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To meet your needs, the training program at LISA '08 provides in-depth, immediately useful training in the latest techniques, effective tools, and best strategies. The program offers 6 days of tutorials, with over 55 full- and half-day sessions to choose from.

LISA tutorials survey the topic, then dive into the specifics of what to do and how to do it. Instructors are well-known experts in their fields, selected for their ability to teach complex subjects. Attend tutorials at LISA '08 and take valuable skills back to your company or organization. New topics are woven in with old favorites to create the most comprehensive training program to date. Register now to guarantee your first choice—seating is limited.


Virtualization
Solaris

NEW! Training Series on Virtualization and Solaris

LISA now offers two 6-day series of classes, focusing on some of the most important topics you'll encounter: virtualization and Solaris. Follow the icons throughout the full training descriptions and complete the series. Click here for more information about these special tracks.

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Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

USENIX provides Continuing Education Units for a small additional administrative fee. The CEU is a nationally recognized standard unit of measure for continuing education and training and is used by thousands of organizations.
    Each full-day tutorial qualifies for 0.6 CEUs. You can request CEU credit by completing the CEU section on the registration form. USENIX provides a certificate for each attendee taking a tutorial for CEU credit and maintains transcripts for all CEU students. CEUs are not the same as college credits. Consult your employer or school to determine their applicability.

