Workshop 1: Large
Project Deployment Cancelled
Coordinator: Joel Avery, Nortel Networks
This workshop will examine in detail several complex projects that have faced
obstacles such as size of deployment, compressed schedule, legacy systems, or
office politics. Participants should be senior administrators, architects, or
designers who have real-world examples of major projects they have solved or
will soon face.
For more information about this workshop, including how to register, please see
https://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/largeproject/.
Workshop 2:
Teaching System Administration
Coordinators: Curt Freeland, University of Notre Dame, and John Sechrest,
PEAK, Inc.
The focus of the workshop is the implementation of the course framework
developed at the USENIX Systems Administration Education Workshop at LISA '99.
Participants will work toward the development of course materials (syllabus, lectures, labs,
homework problems, and exams) suitable for use in a college-level course on
systems administration.
This one-day workshop will include presentations by university and vendor
systems-administration instructors, as well as group discussions where the
participants will begin to design a syllabus and other course materials.
Participants will be current and potential instructors of university-level
systems administration courses and senior system administrators with an interest
in this topic.
To register for this workshop, please send email with a short description of
your background in teaching systems administration to ustsa-l@peak.org.
Workshop 3:
MetaLISA
Coordinators: Cat Okita, Global Crossing, and Tom Limoncelli, Lumeta/Lucent
Technologies
Many system administrators find themselves managing other system administrators,
either officially or unofficially. The more experienced sysadmins become, the
more likely it is that they will be asked to do "management" things. In this
workshop, attendees will describe real management situations and will discuss
ways of handling these situations, with particular attention to issues specific
to managing system administrators. Both old-timers and new managers will find it
useful to attend. The format will be moderated discussion.
To register for this workshop, please send email with a short description of
your management background to metalisa-workshop@usenix.org.
Workshop 4:
Developing Strategies for Managing Very Large Storage Installations Cancelled
Coordinator: Stephen M. DiPietro, Compaq Computer Corporation
Computing facilities containing a petabyte of storage are currently being
planned and constructed. Managing these emerging facilities will present
unprecedented challenges to system administrators. In this workshop we will
explore the system management issues presented by these very large storage
installations.
To register for this workshop, please send email with a short description of
your storage background to petabyte-workshop@usenix.org.
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Workshop 5:
Advanced Topics Workshop
Coordinator: Adam Moskowitz, Blackstone Technology Group
This one-day workshop will focus on the most difficult problems facing system
administrators today. Attendance is limited and based on acceptance of a
position paper. Additional information on this workshop is available at
https://www.menlo.com/atw2000/.
Potential workshop attendees should submit a one-page position paper in ASCII to
atw-workshop@usenix.org.
Papers should contain a statement of what the author
thinks is the most difficult or important issue facing system administrators
today.
Workshop 6:
Large-Scale Service Providers
Coordinators: John Orthoefer, Genuity Inc., and Cat Okita, Global
Crossing
This workshop is for system administrators with many geographically dispersed
datacenters of varying sizes. The format will be moderated group discussion.
Topics include:
- Remote access, installation, and updating
- Securing a small network of machines
- Monitoring systems and services
- Service redundancy and fail-over
Potential workshop attendees should send email to
lssp-workshop@usenix.org with
a short position statement and a facilities description.
Workshop 7: The
Present and Future of AFS
Coordinators: Esther Filderman, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Ted McCabe,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Derrick Brashear, Carnegie Mellon
University
This workshop for AFS administrators will cover current work being done at AFS
sites, issues in AFS administration, and where the future of AFS is headed.
Potential participants should send email to
afs-workshop@usenix.org with one or
both of the following: a short paper addressing topics they believe are
important to the present or future of AFS, or an abstract of a paper to be
presented on work done or in progress in relation to AFS or Arla.
Workshop 8:
Workshop on Process Maturity and Benchmarking
Coordinators: Carolyn Hennings, Megapipe, Tom Limoncelli, Lumeta/Lucent
Technologies, and Alva L. Couch, Tufts University
How does your IT organization compare to others? How do your methods and
procedures compare to those of others? There is no metric for comparing two
organizations, which makes it very difficult to plan for and assess improvements
in an IT organization.
A metric known as the Systems Administration Maturity Model (SAMM) has been
proposed. In this workshop we will discuss SAMM and alternatives and will try to
build a common understanding of this area. The outcome of the workshop is
intended to be a vision and action plan for moving forward.
Further information about this workshop can be found at
https://whatexit.org/process/.
Potential participants should send email to
metrics-workshop@usenix.org with a
paragraph or two about their experiences and interest in IT organization metrics
and practices.
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