The fourth quarter meeting of the Chicago Area VM (and Linux)
Enthusiasts will be held on Thursday, October 19, 2006.
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Meeting Location:
This quarter's meeting will be held at the Hewitt Associates 'East
Campus' located at 100 Half Day Road, in Lincolnshire, IL. We will
meet in the Lower Level Conference Room in Building 98 - back to our
regular meeting location.
If you have not attended a meeting at this location before, or you
are not familiar with the area,
<http://cavmen.home.comcast.net/hewittb99.html>Click here for
additional information on directions, maps, lodging and dining.
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Attendance:
Our host site has requested a count of expected attendees by the
Monday before the meeting, so that they can plan appropriately for
refreshments, etc. If you are planning to attend, PLEASE send an
E-Mail by that date to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject line of "Meeting Attendance".
This is meant to be a facilities planning aid and should not be
interpreted as a registration requirement. If you suddenly become
available at the last minute, please feel free to attend even if you
have not responded.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
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Agenda:
9:00 AM z/VM Performance Update
The speaker will cover new developments in the z/VM performance area.
Topics will include the latest z/VM releases and performance-related
service. We will also look at some performance development in the
area of Linux guest support.
The speaker will be Dr. Brian Wade of the IBM Corporation.
10:30 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM Automating Application Startup under Linux
The creation of automatic startup scripts for applications on Linux
is poorly-documented and fraught with some peril in the early SUSE
and RedHat releases. In this presentation, we'll go over what happens
during Linux startup, the SysV init script structure that is used by
most Linux distributions, and how to create scripts that can be
safely integrated into the Linux startup process to start your
applications at boot time. We'll look at automating and transforming
some vendor-supplied startup processes for Oracle and DB2, and
providing a flexible framework for building easily configurable
startup scripts for new applications.
The speaker will be Dr. David Boyes of Sine Nomine Associates.
12:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM Administration and Vendor Announcements
1:45 PM Update on z/VM Systems and Storage Management
Products from IBM
The focus of this session will be Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM
V1.2, announced and available in August 2006. The speaker will also
review anything new in Tape Manager and Operations Manager since
their V1.2 releases in February 2006. A live demo will be included.
The speaker will be Ms. Tracy Dean of the IBM Corporation.
2:30 PM z/VM and Linux on System z Performance Monitoring -
An Update on How and With What Products
z/VM is critical to the growing use of Linux on System z. Managing
this environment requires insight into resource consumption at the
z/VM level and at the Linux guest level. IBM's product offerings
provide an integrated way to monitor (and manage) these performance
characteristics. This presentation will discuss the current offerings
and the new IBM OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux, which IBM preview
announced in August 2006.
The speaker will be Mr. Mac Holloway of IBM/Tivoli.
3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:45 PM Integrating IBM Solutions for System and Performance
Management of z/VM and Linux on System z.
Management, including automation, often spans products and
activities. These exist within a larger automation infrastructure and
product set. This session will introduce scenarios that involve the
integration of IBM z/VM system and performance management products,
including IBM Operations Manager for z/VM and the recently announced
IBM OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux.
The speakers will be Ms. Tracy Dean and Mr. Mac Holloway of IBM.
4:45 PM Free-for-All
Members will attempt to answer any reasonable VM or hardware related
questions. If you are having a problem and want to find out if others
are experiencing it, or you are installing new hardware or software
and want to find out what types of problems others have experienced,
here is the place to find out.
Members are encouraged to bring ideas for future presentations and
speakers to this meeting.
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Please check the WEB site for Map and Directions:
http://cavmen.home.comcast.net
In addition, you will also find extensive information available on
dining and lodging in the Hewitt Associates area.
Additional information about the CAVMEN group, and other VM related
items of interest are available on our web site.
There is no charge for admission to meetings.
Meeting attendance is open to anyone, and advance registration is not required.
I look forward to seeing all of you at the meeting.
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Mark M. Suchecki
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CAVMEN Coordinator
Voice: (847) 518-0058
FAX: (847) 518-0083
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://cavmen.home.comcast.net
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