Hi all. I'm new here. From what I can tell, these forums just opened very recently. I'm liking what I've seen so far. I've never been big into posting on forums but I do participate on the technet forums occasionally, experts exchange and I used to be very active on AntiOnline.
I work for a medium sized company where I have the official title of "Network and Security Admin". However, I do just about everything else. Cisco/SonicWall Firewalls, BlueCoat SG Proxy, Barracuda Spam Firewall, Exchange 2010, Sharepoint, Windows Server 2003-2008 with Active Directory DS 2008 (whoo hoo Group Policy!). System Center Config Manager 2007, SQL/MySQL, etc. etc. I'm proficient with Linux with SuSE and Backtrack (Ubuntu) as my distros of choice. I support the switches for our Nortel VoIP solution but that is primarily taken care of by someone else.
Anyway, recently I've been really big into System Center Config Mgr, Group Policy and network monitoring.
I'd love to have a place to discuss various network monitoring solutions such as Icinga (Nagios fork), Cacti, NetDisco, NetDot, RackTables, Ossec and anything else along those lines. I'd be interested in seeing what everyone else uses and possibly integrating some of those ideas into my setup. I don't have much money to put into Solarwinds or etc. solutions which is why I've always leaned towards the Open Source stuff.
