Topic: would like contribute

[trazomtg]

Hi,

i am an "old" systems and network international consultant and technical directeur for a very big enterprise. I'm now retired and fave plenty of time.
i have skils in Tivoli, Nagios, MRTG ....
others skills in KVM, OpenVPN, Iptables, linux (Fedora, Debian ), Unix (AIX) ...
and some facilites in bash, python and prolog

i'd like to contribute to develop SMEServer.
if your are interested with my proposition please contact me and say how i can help.

Regards
T.

[guest22]

Hi trazomtg and welcome!

thank you for your offer and I think it will be very much welcomed. Can you please send an email to secretary@koozali.org so the secretary can contact you off-line and share information?

Thanks a heap!

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

Welcome Trazomtg,

You can even contact in the same time president@koozali.org. I will be pleased to discuss with you and see how you could be a fit in the dev team.

If you are not already familiar with our development procedures you can head to the wiki and search for the development category.

[trazomtg]

bonjour Monsieur,

je n'ai pas reçu de réponse au courriel que j'ai envoyé à l'adresse president@koozali.org.
pouvez-vous me dire si je peux vous aider et comment?

Cordialement
T.

[Stefano]

Please, english only here, thank you

[guest22]

It seems that our 'president' is non responsive, that could be a problem with such a generous offer. Maybe better follow up on the initial advise to mail secretary@koozali.org.

[Stefano]

AFAIK he's on vacations

[guest22]

So our 'president' has no auto responder or 'on leave' message with an alternative contact methos on his 'president' account? What a luxury he can afford himself. Just like a big boss of an enterprise with millions to spare and resources all over the place. Not that I ever saw a president act that way, and I have seen a few.


It shows that our on boarding process is worse then worse... I'm sure trazomtg would agree.

[Stefano]

Maybe you're right, but being polemical won't solve the problem and won't help anyone

[guest22]

Sure, hence our on boarding process is not present and overruling an advice is something we should not do. The problem can be solved to get in touch with trazomtg directly, apologise and get him on the right track asap. Not simply refer him to the wiki. trazomtg was very specific, we need to act accordingly.

[Stefano]

Indeed, so why are you writing here?

[guest22]

because trazomtg asked here nicely and is still in the dark. He deserves a fair response after almost 2 weeks of non resposiveness from Koozali.

[guest22]

While the whole world is able to talk, chat, video conf with each other, the whole world is able to communicate, community members here are being disabled. No PM's, no way of communicating directly. Like a dinosaur, just living in 2017.


Where is the community manager with all the promises? Where are the upgraded community eco-system upgrades like wiki etc. None of all that. And our president is on 'vacation'.....

[Stefano]

https://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,53131.msg275160.html#msg275160

[Stefano]

trazomtg, I'm the vice president
You can find me at szamboni@koozali.org

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

bonjour Monsieur,

je n'ai pas reçu de réponse au courriel que j'ai envoyé à l'adresse president@koozali.org.
pouvez-vous me dire si je peux vous aider et comment?

Cordialement
T.

I personnaly answered on june 13th ar 10:49 am american  east time. Please check your email box. I have acknowledgement of acceptance from your french provider Free.fr.

Jean-Philippe Pialasse
President.

[trazomtg]

hi,

i'm sorry, i didn't want to trigger such a polemic.

Best regards
T.

[trazomtg]

Hi,

i though about supervivion of SMEserver. Somebody tells that he is using Zabbix but it's not convenient with SMEserver. Too work for too small reseults.
I wonder whether a plugin Nagios or Tivoli would be much more effective.

it would be necessary first
      to collect information about all harware used in SMEserver
      to collect informations about all aplications working in SMEserver
      to have a network plan  ...etc...

then:
      to fix the thresholds alerts for network, sysyems and applications
      AND which would be a very PLUS:  correlations between all the alerts!!

then .... others ...

what do you think about that?
Best regards
T

[Daniel B.]

Hi,

i though about supervivion of SMEserver. Somebody tells that he is using Zabbix but it's not convenient with SMEserver. Too work for too small reseults.

