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Re: EVENT - Building a network and system management open source tool - talk at BayLISA, Cupertino, California, USA, Thursday 16 Sept. 2004 19:30-21:00

  • From: Joe Shen
  • Date: Tue Sep 14 02:42:33 2004

In those network administration software it seems
configuration management, e.g. periodic backup,
integrity checking etc, is not covered. Is that
possible to include this ?

Joe 


--- Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]> wrote: 

> 
> If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can
> join us for a talk I
> am giving for the BayLISA (Bay Area Large
> Installations Systems
> Administrators User Group).
> http://ww:w.baylisa.org/
> and participate to a talk on the design and building
> of a new open
> source system and network management tool.
> 
> Attendance is free, hosted in the luxurious Apple
> R&D building in
> Cupertino.
> Quite often, water and fresh krispy-kremes are
> served.... a geek
> delight!
> No registration is required, free and open to the
> public.
> 
> September 16, 2004
> 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
> Apple Campus, Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA, USA
> Town Hall *BLDG 4*
> 
> Here is the event intro :
>  
> Forests and Trees://Building an Open Source
> Discovery & Management Tool
> with XML
> 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 and network admins, 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.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Philippe
> 
> philippe ombredanne | nexB - Open IT Asset
> Management 
> 1 650 799 0949 | pombredanne at nexb.com 
> http://www.nexb.com
> 
> 
>  

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