Inside OpenNMS

Just getting back into the swing of things after showing off OpenNMS at SCaLE this past weekend. SCaLE is a great conference where there isn’t too much hype and you get to meet and see some of the finest and hardest working people from a few of the best open source projects.

This is our second showing at SCaLE and seeing the familiar faces from last year is already like seeing old friends. One friendly face that I haven’t seen at SCaLE is Ethan Galstad. So, since some of us open source network management “players” were able to make it and while showing off our projects we certainly don’t hesitate to claim our softwares each support Ethan’s hugely successful Nagios monitoring project, I thought I’d do a little marketing for Ethan. Here are some photos of me visiting the booths of Hyperic, Zenoss, and Groundwork with my “Nagios, only the NSA monitors more!” T-shirt. Ethan handed a few of these Ts out at our DevJam conference last year, and even though I wasn’t lucky enough to get one of those, I thought they were so cool that I ordered one from Ethan right away.

The Hyperic crew thought it was a riot, the Groundwork guys were jealous of the T, and the Zenoss guys just thought I was probably a nut case. They were all quite cool about it, actually.

Ethan, these photos are for you buddy:

The Hyperic crew were good sports and they put on a good face tolerating those “crazy OpenNMS guys.” Thanks to John, Stacey, and Chip.

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 There were actually Zenoss folks there, though no one seemed too interested in being in this photo (grin). I’m quite sure if Mark Hinkle had been nearby he would have jumped in the photo.

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 Peter was kind enough to let me snap this photo. He was working hard and was a good sport when I interrupted him.

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 WTH? We’ve been infiltrated. Hyperic marketing folks are everywhere! That’s Ben (RangerRick), Stacey (from Hyperic) and Jeff (jeffg). 

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