From sigje at sigje.org Wed Aug 1 10:56:32 2007
From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:56:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Urgent: Upcoming BayLISA Events for 8/7 and 8/8 2007
Message-ID: <20070801103927.B41777@slick.sigje.org>
NEXT WEEK in conjunction with the LinuxWorld event, we have some great
events planned through the Monitoring SIG.
First, we have the BayLISA Meet and Greet Monitoring Banquet. This will
be August 8 2007 (Wednesday) at 7pm at Henry's Hunan 110 Natoma St San
Francisco. Many thanks to Peter Mui as the BayLISA Monitoring SIG for
organizing this and signing up all the various monitoring folks (Alex
Russell - Dojo Toolkit, Ethan Galstad - Nagios, Howard Jones - PHP
WeatherMap, Ian Berry - Cacti, Matt Massie - Ganglia, Remo Rickli - NeDi,
and Tobi Oetiker - RRDTool, MRTG, SmokePing). Food will be covered, but
we are limited to maximum of 100 people. Register here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/67945226
You can meet, talk with, and visit these folks at LinuxWorld as well.
Make sure to:
Register for a free exhibits pass in advance (to avoid long lines) at:
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/
Use GroundWork's Priority Code N0170 to see if that gets you anything.
==================================================================
The activities are:
1) "Ask the Expert" presentations at GroundWork booth during exhibit hours
2) IT Monitoring BoF Tuesday, 6PM (BOF5)
3) Meet-n-Greet IT Banquet at Henry's Hunan, 110 Natoma St., Weds, Aug 8, 7PM
==================================================================
1) "Ask the Expert" presentations at GroundWork booth during exhibit hours
Tuesday and Wednesday, August 7, 8:
"Ask the Expert" Q&A presentations at booth 501 in Exhibits Hall. Tentative
schedule:
Tuesday:
11-Noon Remo Rickli - NeDi
2-3 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping
3-4 Ian Berry - Cacti
4-5 Howard Jones - php-Weathermap
Wednesday:
11-Noon Alex Russell - Dojo Toolkit
2-3 Ethan Galstad - Nagios
3-4 Remo Rickli - NeDi
4-5 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping
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2) IT Monitoring BoF Tuesday, 6PM (BOF5)
BOF5: IT Monitoring Tips and Tricks
08/07/2007, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
A freeform Q&A session where you can take advantage of the assembled wisdom to
tackle your thorniest (or most basic) monitoring issues. Featuring the project
leads for Ganglia, Cacti, RRDtool, MRTG, NeDi, Sendpage and Smokeping. Also on
hand: members of the SF-Bay Area-local BayLISA Monitoring SIG, which has been
meeting regularly to develop, document, and disseminate best practices with
regards to IT monitoring.
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO07A/conference/tracksessions//QMONYB001HW5
Many many thanks to Peter Mui, and GroundWork for their continued support,
and involvement in BayLISA. Peter has been managing the Monitoring SIG
and organizing great events up in the SF area for quite a few months now.
From pmui at groundworkopensource.com Wed Aug 1 12:48:05 2007
From: pmui at groundworkopensource.com (Peter Mui)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:48:05 -0700
Subject: BayLISA Monitoring SIG: Extra-Special LinuxWorld Activities: Tues August 7 and Weds August 8
Message-ID: <22835859-A20A-465C-8B42-54DD714E694A@groundworkopensource.com>
Hi:
The BayLISA Monitoring SIG is proud to offer this fantastic lineup of
people and activities in conjunction with LinuxWorld Expo next week:
These activities are centered around the visits of these illustrious
Project Leads:
Alex Russell ? Dojo, http://dojotoolkit.org/
Ethan Galstad ? Nagios, http://www.nagios.org/
Howard Jones ? php-Weathermap, http://www.network-weathermap.com/
Ian Berry ? Cacti, http://www.cacti.net/ (and the rest of the Cacti
Development Team)
Matt Massie ? Ganglia, http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
Remo Rickli ? NeDi, http://nedi.sourceforge.net/
Scott Parris ? Monarch, http://sourceforge.net/projects/monarch/
Taylor Dondich ? Fruity, http://fruity.sourceforge.net/
Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, and Smokeping, http:// oss.oetiker.ch/
mrtg/
Register for a free exhibits pass in advance (to avoid long lines) at:
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/
(Use GroundWork's Priority Code N0170 to see if that gets you
anything extra.)
