[Wolves] nagios talk

[Kevanf1]

On 22/01/07, rob <the.lock.keeper at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> I know I'm late posting this, but as no-one else who attended has mentioned
> it...
>
> Well done to James for the talk last week.  I have to admit to some of it
> being hard to absorb - but that's because I'm not as familiar with networks
> as most of you guys.  However, I did get a good idea of how useful nagios is
> to administrators and engineers in the IT world.  It seems a very flexible
> and powerful warning tool (even if it's a bit tricky to configure initially).
>
> I mentioned something in the meeting about access to Windows servers using
> Linux clients (sorry for swearing!).  Apparently, this might help with
> hardware upgrade issues when people use Vista (there I go again - hope Wolves
> LUG doesn't have a swear box!).
>
> >Break the Hardware Upgrade Cycle with Win4Lin Windows Virtual Desktop
> >Server
> >by Jon Watson
> >http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9358
> >Jon shows you how to migrate to the Win4Lin virtual desktop server,
> >which
> >virtualizes Windows to Linux clients, and break the hardware upgrade
> >cycle.
>
> Anyway, I'm not sure if this is significant or whether this has been done
> before but here is the article that covers it.  Can anyone translate into
> plain English?
>
> Rob
>

Rob, I fear you have lost some mail mate :-(  I've seen one or two
mails from people saying how good that talk was.


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