We had a successful SysAdmin Day get together. Unfortunately I didn’t take many pictures.

Title: Sysadmin Appreciation Day Location: Big Rig Brew Pub Link out: Click here Description: Details on the what is it are available here: http://sysadminday.com/ In our case, it’s an excuse for a small party. Come out and there will be no fixing of computers, networks or security audits. Start Time: 17:30 Date: 2013-07-26

Here are a few followup items from the meeting: The Raspberry Pi as a FM transmitter: http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter Monitoring Tools - this turned into a segue on configuration management as well: Zenoss - http://zenoss.org Nagios - http://nagios.org xymon - http://xymon.org Ground Works Open Source (core) - http://gwos.com Zabbix - http://zabbix.com Spiceworks (there is a free edition) - http://spiceworks.com Big Sister - http://bigsister.ch MRTG - http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg Cacti - http://cacti.net Puppet - http://puppetlabs.com cfengine - http://cfengine.

Title: July Meeting 2013 Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata Link out: Click here Description: It is July already… Not a lot of topic info for this month, given that it is typically a quiet month for our meetings. I was considering the following items: Fun things to do with a Raspberry Pi - FM Radio transmitter Monitoring tools has come up as a side topic at OCLUG, so a list of basic ones comes to mind.

Title: June Meeting 2013 Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata Link out: Click here Description: Followup to the MythTV topic Designing a useful presentation - discussion, not a presentation Start Time: 19:00 Date: 20130620 End Time: 21:30