==================================================================
The activities are:
1) "Ask the Expert" presentations Tuesday and Wednesday
2) IT Monitoring BoF Tuesday, Aug 7, 6PM
3) Meet-n-Greet Reception and Dinner at Henry's Hunan, 110 Natoma
St., Wednesday, Aug 8, 7PM
Here are details of the events:
==================================================================
1) "Ask the Expert" presentations
Here's your chance to learn about your favorite tools direct from the
project leads, and to ask them questions one-on-one about their
projects.
Tuesday and Wednesday, August 7, 8:
"Ask the Expert" Q&A presentations at booth 501 in Exhibits Hall.
Tentative schedule:
Tuesday, August 7:
11-Noon Remo Rickli - NeDi
1-2 Taylor Dondich - Fruity
2-3 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping
3-4 Ian Berry - Cacti
4-5 Howard Jones - php-Weathermap
Wednesday, August 8:
11-Noon Alex Russell - Dojo Toolkit
1-2 Scott Parris - Monarch
2-3 Ethan Galstad - Nagios
3-4 Remo Rickli - NeDi
4-5 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping
==================================================================
2) IT Monitoring BoF Tuesday, 6PM (BOF5)
BOF5: IT Monitoring Tips and Tricks
08/07/2007, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
A freeform Q&A session where you can take advantage of the assembled
wisdom to tackle your thorniest (or most basic) monitoring issues.
Featuring the project leads for Ganglia, Cacti, RRDtool, MRTG, NeDi,
Sendpage and Smokeping. Also on hand: members of the SF-Bay Area-
local BayLISA Monitoring SIG, which has been meeting regularly to
develop, document, and disseminate best practices with regards to IT
monitoring.
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO07A/conference/
tracksessions//QMONYB001HW5
==================================================================
3) Meet-n-Greet Reception and Dinner at Henry's Hunan, 110 Natoma
St., Weds, Aug 8, 7PM
A very special meeting of the BayLISA Monitoring SIG: the project
leads are scheduled to attend, and Bay Area Debian and BayLISA at
large are also invited. BayLISA and GroundWork are hosting this event.
RSVP - REGISTRATION MANDATORY for this event so we know how many
people to expect! Please RSVP at this URL:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/67945226
==================================================================
Let me know if you have questions, hope to see you (multiple times)
next week! -Peter
Peter Mui
GROUNDWORK Open Source, Inc.
139 Townsend Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94107-1946
+1 415 992 4573 (direct)
+1 415 947 0684 (fax)
pmui at groundworkopensource.com
www.groundworkopensource.com
From sigje at sigje.org Tue Aug 7 09:28:53 2007
From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:28:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: BayLISA Meet and Greet Monitoring Banquet 8/8/2007
Message-ID: <20070807092519.Q96975@slick.sigje.org>
This is your last chance to register for the special BayLISA meet and
greet Monitoring Banquet tomorrow at Henry's Hunan. You _must_ rsvp via
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/67945226 or email rsvp at baylisa.org TODAY
by 5pm. We have to give counts to the restaurant, and we need to know
what to expect it to cost the organizations covering.
Food is covered by BayLISA and GroundWork Open Source, so it's just your
drinks that will cost you anything (and depending on how many people show
up we might cover this for soda/tea).
This will be a special BayLISA, and Monitoring SIG meeting to meet and
talk with various monitoring specialists.
Remo Rickli - NeDi
Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping
Ian Berry - Cacti
Howard Jones - php-Weathermap
Alex Russell - Dojo Toolkit
Ethan Galstad - Nagios
After the BoFs, and QA sessions at Linux World, meet some of the minds
behind some of the interesting monitoring tools out there. Also spend
some time among peers discussing problems, and potential solutions.
The menu will be:
Appetizers:
Onion Cake
Spring Rolls
Entrees:
Kung Pao Chicken
Beef w/ Broccoli
Hunan Shrimp
Dry-Sauteed String Beans
Eight Delights Vegetables
Five Spiced Bean Curd
Steamed White Rice
Many thanks to GroundWork
Open Source for sponsoring this event!
Sponsors:
BayLISA
GroundWork Open Source
Jennifer Davis
From ahorn at deorth.org Wed Aug 15 16:49:08 2007
From: ahorn at deorth.org (Alan Horn)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:49:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: change of venue for Tomorrow's BayLISA general meeting.
Message-ID: <20070815164841.C63359@slick.sigje.org>
Hi all,
Due to the fact that we don't have a speaker arranged for this months meeting,
I'm declaring a social evening instead.
