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Open-Future is driven by a team of highly motivated Linux guru's.   Every team member has his or her expertise that is constantly updated by the eagerness to learn. Together we are the driving force behind the company Open-Future.   Supported by an extensive IT Platform and Labo, we are combining each person's strengths into the machine that is Open-Future. Thus, a team with a very broad range of competences is created. The expertise of each team member is passed on to the other team members by internal training.   And as we are an OPEN Source Company, our expertise is also passed on into the open world, or community with external trainings.   Open-Future is the Belgian competence center for everything covered by "Linux & Open Source".

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Puppet 2.6.x is now EOL

May 2, 2013 by ofadmin

The time has come for Puppet to say good-bye to Puppet 2.6.x. Puppet 2.6.x is now end of Life, as originally announced Jan 17, 2013.

Puppet 2.6.0 first launched July 20, 2010. Since that time, they had two major versions of Puppet, 2.7.x and the semantically versioned Puppet 3 series.

Puppet 2.7.x is on security-fix only already, but no end of life for it has been announced. Puppet 3 is being actively developed with Puppet 3.2 currently in a release candidate phase.

There is an upgrading guide available:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/upgrading.html and as always, help is available in IRC, on mailing lists, and ask.puppetlabs.com

 

Zabbix Meeting Belgium (17th of April)

March 5, 2013 by ofadmin

2013-04-17 09:00

Zabbix Belgium Meeting will take place on April 17, 2013 at 10:00 in the conference hall of the Embassy of Latvia at Avenue des Arts 23, Brussels, Belgium.

The event is intended for company CIOs and IT infrastructure managers and will gather existing and potential customers of Zabbix Company from Belgium, including Zabbix partners.

The meeting is free of charge and will consist of several presentations delivered by the Zabbix team and partners of Zabbix. As the main focus of this event is how to decrease hardware and software downtimes to increase company revenues, the following topics will be covered:

  • how hardware and software downtimes influence the bottom line and image of a company
  • how company can efficiently decrease IT downtimes with minimum investments by constantly monitoring business applications and IT infrastructure
  • benefits of using Zabbix Monitoring Solution
  • introduction to Zabbix services
  • success stories

Between the presentation sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to arrange personal meetings with representatives of Zabbix Company.

To attend this meeting, please register online. We are looking forward to you joining us at this event!

All presentations will be delivered in English.

Modified Zarafa Disclaimer Hook

December 7, 2012 by ofadmin

Intro As from Zarafa 7.1 python scripting hook functionality was added to both the Zarafa dagent and the Zarafa spooler. This allows system administrators and developers to extend the functionality of the Zarafa dagent and spooler with personal scripts to manipulate the content on sending and delivery. Some example hooks are provided by Zarafa:
  • movetopublic.py – This script moves incoming messages to a folder in the public store.
  • BMP2PNG.py – This scripts converts BMP attachments to PNG in incoming mails.
  • Disclaimer.py – This script adds a disclaimer to outgoing mails.
The disclaimer hook checks the /etc/zarafa/disclaimers folder for the following files (disclaimer content):
  • default.txt – plain text version of the default disclaimer
  • default.html – HTML version of the default disclaimer
  • <companyname>.txt – plain text version of the disclaimer of a company when running in multi-tenancy mode
  • <companyname>.html – plain text version of the disclaimer of a company when running in multi-tenancy mode
A client of ours only wanted the disclaimer to be sent for emails that go to external contacts. To establish this we modified the disclaimer hook.

Belgium Puppet Fundamentals Training

October 29, 2012 by ofadmin

2012-12-11 09:00
2012-12-13 17:00
Open-Future invites  you at our first in-house "Puppet Fundamentals Training". This training will be given by our certified puppet specialist. This training course replaces the former Puppet Master course. The class teaches students a best practice approach to managing their infrastructure using.   Puppet IT automation software, including:
  • Developing modules/classes on a system that represent target systems.
  • Using Puppet Apply to test and iterate modules.
  • Placing modules on the Puppet Master.
  • Declaring appropriate classes in node definitions.
  • Triggering a Puppet run using the Live Management GUI
  • Collecting and analyzing results in the Enterprise Console
  Prerequisites: This course has no prerequisites, but to complete the course successfully attendees need to have at least the equivalent experience of a junior Unix/Linux administrator.   Course Objectives/Goals: After completing this course, students will be able to deploy basic system configurations using Puppet IT Automation software in a Master/Client configuration. This course is also a preparation for the 'Puppet Professional Certification' exam.   Target Audience (Who should attend): The target audience for this course includes newer members at an organization already using Puppet, or experienced sysadmins wanting to bring Puppet into their team as a new solution.
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