About the Author

Alan Wijntje has been working in the IT field since 2000 when he started out as a simple technician providing local IT support to various companies.

Figuring out why something broke (and then fixing it) soon became his specialty, and he outgrew this job within a couple of years; his employer was quick to recognize this, and within days, he was given a new assignment to work on the NOC for a major Dutch ISP.

After settling in, Alan quickly started to get to grips with the various monitoring systems and was soon making various improvements.

His love for Linux was a great asset when he was granted more and more freedom to tinker with various systems, including Netcool OMNIbus and Nagios.

After three years (and a company merger), Alan ...

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