Here are a few followup items from the meeting:
The Raspberry Pi as a FM transmitter: http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter
Monitoring Tools - this turned into a segue on configuration management as well:
- Zenoss - http://zenoss.org
- Nagios - http://nagios.org
- xymon - http://xymon.org
- Ground Works Open Source (core) - http://gwos.com
- Zabbix - http://zabbix.com
- Spiceworks (there is a free edition) - http://spiceworks.com
- Big Sister - http://bigsister.ch
- MRTG - http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg
- Cacti - http://cacti.net
- Puppet - http://puppetlabs.com
- cfengine - http://cfengine.com (community edition)
- chef - http://www.opscode.com/chef/
- ansible - http://ansibleworks.com
- cdist - http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist
There was a short PXE discussion where I mentioned a very good writeup on using it with FreeBSD. The thing that made this a great resource is that it talks about the options and features that can be used as well as the actual booting portion. It also happens to be available as a HTML page or a PDF. According to the author, he used AsciiDoc to generate it and this is a great example of the type of documentation you can create with AsciiDoc
- HTML - http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pxe.html
- PDF - http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/pdf/pxe.pdf
Sysadmin Appreciation Day is Friday, July 26 and we have decided to meetup at Big Rig for 5:30.