Sunday, November 9, 2008    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
S1  
Royal Palm Salon 1/2
 Æleen Frisch and
Kyrre Begnum 		NEW! Virtualization! What's It Good For?
Live Streaming Available
S2  
Royal Palm Salon 3/4
 James Mauro Solaris 10 Performance, Observability, and Debugging
S3
San Diego
 Adrian Cockcroft NEW! Performance Tools, Metrics, and Tuning for Solaris/Linux
S4
Pacific Salon 1
 Simson L. Garfinkel Computer Forensics (Hands-on)
S5
Pacific Salon 2
 Theodore Ts'o Inside the Linux 2.6 Kernel
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
S6
Golden West
 Abe Singer Security Without Firewalls
S7
Royal Palm Salon 5/6
 Tom Christiansen NEW! Advanced Perl, Part 1: Strings, Unicode, and Pattern Matching
S8
Pacific Salon 3
 Geoff Halprin and Elizabeth Zwicky Management 101: Effective Communication Tools for Sysadmins
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
S9
Golden West
 Abe Singer Building a Logging Infrastructure and Log Analysis for Security
S10
Royal Palm Salon 5/6
 Tom Christiansen NEW! Advanced Perl, Part 2: Packages, Modules, and Classes
S11
Pacific Salon 3
 Geoff Halprin and
Elizabeth Zwicky 		Management 201: Effective Team Management of System Administrators
Monday, November 10, 2008    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
M1  
San Diego
 Stephen Spector, Wenjin Hu, and Zach Shepherd NEW! Introduction to the Open Source Xen Hypervisor
M2  
Golden West
 Marc Staveley System and Network Performance Tuning
M3
Pacific Salon 1
 Simson L. Garfinkel NEW! Computer Forensics: Disk Forensics and Lab (Hands-on)
M4
Pacific Salon 3
 Æleen Frisch Administering Linux in Production Environments
M5
Royal Palm Salon 1/2
 Lee Damon and
Mike Ciavarella 		Seven Habits of the Highly Effective System Administra­tor: Hints, Tricks, Techniques, and Tools of the Trade
Live Streaming Available
M6
Royal Palm Salon 5/6
 Geoff Halprin Effective Change Management: Making System Integrity Easy
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
M7
Pacific Salon 2
 Tom Christiansen NEW! Advanced Perl, Part 3: Multitasking via Processes and Threads
M8
California
 Rik Farrow NEW! Working with SELinux
M9
Royal Palm Salon 3/4
 Tobias Oetiker RRDtool as a Communication Tool
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
M10
California
 John Sellens Performance Tracking with Cacti
M11
Pacific Salon 2
 Gerald Carter Wireshark (Ethereal) and the Art of Debugging Networks
M12
Royal Palm Salon 3/4
 Tobias Oetiker The Joy of Running Diskless Linux
Tuesday, November 11, 2008    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
T1  
San Diego
 John Arrasjid and Shridhar Deuskar Virtualization with VMware ESX 3i for UNIX Administrators: The Fundamentals
T2  
Windsor
 James Mauro NEW! Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace)
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
T3
Sheffield
 John Sellens Databases: What You Need to Know
T4
Royal Palm Salon 1/2
 Tobias Oetiker NEW! RRDtool by Example
T5
Royal Palm Salon 5/6
 Mike Ciavarella Advanced Shell Programming
T6
California
 Jacob Farmer UPDATED FOR 2008! Disk-to-Disk Backup and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks
T7
Hampton
 Theodore Ts'o Recovering from Linux Hard Drive Disasters
Live Streaming Available
T8
Golden West
 Mark Burgess NEW! Integrating Cfengine into Organizational Service Management
T9
Royal Palm Salon 3/4
 Marcus Ranum NEW! Reinventing Yourself
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
T10
Sheffield
 John Sellens Nagios: Advanced Topics
T11
Royal Palm Salon 1/2
 Tobias Oetiker NEW! Writing JavaScript Applications Running in the Browser with Qooxdoo
T12
Royal Palm Salon 5/6
 Mike Ciavarella Documentation Techniques for Sysadmins
T13
California
 Jacob Farmer UPDATED FOR 2008! Next-Generation Storage Networking
T14
Hampton
 Theodore Ts'o NEW! An Introduction to SystemTap
Live Streaming Available
T15
Golden West
 Mark Burgess NEW! Cfengine 3
T16
Royal Palm Salon 3/4
 Abe Singer NEW! Incident Response
Wednesday, November 12, 2008    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
W1  
Royal Palm Salon 3/4
 John Arrasjid and Shridhar Deuskar Virtualization with VMware ESX 3i for UNIX Administrators: Advanced Topics
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
W3  
Hampton
 Peter Baer Galvin and Marc Staveley NEW! Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 1: Administration (Hands-on)
W4
Sheffield
 Evan Marcus Achieving High Availability (in Your Lifetime)
W5
Windsor
 Æleen Frisch Beyond Shell Scripts: 21st-Century Automation Tools and Techniques
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
W6  
Hampton
 Peter Baer Galvin and Marc Staveley NEW! Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 2: Virtualization (Hands-on)
W7
Sheffield
 Evan Marcus Disaster Preparedness (and Recovery): How to Keep Your Company (and Your Job) Alive
W8
Windsor
 David Hankins NEW! DNS and DHCP Considerations When Migrating to IPv6
Thursday, November 13, 2008    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
R1  
Royal Palm Salon 3/4
 Phil Cox NEW! Securing Virtual Servers: XenServer and VMware ESX Server
R2
Royal Palm Salon 5/6
 Gerald Carter So You Have Active Directory: Now What? A Field Guide to AD Integration for UNIX Sysadmins
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
R3  
Hampton
 Peter Baer Galvin and Marc Staveley NEW! Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 3: File Systems (Hands-on)
R4
Sheffield
 David N. Blank-Edelman Over the Edge System Administration, Volume 1
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
R5  
Hampton
 Peter Baer Galvin and Marc Staveley NEW! Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 4: Security (Hands-on)
R6
Sheffield
 David N. Blank-Edelman Over the Edge System Administration, Volume 2
Friday, November 14, 2008    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
F1  
Hampton
 Richard McDougall NEW! VMware ESX Performance and Tuning
F2  
Royal Palm Salon 5/6
 Jeff Victor Resource Management with Solaris Containers
F3
Royal Palm Salon 3/4
 Gerald Carter Implementing [Open]LDAP Directories
F4
Sheffield
 Steve Holden NEW! Practical Python for System Administrators
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