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MEETING INTRODUCTION
Unigroup's June 2012 meeting will be a panel discussion on tools (mostly software tools) that a system/network/security administrator or developer may find useful.
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DIRECTIONS
Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
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'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
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'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
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'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
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Astor Place (8th Street).
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: SysAdmin Tools Round Table - Panel Discussion
Introduction & Description of Talk:
Unigroup's SysAdmin Tools Round Table will be an informal panel discussion on tools (mostly software tools) that a system/network/security administrator or developer may find useful, but perhaps never knew about.
The idea will be to BRIEFLY present a PILE of useful tools at this meeting (as many as we can fit in)... perhaps tools that are not found in standard OS distributions, various open source tools, perhaps some commercial tools, perhaps tools that have been discussed with great interest in the community (user groups and conferences). Hopefully we'll hit upon a bunch of useful tools that many people should know about, but never heard of before.
And please bring a list of your favorite and most useful tools, and their respective URLs, and we'll try to discuss them as well. Even if you don't know the details about a particular useful tool, let us know about it... one goal of this meeting is to simply "get the word out" to our Unigroup community about these tools.
Outline of Talk:
Avere/CacheIQ
bcfg
capistrano
cfengine
chef
cloudera manager tool (for quick hadoop cluster setup)
cobbler (to manage redhat/centos kickstart)
coreutils (for checksum tools)
daemontools
dimstat
dstat
dvd+rw-tools (cd/dvd tools)
fabric (python deployment library)
fileop
filestream
ftrace
ganglia
gerrit (code review tool)
gns3 (cisco ios emulator)
graphite
gridftp
iperf
iotop
iptraf
jenkins (continuous integration tool)
links/elinks (browser)
lynx (browser)
mtr (continuous traceroute)
munin
nagios
nc (netcat)
nedi/netdisco
netdot
netflow
nmap (network tool)
OpenTSDB
parallel
pigz
puppet
qemu (multi-architecture cpu emulator)
rancid
scotty
silverpeak
sio
sleuthkit (forensics)
syslinux (gpxe booting)
tcpbench
tcpkill
ttcp
vagrant (virtualized dev/test environment)
xmllint (prettyprint xml)
xzutils/7zip (xz compression, now in wide use)
References & Web Resources:
To-be-announced.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Panel:
Doug Hughes is the Manager for the Infrastructure Team at D. E. Shaw
Research, LLC. in Manhattan. Doug fell into system administration
accidently after acquiring a BE in Computer Engineering, and decided
that it suited him.
Doug is also a Co-Chair of LOPSA-NYC
Justin Lintz is a Sr. Systems Administrator for Bitly.
Justin is also a Co-Chair of LOPSA-NYC
Robert Weiner is the founder and President of
Programming Plus,
a business which provides Computer-Related
Hardware and Software Consulting & Engineering Services (for Unix,
Linux, BSD, OpenVMS, Windows and DOS). Robert is an Electrical
Engineer (with BE and ME degrees from The Cooper Union in NYC),
a NYS Licensed Professional Engineer, Software Developer and
Systems Administrator, who has been working with Unix for around
30 years, and Linux for around 20 years. Robert has been a
Unigroup member since 1985, a Unigroup Board Member since 1991,
and Unigroup's Executive Director since 1992.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
To-be-announced.
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.
We have some Solaris Related CD-ROMs from our friends at the
local NYC Sun Microsystems Office.
(Note: Our supply of books is low right now, we hope to resolve that soon.)
FEE SCHEDULE
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FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
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