OUCE 2015
The schedule for the OpenNMS User Conference (OUCE) has recently been announced and it contains the information of the talks being presented by Shadowcat staff, Mark, Ian and Tom.[1]
The team will be all presenting on the same day and are discussing different aspects of our new service ShadowNMS which was recently launched and uses OpenNMS as one of its underlying technologies.
The talks are all on Wednesday 30th September, at the main event in Fulder, Germany.
Mark starts our presentation trio with his talk The Shadow of NMS. According to his abstract:
Yeah though I walk through the Shadow of NMS I will not fear no ill What was the business case for building a service based on a popular network monitoring system. We will take a look at the ShadowNMS project and the advantages and pitfalls of using an established underlying technology. ShadowNMS is a Cloud-Based monitoring solution, when we decided to build the system we had a number of very difficult choices to make. One of these was the choice of a strong, and versatile underlying Network Monitoring Software.
This talk will cover the discussions and arguments that led to us basing a core product on an existing enterprise-grade solution. What we were offering, how that differed, and why we chose to use OpenNMS. We will look at the issues of working with community software and with communities. We will look at the interaction between Shadowcat Systems, the OpenNMS group and the OpenNMS Foundation and community.
We will also take a brief look at the software itself. What were we trying to achieve? How were we trying to achieve it? What were the obstacles? What part did OpenNMS play in this.
A small amount of time will be devoted to the schoolyard crush that Shadowcat has for communities and how we have found working with the OpenNMS people.
This is followed later in the day by Tom who will discuss Running with Scissors which is based around deploying OpenNMS and Ansible:
There are many ways to go wrong with a deployment of OpenNMS. You forget this package, you forget that config file, and eventually you end up with a working system. And then you need to do it again. Enter Ansible, meaning you only have to get it wrong once... A bit like running with Scissors.
The final Shadowcat talk is by Ian Norton who wants us to be Dancing on the Head of a Ping:
Building a scalable Software as a Service platform using Open Source software How do we build a scalable Software as a Service (SaaS) monitoring solution using Open Source software?
This talk will discuss the architecture of the Shadowcat ShadowNMS SaaS platform, how it was implemented and what fun we had along the way! Some of the things covered will be Ansible, OpenNMS, OpenNMS PRIS, Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl, Angular JS and Phantom JS*
/* Other buzzwords may be included, please check with your operator for a full list * - Buzzword bingo cards available on request - * Not really, but feel free to bring your own ;)/
If you are at the event we would love to say hello and share some stories about using OpenNMS and ShadowNMS.
If you are interested in using cloud-based network monitoring to continuously check service, giving assurance from your customers view, then feel free to contact Shadowcat.
Notes
[1] This is a slightly unusual way of announcing that the team from Castle Shadowcat will be speaking at the OUCE in Fulder, but we thought we’d copy the manner in which the OUCE chose to announce it, just in case it was a precedent for this event ;).
