Manchester/2012-05-12

MRTG + FreedomBox

• Talks: MRTG + FreedomBox
• Speakers: Daniel Botting + Michael Dorrington
• Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
• Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN.
  • "(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)"
  • http://madlab.org.uk/
• Date: Saturday, 12th May 2012 (Not the 3rd Tuesday of the month)
• Start time: 14:00
• Finish time: 17:00

Post-Event Reports

Mike's

• MRTG sensors (although the consensus was not using MRTG and instead use RRDs via some other means)
  • http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/mrtgutils-sensors

• RRDtool
  • http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/
  • http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/tut/rrdtutorial.en.html

• collectd snmp plugin
  • http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Snmp
  • http://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd-snmp.5.shtml
  • Example config:
    • /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/examples/snmp-data.conf
    • http://git.verplant.org/?p=collectd.git;a=blob;hb=master;f=contrib/snmp-data.conf

Details

This MFS May 2012 meeting will be a joint event with MANLUG.

Daniel Bottling will do a talk entitled 'Introduction to MRTG' and Michael Dorrington will be demo'ing MRTG as well and other points of interest on the (proto-)FreedomBox. They are supporting each other's presentation.

MRTG is a tool to graph network traffic and much more.

The FreedomBox is about combining low powered unobtrusive hardware, so that you have it powered on in your home 24/7, and Free Software with an easy to use interface, to achieve control of your computing, data and communication.

Speakers

Daniel Bottling is a GNU/Linux enthusiast and a key organiser of MANLUG.

Michael Dorrington has been Free Software user and supporter since the last millennium. Michael has worked with FreedomBox Foundation team on the FreedomBox. FSF member #9429

Transport

Parking

There are paid parking lots around the venue, the light blue P in this OpenStreetMap centred on Madlab. A lot of them, perhaps all, are are owned by NCP. If you can't decide otherwise then park in Manchester Arndale.

Public Transport

Manchester Victoria (MCV) train station, Shudehill tram station and Manchester Piccadilly bus station are all fairly close to Madlab, see OpenStreetMap centred on Madlab. Manchester Piccadilly (MAN) train station and Manchester Central Coach Station are not too far either.

Lightning Talks

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please send an email to fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org.

1. Your name here!