Published on
July 27, 2007 in
General.
You voted for Nagios in the SourceForge 2007 Community Choice Awards and now its my turn to vote for you. The Sysadmin of the Year (SAOTY) 2007 contest is now open and accepting nominations. Get someone to nominate you and tell the world about how exactly you manufacture and wield the elusive pixie dust that keeps things running smoothly.
Prizes will be awarded at five levels:
- Grand Prize – One winner will receive a Gibson Explorer guitar, an Apple MacBook Pro, a trip to the LISA Conference in Dallas (November 11-16, 2007), and a Splunk Enterprise license
- Runners-Up – Three individuals will receive an Apple iPhone
- Honorable Mentions – Ten individuals will receive a case of Red Bull Energy Drink
- Nominees – The first 2500 nominees will receive a free SysAdmin of the Year t-shirt
More information the SAOTY contest (as well as profiles of last year’s winners) can be found at http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/. Good luck!
Nagios is mentioned in a July 26th, 2007 Tectonic article titled “Open source telecoms partnership in KZN”. It sounds like Nagios is being used by BizCall KZN, a new provider of IP telephony and VoIP services in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Source: Tectonic, July 26th, 2007 Article.
Cameron Laird and Wojciech Kocjan wrote an article on July 17, 2007 for IBM developerWorks titled “Leverage Nagios with plug-ins you write“. The article covers basic installation and configuration of Nagios, along with info on how to write plugins in Python and Tcl. Source: IBM, July 17th, 2007 Article.
Nagios is one of the 2007 SourceForge Community Choice Awards finalists in the ‘Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins‘ cateogy! Thanks to everyone who nominated it as one of their favorite apps. 
Now that the nomination process is complete, the voting begins to determine the Community Choice Award winners in each category. Vote for Nagios and your other favorite OSS apps by visiting
http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/vote.php.
