[plug] ANNOUNCMENT - MEETING: 14/May/2002 Central TAFE

[DJ Jackson]

What room and what time is the presentation?? Reserve me a seat !!!

"Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" wrote:

> Hello All.
>         Just a quick announcement for the May talk at TAFE.  This month we have
> Mike Selig, Director of Architecture - Functional Software Pty Ltd.  Giving
> us first bash at his AUUG talk for this year.
>
> Here is the abstract.
> ------------------------
> System Monitoring - much more than red and green
>
>     Michael Selig
>     Director of Architecture
>     Functional Software Pty Ltd
>
> Most commercial data centres these days provide services that are
> critical to the day-to-day functioning of their entire organisation.
> These services and the infrastructure supporting them (hardware,
> operating system, database etc) should be monitored to ensure that
> everything is "healthy".
>
> Like a monitor connected to a human in hospital, the doctor is interested
> in more than simply "alive" or "dead". The data returned by the monitor,
> and the changes in this data over time are an important aid in diagnosis
> and prediction of future problems.
>
> I suggest that System Monitoring should centre around data collection,
> and using this data to detect events in a smart, state-based way. It is
> then straightforward to tie things like notifying users about problems
> and taking remedial action to each state. You can also use the collected
> data for reporting, and to determine whether Service Levels are being
> met.
>
> In this presentation I shall describe the System Monitoring architecture
> that we implemented at Functional Software, and explain some of the
> important design decisions that were made to enable such a product to be
> implemented by an R&D team of only 3 people. For those who are
> interested, I shall have a copy of Functional Software's product,
> "sentinel3G" running on a Linux notebook.
> ------------------------
>
> If you have Linux boxes that you would like (or need) to monitor for system
> health then this will be an interesting talk.  Recently SAGE-AU had a similar
> talk presentEd by Alan Main.  teh SAGE talk focused more on the application
> (sentinel3G), this talk is focused more on the theories behind the
> application.
>
> Yours Tony.
>
> /*
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>  * same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
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