Meeting-20161119

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WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, November 19, 2016 starting at 3:00pm at IBM Squirrel Hill. Elections for the Board of Directors will be held.

Schedule for the Day

3:00pm - Doors open, set up
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts, election
3:30pm - Featured presentation
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.

Election

At this meeting, we will elect the WPLUG Board of Directors for 2016-2017.

Votes may be cast by mail or in person at the meeting. Your vote must be received before the polls close to be counted, so show up by 3:00pm to be sure you get to cast yours.

The ballot for this election has been e-mailed to the membership and is available as a PDF on the wiki. Blank ballots will also be available at the meeting. Detailed instructions for voting are given at Election Instructions.

Those who were nominated at the October 29, 2016 nominations meeting and have agreed to be candidates are (in alphabetical order):

  • Patrick Barron
  • Terry Golightly
  • Vance Kochenderfer
  • Joseph Prostko
  • Justin Smith

Candidate Statements

Patrick Barron

To be added.

Terry Golightly

To be added.

Vance Kochenderfer

To be added.

Joseph Prostko

To be added.

Justin Smith

To be added.

Speaker/Presentation

Speaker: Justin Smith

Topic: Monitoring with Nagios XI

Every computing device should (A) run certain software and (B) be configured a certain way. For instance, a mail server should (A) run mail software such as Postfix and (B) have enough CPU power, RAM, and hard disk space to meet users' needs. A monitoring server watches remote devices to make sure that these conditions are met.

Nagios Core is an open source program that is widely considered an industry standard for monitoring software because of its age and straightforward design. Nagios XI is a commercially-supported version of Nagios Core that includes additional features intended for use in enterprise environments.

This presentation will related experiences implementing Nagios XI in a small business infrastructure at MIM Software, Inc. and go over how you can use Nagios XI to monitor your personal infrastructure as well.

Meeting Minutes

To be added.

Meeting Staff

If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the categories below.

  • Host: Your name here
  • Co-Host: Your name here
  • Setup: Your name here, Your name here
  • Clean Up: Your name here, Your name here

Carpooling

  • Your name/location here
  • Your name/location here