Hobbit being taught in college syadmin courses!

[Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com>]

I'm happy to report that last week I was a guest speaker at MCC (Mesa 
Community College), located in Mesa, Arizona.  The class was CIS240DL - 
Linux Network Administration. During the 4 hour class, I gave a complete 
presentation on Hobbit, and the instructor and I helped the students 
install their own Hobbit servers and configure them to monitor services 
both on the server and some remote clients.  We had a couple of snags as 
all the workstations were CentOS, so we had to perform a few extra steps 
to get the prereqs, and battle SELinux :-)

It seemed to go very well, and the students seemed impressed and pleased 
with Hobbit.  I think I may have even converted one experienced student 
who seemed to prefer Zabbix :)

The instructor seemed to enjoy the presentation as well, and it looks 
like I will also be invited to a repeat performance for the CIS238DL 
Linux System Administration class.  He has also invited me to speak 
about Hobbit at the local LUG.

So, just reporting that Hobbit is getting lots of exposure here in 
Arizona!  _Henrik, I hope you don't mind, but for my presentation I used 
the slides you have up on your site as a framework_. I made sure to 
credit you as not only the main author of Hobbit but as the source of 
the slides :)

I encourage others to evangelize Hobbit wherever they can. In my 
experience a lot of people have not heard of it, and once they see it 
they are like "wow" and want to start using it.  The more the community 
grows, the better our chance of getting acceptance to the various 
distros, and more volunteers to help contribute code and ideas to help 
Henrik out.

-Charles