GroundWork Open Source Announces Free System and Network Management Online Training Sessions October 21 and 22

GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (GWOS http://www.gwos.com), the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, today announced that it will be hosting GWOS barCAMP Wednesday October 21, and Thursday, October 22. The barCAMP consists of several live, online training sessions that cover GWOS’s new flex pricing, writing plugins for GroundWork Monitor, GWOS in the Cloud and a full introduction to www.MonitoringForge.org.

To register or join a session:

1. Clink on the ‘Join Now’ link below when the session commences

2. Sign in using the password b1rCAMP

3. Participate by asking questions or providing your experiences with the others.

Read more about the purpose and presentation opportunity with GWOS barCAMP.

barCAMP Schedule – available at http://www.gwos.com/wiki

Wednesday, 10/21

6 a.m. PT (9 a.m. ET): Walkthrough on Flex Pricing - Join Now
7 a.m. PT (10 a.m. ET): Custom Performance Graphs in Status Viewer & Dashboards - Join Now
8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET): MonitoringForge.org Intro - Join Now
9 a.m. PT (12 p.m. ET): Writing Plugins, Commands and Services in GroundWork Monitor - Join Now
10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET): GWOS in the Cloud - Join Now
11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET): How to Install LDAP & Active Directory - Join Now
12 p.m. PT (3 p.m. ET): Approaches to Monitoring - Join Now
1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET): Find Out When Something Goes Wrong - Setting up Notifications - Join Now

Thursday, 10/22

7 a.m. PT (10 a.m. ET): Dependencies - Doing it Automatically - Join Now
8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET): Customizing the Status Viewer - Join Now
9 a.m. PT (12 p.m. ET): WMI - What, Why and How - Join Now
10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET): Interfacing GWM with a CMDB - Join Now
11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET): Creating a Portlet and Deploying it Inside GroundWork Monitor - Join Now
12 p.m. PT (3 p.m. ET): Event Console Review - Join Now
1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET): Distributed Checks demonstration - Join Now

About GroundWork Open Source (GWOS)

San Francisco-based GWOS ( http://www.gwos.com) is the market leader in commercial open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class network, system and application management solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions.

GWOS's best of breed approach gives customers the flexibility to use diverse open source and proprietary technologies together under a unified interface, allowing users to leverage the advantages of open source while simultaneously preserving existing investments in legacy management tools. GroundWork Monitor Enterprise Edition powers organizations like Alexza Pharmaceuticals, National Geographic Society, Crocs, National Australia Bank, Siemens, Travel Click and World Bank, and is available to monitor any environment up to 100 devices for $49 USD per year.