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CAVMEN - Chicago Area
VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts |
Final Meeting Agenda:
| 9:00 AM | z/VM Installation - It's Installed, NOW What? - Part 1 |
| Your brand new z/VM system has been loaded from tape, the installation and initial service and configuration have been completed. Now what? Learn things that "everyone does" but which may not be especially well documented. Learn what NOT to do. This session will briefly cover the CP Directory, CP Owned DASD, the SYSTEM CONFIG file, Minidisks vs. Shared File System, backup and restore techniques, what you need to document "just in case", typical "best practices" in z/VM administration, and more. | |
| The speaker will be Mr. Michael Walter of Hewitt Associates. | |
| 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 3:45 PM | z/VM Installation - It's Installed, NOW What? - Part 2 |
| Your brand new z/VM system has been loaded from tape, the installation and initial service and configuration have been completed. Now what? Learn things that "everyone does" but which may not be especially well documented. Learn what NOT to do. This session will briefly cover the CP Directory, CP Owned DASD, the SYSTEM CONFIG file, Minidisks vs. Shared File System, backup and restore techniques, what you need to document "just in case", typical "best practices" in z/VM administration, and more. | |
| The speaker will be Mr. Michael Walter of Hewitt Associates. | |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 PM | Administration and Vendor Announcements |
| 2:00 PM | Network Monitoring with Linux |
| Networked systems perform critical tasks for businesses. It is
important to know when these systems are unavailable or are running in a
degraded state. Performance monitors tell you how well a system is
running, a network monitor can tell you whether a system is running.
This session will introduce the Hobbit Network monitor, an open source package that can monitor system availability. The installation, configuration, and administration of Hobbit will be discussed as well as integration into an existing zSeries infrastructure. | |
| The speaker will be Mr. Rich Smrcina of VM Assist, Inc. | |
| 3:15 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 PM | Managing Performance in z/VM |
| Mac Holloway is a development manager for IBM Tivoli. He will be presenting the Tivoli history and roadmap for managing performance in the z/VM environment. This will include both the long-time IBM and Candle products. The future will be based on the OMEGAMON XE/DE infrastructure and address the z/VM and Linux guest performance data correlation. The OMEGAMON XE/DE infrastructure provides an extensible framework for identifying and debugging performance problems across platforms and applications. | |
| The speaker will be Mr. Mac Holloway of IBM/Tivoli. | |
| 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. |
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 Conference Room 100-M3, just off the Cafeteria.If you have not attended a meeting at this location before, or you are not familiar with the area, Click here for additional information on directions, maps, lodging and dining.
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 CAVMEN@comcast.net 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.