That's not what I said. Zabbix is already integrated (I maintain agent and proxy at least) and gives great results. But it's not meant to monitor just a single host. The same applies to nagios or Tivoli. But you can of course help in having something better (by enhancing zabbix agent scripts, or maintaining a flexible templates for Zabbix for example)

[janet]

trazomtg

In case you have not seen it
https://wiki.contribs.org/Zabbix

[trazomtg]

hi,

thanks for your response.
i have a question:  what kind of alerts do you receive on your zabbix server when, for example, a router or a switch goes down if we imagine you have several LAN?

Best regards

[Daniel B.]

You can have anything you want. Zabbix is very flexible. But be ready to spend several full weeks (or months) on it if you want to really use it. I myself use pretty simple email + xmpp notifications, with an escalation on my ticket system if the problem is not acked in 30 min

[trazomtg]

do you have any corelation between the diferrent alerts? that's for deleting  redundancy and for executing automatics scripts?

[Daniel B.]

You can set trigger dependencies yes

[trazomtg]

ok!!

so, i was thiking to contribute in 2 domaines:
       improve supervision with zabbix
       improve SoftEther integration

what's your opinion?

Best regards
T

[Daniel B.]

That's good news. You can start playing and ask when you need info

[ReetP]

so, i was thiking to contribute in 2 domaines:
       improve supervision with zabbix
       improve SoftEther integration

Testing and adding the L2TPD/Ipsec contrib would be a big help as we can then dump PPTP.

The best thing about it is that it is supported on pretty well any mobile phone out of the box with no extra software required, and it needs nothing special on Koozali SME to work - just a few extra RPMs from repos and the config templates. And it does not require Windows (I do not run any Windows anywhere.....)

https://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=53021
https://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8890

The Libreswan RPM needs a thorough going over as well - I have done what I can but it needs a better coder than me to take a look at it and smooth out the wrinkles.

A panel in the server-manager for both would then be great.

[trazomtg]

i'm going to study the problems and i'll answer. OK?

[trazomtg]

i saw this post:
https://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,53184.msg0.html#new

and perhaps i can help about monitoring and nagios or other monitoring tool
what do you think

regards

[guest22]

I think you can think for yourself how you spend you free time. Nobody needs permission on that.

[guest22]

For now you have spent a lot of time on thinking and asking, not really contributing.

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

i saw this post:
https://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,53184.msg0.html#new

and perhaps i can help about monitoring and nagios or other monitoring tool
what do you think

regards

As said RequestedDeletion, you can do whatever you want of your free time. Contributing is first a matter of doing something useful for you or at least interesting intelectually for you.
if you want to update nagios contrib for SME9 you are free to go.

I would suggest first reading, the following as part of the job is already done:
- https://wiki.contribs.org/Nagios
- https://wiki.contribs.org/Nagios_NSCA
- https://wiki.contribs.org/Nagios_NRPE

Also you might start by learning how to set up a build server to work for SME, what I would like to exchange with you by mail, but I have no answer following my answer (2017-06-22 16:04) to your last mail (2017-06-22 16:04).

see for a start:
- https://wiki.contribs.org/Setting_up_RPM_Building_for_SME_Server
- https://wiki.contribs.org/Package_Modification
- https://wiki.contribs.org/Releasing_Contribs
- https://wiki.contribs.org/Rpm_build_example_using_cvs/mock
- https://wiki.contribs.org/Web_Application_RPM
- https://wiki.contribs.org/Category:Developer

[trazomtg]

hi,

i didn't work anymore and i ll be proud to help you , without insulted please
i think i can work on 2 domains:
    Zabbix but more Nagios
    SoftEther integration

what's your first choice?

don't forget i never worked on this products so i'll surely need advices (but not insults)
i do this because i love your product and because i want to perfectly know how it works and because it's intellectuatly satisfaisant

i live in Grenoble and i'd like to meet "Gieres"
Best regards
T

don't stress me please
regards

[guest22]

Without any stress, the open source community members do not ask for approval, they simply start.

[trazomtg]

ok

can you say at Gieres i'd like to see him please
regards

[trazomtg]

hello,

according to your advices and my feels, i'm going to work on Nagios.
i'm on holidays for several weeks so don't surprise if i don't work during this time.
Best Regards
T

ps:
je voudrais contacter "Gieres"

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

https://forums.contribs.org/index.php?action=profile;u=18305