On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Zeev Halevi wrote: > A Java project it is indeed, and a very good one. I'm aware of the "bad reputation" > of Java in the Linux community and I hope to show a very useful Java project. > I think I can do a "Network Management 101" in about 30 minutes and then get > technical. > The project maintainer gave me permission to use a presentation that he made so you > can see the level. > http://www.trilug.org/talks/2002-09-opennms/OpenNMS_What_Is_It_Good_For.pdf
>From page 84 on, it gets technical and more interesting. Upto that point, it is all about configuarion and installation. On page 108 (out of 109), we are begin offered to pay several thousands of dollars for support. I would be interested indeed to hear a lecture which covers SNMP, covering various methods for monitoring networks, and then brings examples from openNMS. However, I agree with guy that showing what it can do (or showing its exact configuration, installation, and user interface) is not very interesting. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: guy keren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:03 PM > > To: Zeev Halevi > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Haifux] Proposed lecture > > > > > > > > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Zeev Halevi wrote: > > > > > I want to propose a lecture on a free software project > > called OpenNMS: > > > http://www.opennms.org > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennms/ > > > > > > It's an amazing "enterprise-grade" Network management > > framework that is > > > becoming a significant playerin the NMS market. > > > > > > We in Vyyo use it for our NMS solution and we look for a > > way to share > > > our experience with others. > > > > hear hear! (even if it _is_ a java project....) as long as > > you get into > > technical details (not only what it can do, but how it's done). > > > > note, however, that you're tackling an issue that was never > > discussed in > > haifux - NMS systems. as such, you should assume lack of background > > knowledge in this area by the listeners, so you'll have to talk about > > basic principles, assuming you don't want to be too shallow. > > we're quite > > happy to get lecture-serieses too ;) > > > > > I'll be in the lecture tomorrow so we can talk about it. > > > > this is haifux - there's no need to make formal discussions. > > you propose > > somehting, several people say "i want to hear that", you get > > the next slot > > assigned (or later if you need more time), and that's it. > > > > -- > > guy > > > > "For world domination - press 1, > > or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Orna. -- Orna Agmon http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~ladypine/ ICQ: 348759096 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
