢¶Ä²©.

Rihards Olups

Senior Consultant, Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA

Video & presenations
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Closing Speech

Alexei Vladishev

Founder and CEO, Áú»¢¶Ä²© SIA

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