BayLISA Monthly Technical Talk & General Meeting
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)baylisa.org so that we can get an idea of how many
will be attending. This event is open to the general public. You do not
need to be a member to attend.
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Where: Apple Computer, Town Hall Auditorium
Addr: Four Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA
http://www.baylisa.org/locations/current.html
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Date: Thursday, 16 September 2004
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm PST
Forests and Trees: Building an Open Source Discovery & Management Tool
with XML
Philippe Ombredanne
In a an ideal world everything on the network would have a simple
management interface, and every tool could access it. Well, in our real
world, large shops typically have at least one version of every major
network equipment, hardware, and software produced in the last ten years....
As sysadmins, we rely on a mixture of commercial and open source network
management tools and a lot of scripting and elbow grease to accomplish
our magic. What about an open source system where all management data
could be accessed remotely, without an agent to install on your 1000
servers and all protocols could be used with a friendly URL, and return
standardized data that could queried and combined together regardless of
where they are coming from?
The recipe? Put a dose of ssh, sftp, http, nmap, smb, snmp, wbem, wmi,
nfs, webdav, dns, dhcp, smtp, wins, ldap, sql, mibs, mofs, ping, arp and
a couple other in a large pot. Stir well your alphabet soup, throw in a
couple RFCs for spice, then add a pinch of URI, XML, Xpath and Xquery,
some scripting, heat up to a gentle boil, and you get something that
might taste good, or at least different.
In this presentation, we will walk through design issues and trade-offs
for such an open source system, and show new ways to extend the web and
XML to network management, using existing tools, techniques, and skills.
Some live demo will be made of the kind of weird and funny capabilities
that are exposed.
Philippe Ombredanne is the CTO of nexB, a developer of open source
enterprise applications, the last frontier for open source. He was
previously at BearingPoint, Accenture, and McDonnell Douglas, where he
worked as a sysadmin, developer, and consultant.
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BayLISA meets every month on the 3rd Thursday of the month. A short
period of announcements of general interest to the sysadmin community is
presented, followed by a technical talk. Anyone may make an
announcement; typical are upcoming presentations, user group meetings,
employment offers, etc.
For further information on BayLISA, check out our web site:
http://www.baylisa.org/
Directions and details about the current meeting and future events:
http://www.baylisa.org/events/
BayLISA makes video tapes of the meetings available to members. Tape
library is often available at the general meeting, or for more
information on available videos, please send email to "video(a)baylisa.org".
If you have suggestions for speakers, or would like to volunteer to
present a talk at one of our meetings, please email the Board and
Working Group at "blw(a)baylisa.org". Thanks!
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VirtualNet Consulting http://www.virtual.net/
** Project Management & Architecture for ISP/ASP Systems Integration **
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BayLISA Monthly Technical Talk & General Meeting
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)baylisa.org so that we can get an idea of how many
will be attending. This event is open to the general public. You do not
need to be a member to attend.
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Where: Apple Computer, Town Hall Auditorium
Addr: Four Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA
http://www.baylisa.org/locations/current.html
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Date: Thursday, 19 August 2004
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm PST
"Where the heck is my flying car?"
Tom Limoncelli
It's 2004 and we still don't have moving side-walks or flying cars, and
computers aren't nearly as cool as they were on The Jetsons. Where did
we go wrong and what can we do to solve the problem? Tom will talk
about recent epiphanies he's had about "best practices" in system
administration, mostly brought about by his recent experience visiting
some of the largest and smallest networks in the world. (And he has a
lot to say about Apple OS X Server.)
He's also working on a new book about time management for sysadmins, and
will be treating us to some excerpts!
Tom Limoncelli is Director of IT Services at Cibernet Corp. Co-author
of "The Practice of System And Network Administration", which has become
"standard equipment" for employees at OSDN/Slashdot, Google, and many
other companies. He was previously at Lumeta, Bell Labs/Lucent, and is
a frequent speaker at Usenix/LISA conferences. This is his second
BayLISA appearance.
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BayLISA meets every month on the 3rd Thursday of the month. A short
period of announcements of general interest to the sysadmin community is
presented, followed by a technical talk. Anyone may make an
announcement; typical are upcoming presentations, user group meetings,
employment offers, etc.
For further information on BayLISA, check out our web site:
http://www.baylisa.org/
Directions and details about the current meeting and future events:
http://www.baylisa.org/events/
BayLISA makes video tapes of the meetings available to members. Tape
library is often available at the general meeting, or for more
information on available videos, please send email to "video(a)baylisa.org".
If you have suggestions for speakers, or would like to volunteer to
present a talk at one of our meetings, please email the Board and
Working Group at "blw(a)baylisa.org". Thanks!
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Strata Rose Chalup [KF6NBZ] strata "@" virtual.net
VirtualNet Consulting http://www.virtual.net/
** Project Management & Architecture for ISP/ASP Systems Integration **
=========================================================================