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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 > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Download the latest ringtones, games, and more! http://sg.mobile.yahoo.com
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