Lets plan on meeting at BJ's in Cupertino (yes, the place next to the apple
campus), anytime after 8pm. No specific plans or reservations but if folks want
to drink and eat then they'll all be in the same place to do so :)
If any members of the BayLISA board are there, I'm sure we can cover some
appetizers for the evening as well.
Cheers,
Al
From ahorn at deorth.org Wed Aug 15 16:35:50 2007
From: ahorn at deorth.org (Alan Horn)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:35:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Cancel/change of venue for Tomorrow's BayLISA general meeting.
Message-ID: <20070815162446.H63359@slick.sigje.org>
Hi all,
Due to the fact that we don't have a speaker arranged for this months
meeting, I'm declaring a social evening instead.
Lets plan on meeting at BJ's in Cupertino (yes, the place next to the
apple campus), anytime after 8pm. No specific plans or reservations but if
folks want to drink and eat then they'll all be in the same place to do so
:)
If any members of the BayLISA board are there, I'm sure we can cover some
appetizers for the evening as well.
Cheers,
Al
From lgj at usenix.org Thu Aug 16 13:52:37 2007
From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:52:37 -0700
Subject: LISA '07 Registration Now Available
Message-ID: <46C4B915.1050008@usenix.org>
-----------------------------------------------------------
LISA '07:
21st Large Installation System Administration Conference
http://www.usenix.org/lisa07/proga
November 11-16, 2007, Dallas, TX
Early Bird Registration Deadline: October 19, 2007
Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE
-----------------------------------------------------------
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of all of the LISA '07 organizers, I'd like to invite you to
join us in Dallas, TX, for the 21st Large Installation System
Administration Conference.
For the past 20 years LISA has been the focal point for the global
community of system and network administrators. This year LISA continues
that tradition, featuring innovative tools and techniques essential for
your professional and technical development.
Take advantage of the popular 6 days of training. Select from over 50
tutorials taught by highly expert instructors, including:
-- Steve VanDevender on High-Capacity Email System Design
-- AEleen Frisch on Administering Linux in Production Environments
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-- And more . . .
The full training program can be found at
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In addition to the training, 3 days of technical sessions include
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http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/tech/
* Our 20+ invited talks feature our most impressive slate of speakers to
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-- "A Service-Oriented Data Grid: Beyond Storage Virtualization," by Bruce
Moxon, Senior Director of Strategic Technology and Grid Guru, Network
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-- "The LHC Computing Challenge," by Tony Cass, CERN
-- "Scaling Production Repairs and QA Operations in a Live Environment," by
Shane Knapp and Avleen Vig, Google, Inc.
-- "Experiences with Scalable Network Operations at Akamai," by Erik
Nygren, Chief Systems Architect, Akamai Technologies
* LISA is the premier forum for presenting new research in system
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* Get a head start on key technologies with 15-minute talks in the Hit the
Ground Running track. Find out about the basic concepts, what acronyms
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* Bring your perplexing technical questions to experts at LISA's Guru Is
In sessions.
* Explore the latest commercial innovations at the Vendor Exhibition.
* Benefit from opportunities for peer interaction around the topics
that mean the most to you.
For complete program information and to register, see
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Early registration discounts for LISA '07, taking place November 11-16,
2007, in Dallas, TX, are now available. Register by Friday, October 19,
and save up to $300!
We're pleased to bring LISA to Dallas, and we look forward to seeing you
there.
On behalf of the LISA '07 Program Committee,
Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh
LISA '07 Program Chair
lisa07chair at usenix.org
-----------------------------------------------------------
LISA '07:
21st Large Installation System Administration Conference
http://www.usenix.org/lisa07/proga
November 11-16, 2007, Dallas, TX
Early Bird Registration Deadline: October 19, 2007
Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE
-----------------------------------------------------------
From strata at virtual.net Thu Aug 16 14:42:44 2007
From: strata at virtual.net (Strata R Chalup)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:42:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: change of venue for Tomorrow's BayLISA
general meeting.
Message-ID: <20070816144244.ACU60232@m1.imap-partners.net>
I'll be there, and I'll happily sign folks' copies of the 2nd edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration (Limoncelli, Hogan, and Chalup; 2007).
If anybody wants a copy and hasn't bought theirs yet, I'll bring some copies that I have for a special discount for BayLISA members. :-)
cheers,
Strata
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* 650-279-1136 | KF6NBZ | strata at virtual.net *
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From ulf at Alameda.net Thu Aug 30 00:52:10 2007
From: ulf at Alameda.net (Ulf Zimmermann)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:52:10 -0700
Subject: cfengine guru? :-)
Message-ID: <20070830075210.GP824@evil.alameda.net>
I am banging my head against the table trying to get cfrun to work from
my policyhost. Anyone have a more detailed example? I seem to have
a specific access list problem but everything I try doesn't make it better.
