Hot on the heels of this years North American OpenNMS developers conference, we will be running a series of UK workshops to share the buzz around OpenNMS with the local UK user community. Don’t just expect to be lectured to. This will be a participative event. These workshops will stretch your understanding of Operational Support Systems and help you to begin thinking through how you can adapt OpenNMS to address some of the key problems in Network and Service Management.
Same Workshop – Five locations
The same workshop will run at four locations around the UK and in Dublin, Ireland.
The workshops will run from 09.30 until around 17.00 on each day.
Cost
Standard rate:
£150 per participant + VAT
(An early bird discount of 10% applies if you book by 13th June. Further reductions are available if you book more than one participant. See the booking tabs opposite.)
Discounted rates:
£90 + VAT for not-for-profits or Academic institutions.
£75 + VAT for existing OpenNMS support customers.
Presenters / Facilitators:
Markus Neumann – OpenNMS Europe
Markus has had extensive experience deploying OpenNMS in customers in Germany and around Europe. He is also a committer to the OpenNMS project.
Dr Craig Gallen Eng.D, MBA, MIET C.Eng – OpenNMS UK
Craig researched his doctorate looking at the use of Open Source within the operational support environment. He has had extensive experience in designing and integrating full suits of Operational Support Systems against a variety of network technologies. He is a committer to the OpenNMS project.
London Workshop Monday 30 June 2014
Location: Room 2A University of London Union, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HY (http://www.ulumeetingrooms.co.uk)
Birmingham Tuesday 1st July 2014
IET Aston Court, 80 Cambridge Street, Birmingham, B1 2NP, (http://austincourt.theiet.org/)
Rochdale (near Manchester) Wednesday 2nd July 2014
Zen Interent Ltd. Sandbrook Park, Sandbrook Way, Rochdale, OL11 1RY, (http://www.zen.co.uk/contact-us)
Dublin Thursday 3rd July 2014
LOCATION CHANGED FROM TCD TO AIRSPEED’S OFFICES
Airspeed,15 Magna Drive Magna Business Park City West Dublin 24 (Map: http://airspeed.ie/contact-us)
Glasgow Friday 4th July 2014
IET Glasgow: Teacher Building, 14 St Enoch Square, Glasgow, G1 4DB, (http://teacherbuilding.theiet.org/)
Workshop Overview
If you last looked at OpenNMS a few years ago, you might be surprised to learn how it has grown into a truly scalable operational support system which is now used in some of the most demanding environments around the world – a fact which is truly remarkable for a ‘free’ Open source product. The OpenNMS we all know and love is rapidly developing new features and capabilities, so much so that it is hard for the average user to keep up. We wanted to give you the chance to see for yourself the new or nearly complete features and help you think through how you could use them in your operations environment.
Although OpenNMS can be deployed ‘out of the box’ very quickly, customising it to best compliment your business processes is a more demanding task. In this workshop we want to introduce ‘Newbies’ to the latest capabilities of OpenNMS and also help ‘Old Hands’ to think of new ways of using their system. We are trying to pitch the workshop at a level suitable for evaluators, managers, end users and systems administrators in order to encourage holistic thinking about how the business can best be served by an OpenNMS deployment.
Using a representative scenario of launching a new managed service, we will walk through the steps a business might go through to begin using OpenNMS for the first time to manage the new service. By doing so we hope to cover the following topics;
The Business – How OpenNMS can improve customer satisfaction and reduce the bottom line. Looking at the key benefits of OpenNMS and what it means for an organisation to effectively deploy a system.
Key New Features – Looking at some of the latest features in OpenNMS 12.6 and helping you think through how they can be deployed against a new service.
Unfinished works – Looking to the future, and hot on the heels of this years OpenNMS developers conference, we will give UK users some insights into the OpenNMS roadmap looking at new features just introduced or nearing feature completion.