Pimp my Mail Notifications

Notifications are important if you do monitoring. I never liked mail notifications from monitoring systems where all the information is hidden in non-sense text. Otherwise notifications never look the same, so I’m always forced to read all that useless crap again and again. This is an approach to improve the usability of monitoring notifications using more a table pattern which helps me to recognize useful information much quicker.

Probably a lot of E-Mail guys will hate me for the reason I’m using HTML in mails. The notifications work so much better for me so I don’t care. I’ve used just inline CSS and there is no JavaScript involved. All the things are in the mail and there are no external resources loaded. Here is how I work with OpenNMS mail notifications.

Material Workshop OpenNMS im Büro 2.0

Am 30.03.2015 haben wir im Büro 2.0 in Berlin einen Workshop mit OpenNMS durchgeführt. Die Zielgruppe waren NeueinsteigerInnen und alle die Interesse an Monitoring mit freier Software haben. Es wurden Installationszenarien, das Provisioning und beispielhaft diverse Monitore für Anwendungen und Dienste eingerichtet.

Die Slides sind unter einer freien CC-BY 3.0 lizenziert und stehen auf GitHub zur Verfügung.

Kickstart Workshop OpenNMS im Büro 2.0

Für diejenigen, die kurzentschlossen sind – hier eine letzte Erinnerung für einen kostenfreien Kickstart workshop zu OpenNMS. Die Registrierung und Anfahrt findet ihr unter:

• Büro 2.0 Veranstaltung
• Registrierung bei Meetup
• Anfahrt

Conferences OUCE 2015 and 31c3

I spent some time with preparing the OUCE 2015 and we use the free an open-source software frab as conference management system. I do most of my server automation with Chef and my playground is running with Vagrant. For this reason I decided to spend some time an built a Vagrant / Chef environment and contributed it back to the frab project. This guys do a really good job and IMHO it is the best free conference management system you can get. If you want to play with it feel free and give it a try and contribute.

OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2014

We are right in the middle of our 5th season of the year – DevJam. It is always a lot of fun spending one week with people from all over the world on the campus of the University of Minnesota. I’ve put on my personal agenda for this week, spending time with the folks working on the way how we want to document our project. I try also to gather the project ideas and where they contribute the code to the project. Currently i try to get some updates from the progress through the opennms.eu page. We have the following topics on the list:

OUCE 2014 Review

We have finished our 6th OpenNMS User Conference Europe. It was the first time we made a conference outside of Germany. We started with the first conference in 2009 when I worked at NETHINKS and begun with OpenNMS professional services. For the 3rd and 4th conference we decided to move the venue closer to the people organizing the conference and the IT center in Fulda was a really good place. In 2013 NETHINKS and the OpenNMS Foundation Europe worked together to move the organization of the conference to the community at the University of Applied Science in Fulda.