The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. ----- Next Meeting: Topic: Open Source IT Monitoring: Current State of the Art Speaker: Peter Mui, GroundWork Open Source Date/Time: July 19, 2007 7:00 pm Location: France Place Main Floor Conference Room Synopsis: An interactive discussion on the current state of open source monitoring tools: what's out there and what it does: Nagios, Cacti, RRDtool, Ganglia, Splunk, Zenoss, Hyperic, etc. We'll also discuss what we've learned through the BayLISA Monitoring SIG and its efforts to document and disseminate best practices in IT monitoring regardless of specific tools. Come prepared to discuss the current state of your monitoring (even if that's "nonexistent"), and with your questions and experiences to share with others. We'll gather feedback from the audience on what upcoming features they want to see in monitoring tools. About the Speaker: Peter Mui is the Manager of Open Source Strategy and Community at GroundWork Open Source, a San Francisco-based start up that unifies popular open source IT monitoring tools through a single UI into a comprehensive solution. He also runs the Monitoring SIG of BayLISA, the SF Bay Area chapter of Large Installation System Administrators. Prior to GroundWork Open Source, Peter has worked for the USENIX Association on conference promotion and was an editor and Manager of the International Division of O'Reilly & Associates (now O'Reilly Media.) Main Floor Conference Room France Place 3601 Minnesota Drive Bloomington, MN 55435 Tentative Meeting Schedule August 16, 2007 September 20, 2007 Directions: The France Place Building is at 3601 Minnesota Drive on the northeast corner of Hwy 494 and France Avenue in the Bloomington business district. From 494, go north on France Ave. to Minnesota Drive (the first streetlight north of 494). Take a right (east) onto Minnesota Drive and immediately take another right into the parking lot. The building sign is visible from 494 and shares a parking lot with Fuddruckers. France Place is a nine story brown brick building. - Parking Free parking is available in the main lot. - Web map is at: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?address=3601+minnesota+drive&city=bloomington&state=mn&zipcode=55435 For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA or TCSA-JOBS mailing lists, follow the TCSA or TCSA-JOBS link from: http://list.onvoy.com/ For any other information, please send email to: djb at umn.edu or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-260-1770 -- Dave Bianchi djb at umn.edu 651-260-1770