Sigh.
--
Regards, Ulf.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204
You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
From eric at explosive.net Thu Aug 30 14:40:27 2007
From: eric at explosive.net (Eric Sorenson)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:40:27 -0700
Subject: cfengine guru? :-)
In-Reply-To: <20070830075210.GP824@evil.alameda.net>
References: <20070830075210.GP824@evil.alameda.net>
Message-ID:
On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:52 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> I am banging my head against the table trying to get cfrun to work
> from
> my policyhost. Anyone have a more detailed example? I seem to have
> a specific access list problem but everything I try doesn't make it
> better.
>
Are you on freenode IRC #cfengine? I have been talking to a couple of
people there about cfrun lately. Drop by if you haven't and maybe we
can work it through. Also check out this page on cfwiki for the top 2
or 3 things about cfrun that seem to trip up people the most:
http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Cfrun_and_Cfservd_Confusion
Did an article come out recently that talked about cfrun or
something? It has been kind of a backwater that nobody used until the
last month or two when there've been tons of people running into
trouble trying to use it.
- Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738 - http://ahpook.vox.com/ -
From eric at explosive.net Thu Aug 30 17:20:47 2007
From: eric at explosive.net (Eric Sorenson)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:20:47 -0700
Subject: cfengine guru? :-)
In-Reply-To: <20070830234347.GT824@evil.alameda.net>
References: <20070830075210.GP824@evil.alameda.net> <20070830234347.GT824@evil.alameda.net>
Message-ID: <89792BCB-3426-44FE-9296-EB8FC6728127@explosive.net>
On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
>
> I got my framework now working, including being able to "push" by
> using cfrun to get cfagent to trigger to check for updates.
>
OK, good that you got it working. Be aware though that really cfrun
is for 'last resort' kinds of problems - mostly the way it's supposed
to run
is that you make some change on your server configs, the clients
check in regularly via update.conf to download the updated config and
perform whatever action you want them to do, semi-autonomously.
> Now I am starting to look at policies what to implement, well
> started with integrating some stuff from my kickstart configs.
> Need to rework my yum repository to make it work correctly with
> both our 32bit and 64bit installs we are now having.
Good luck with that, I found 64-bit redhat to be completely broken.
Why on earth do they have separate /usr/lib and /usr/lib64
directories, but put binaries together in /usr/bin!? 64-bit packages
are allowed to over-write 32-bit programs which leads to a complete
mess, especially for programs which use the '/usr/bin/-cfg'
convention to tell autoconf how to build for them...
- Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738 - http://ahpook.vox.com/ -
From ulf at Alameda.net Thu Aug 30 16:43:47 2007
From: ulf at Alameda.net (Ulf Zimmermann)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:43:47 -0700
Subject: cfengine guru? :-)
In-Reply-To:
References: <20070830075210.GP824@evil.alameda.net>
Message-ID: <20070830234347.GT824@evil.alameda.net>
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:40:27PM -0700, Eric Sorenson wrote:
>
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:52 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
>
> >I am banging my head against the table trying to get cfrun to work
> >from
> >my policyhost. Anyone have a more detailed example? I seem to have
> >a specific access list problem but everything I try doesn't make it
> >better.
> >
>
> Are you on freenode IRC #cfengine? I have been talking to a couple of
> people there about cfrun lately. Drop by if you haven't and maybe we
> can work it through. Also check out this page on cfwiki for the top 2
> or 3 things about cfrun that seem to trip up people the most:
>
> http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Cfrun_and_Cfservd_Confusion
>
> Did an article come out recently that talked about cfrun or
> something? It has been kind of a backwater that nobody used until the
> last month or two when there've been tons of people running into
> trouble trying to use it.
>
> - Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738 - http://ahpook.vox.com/ -
I looked at cfengine over the last 2 years but being overworked and
understaff it always has been put on the back burner. Now 2 other
departments recently hired people (not IT unfortunatly so far) and
that meant having to go around 100+ servers creating accounts for
them again. So I started looking at cfengine again yesterday.
I got my framework now working, including being able to "push" by
using cfrun to get cfagent to trigger to check for updates.
Now I am starting to look at policies what to implement, well
started with integrating some stuff from my kickstart configs.
Need to rework my yum repository to make it work correctly with
both our 32bit and 64bit installs we are now having.
--
Regards, Ulf.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204
You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html