The CTAP7 IT Workshop Series: FREE Ideas, Collaboration and Human Networking
We've had two sell out sessions this year... one featuring Apple's Leopard server featuring the Mac
server's ability to work with Windows, virtualizing and portable accounts on Macs and PCs,
and coming up shortly (currently sold out) with Dell, featuring their diagnostic hotshots, the TIGER team,
new (and unreleased) hardware and even a printer giveaway.
In the fall of 2008 we'll take a look at some of the newest and most affordable tools on the Ed Tech horizon.
Presenters will include software engineers, local IT leaders and users.
Presenting: Untangle (www.untangle.com)
A FREE network gateway software or hardware appliance featuring: Spam Blocker, Web Filter and Protocol Control
as well as Security (Virus Blocker, Spyware Blocker, Phish Blocker and Intrusion Prevention and Remote Access
(Remote Access Portal and OpenVPN).
Also presenting: Edubuntu Thin Client (presented by Le Grand High School) Andrew Schwab and Danny Silva will
setup a live Edubuntu thin client lab for you to see and use in a "hands on" presentation (Edubuntu.org). And more
to be announced soon!
This event will be FREE and includes lunch.
The registration link will be up soon.
Bandwidth Planner
The Bandwidth Planner aims to help school principals and district CTOs plan their bandwidth needs, demystify bandwidth for non-technical educators, and bridge the knowledge gap between educators and technologists to improve strategic technology planning. More specifically, the Planner:
- Defines bandwidth and helps explain the relationship between bandwidth, instructional applications that utilize technology, and the quality of service for those applications that can be supported at certain data speeds.
- Provides common language and understanding about bandwidth and provisioning to foster a conversation about strategic planning, implementation, and long-term maintenance of a critical component of an institution's technology infrastructure.
- Provides access to relevant resources to help support strategic bandwidth planning at the school or district level.
UNTANGLE: The Open Source Network Gateway
The best open source projects, integrated and made easier for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more
- Commercial-grade open source alternative to SonicWALL and WatchGuard
- 14 integrated apps - use one or all of them
- Runs on off-the-shelf hardware
See Untangle LIVE DEMO at the CTAP 7 OPEN SOURCE Workshop in late April. (contact Jon Corippo for more info)
FREE Remote Control of Windows and Linux Computer Labs !
iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!
In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free! This means you do not have to pay for expensive licenses or things like that. Furthermore the source-code is freely available and you're free in changing the software to fit your needs as long as you respect the terms of iTALC's license (GPL). Freedom in two ways!
Features
iTALC has been designed for usage in school. Therefore it offers a lot of possibilities to teachers, such as
- see what's going on in computer-labs by using overview mode and make snapshots
- remote-control computers to support and help other people
- show a demo (either in fullscreen or in a window) - the teacher's screen is shown on all student's computers in realtime
- lock workstations for moving undivided attention to teacher
- send text-messages to students
- powering on/off and rebooting computers per remote
- remote logon and logoff and remote execution of arbitrary commands/scripts
- home-schooling - iTALC's network-technology is not restricted to a subnet and therefore students at home can join lessons via VPN-connections just by installing iTALC client
Furthermore iTALC is optimized for usage on multi-core systems (by making heavy use of threads). No matter how many cores you have, iTALC can make use of all of them.
Free Server Management Software
Dell's Systems Management is built around the Dell OpenManage brand which builds solutions based on industry standard's based protocols and practices.
Here you can Learn about the products, Deploy the solution and use them to Deploy your servers, Manage your environment, and Update your environment.
Dell OpenManage Wiki
Altiris’ Dell Client Manager
This new solution from Altiris – included in both DCM Plus and Altiris CMS – extends either of these products
to include options for managing Dell systems at the hardware level. Specific new features include:
• Remote BIOS Updates
• Remote, policy-based BIOS configuration (model agnostic)
• Remote hardware health monitoring
• Bundling Dell OMCI – Dell’s agent software into the Altiris agent
• Detailed Dell-specific hardware inventory integrated into the Altiris Agent
• Out of Band management for ASF or AMT compatible machines
The primary purpose of this document is to introduce the new Dell Client Manager Solution from Altiris and
overview it’s architecture and key functions.
Dell Client Manager Wiki
A Google Apps Type Of Service From Microsoft?
Live@edu is the ultimate suite of applications - mobile, desktop and web-based - to help your students collaborate on campus, and create a community that lasts a lifetime. View Video (29.2mb)
Apps students want
A co-branded email inbox students can use as their primary account; Office Live Workspace to save, access, and share documents and files online; plus more of the things that encourage collaboration.
Most sites using FreeRADIUS are intermediate in size, and are probably running the server in enterprise (i.e. corporate) environments, or in small ISPs. Over 90% of the sites have less than 100,000 users. The most interesting result is that there are a small percentage of sites have over 10,000,000 (that's 10 MILLION) users. When we add up all of the sites, the total comes to about 100,000,000 users who are authenticated via FreeRADIUS. And that number includes only the sites that filled out the survey!
A Free Work Order System from TECHSETS.org
Don't like the confusing Requestor/Staff login? Try this one: http://www.mytechdesk.org/req.php?cmd=log
EDUBUNTU: Thin client labs running on 1.0+ Ghz machines....rock solid, fast, costs nothing
The Edubuntu Classroom Server CD allows you to install Edubuntu permanently on a computer as either a Server or Workstation. It includes LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) support, providing out-of-the-box thin client support. This is the recommended CD for installation of Edubuntu.
An Edubuntu Blog about use in schools
Edubuntu Support Forums (includes wireless, security and more)
Presentation about deploying Edubuntu in MicroLans: 4 Step Edubuntu MicroLans
Free Network Monitoring Solutions
Nagios® is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program. Where can you get it? Right here. Can you get support for it? Yes! Get more answers to some of your basic questions about Nagios here.
ZABBIX 1.4: The Ultimate Monitoring Solution
ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution.
New in ZABBIX 1.4
- Flexible auto discovery
- Centralized distributed monitoring
- Advanced WEB monitoring
- Better templates
- XML data import/export
- More scalable user permissions
- and more...
www.zabbix.com/
Zenoss provides a complete suite of software and services to help you succeed in monitoring your IT infrastructure. Our software provides a single, integrated solution for monitoring your entire IT infrastructure - network, servers, applications, across the full lifecycle - inventory, configuration, availability, performance, events
www.zenoss.com/
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