[DRAFT]: News & BALUG 2006-10-17: Patrick McGovern of Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center Here's DRAFT for the "announce" list (also Bcced to Patrick McGovern). Let me(/us) know if anything should be added, changed, etc. I'll probably send it out sometime this Friday 2006-10-06: News & BALUG 2006-10-17: Patrick McGovern of Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For our October 17th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Splunk, a company that claims to take the SH out of IT: TOPIC: Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center. SPEAKER: Patrick McGovern BACKGROUND: Splunk, based in San Francisco, makes a web-based AJAX-enhanced search engine that allows system administrators and programmers to search all their incoming log files in real time (any type of log files: Sendmail, Cisco, MySQL, syslog, etc.) with a browser. It's a powerful tool to allow people to 'see' inside their systems as they are running. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Patrick is the Chief Community Splunker at Splunk, Inc. Prior to joining Splunk, Patrick McGovern managed SourceForge.net for five years for VA Software / OSTG. http://www.splunk.com/ http://www.balug.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitoring SIG starts in San Francisco 2006-10-10: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2006-October/00007... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ No BALUG meeting in December this year. Note that BALUG will not be meeting in December of this year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.balug.org/