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 ================================================================== 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 -- Faisal N. Jawdat on Introduction to Ruby, Rails, and Capistrano -- And more . . . The full training program can be found at http://www.usenix.org/lisa07/training/ In addition to the training, 3 days of technical sessions include top-notch refereed papers, informative invited talks, expert Guru Is In sessions, and the popular Hit the Ground Running track. http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/tech/ * Our 20+ invited talks feature our most impressive slate of speakers to date. 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We selected papers from over 50 submissions, showcasing state-of-the-art work on topics including configuration management, managing grids and clusters, virtualization, security via firewalls, and more. * 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 you will encounter, and what Web sites and books are the best resources. * 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 http://www.usenix.org/lisa07/proga 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 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* * Artist, Gardener, Engineer, Slacker, Bodhisattva * * 650-279-1136 | KF6NBZ | strata at virtual.net * *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* 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