ellie@usenix.ORG (Ellie Young) (09/20/90)
Large Installation Systems Administration IV Conference and Tutorial Program October 17-19, 1990 Colorado Springs, Colorado Wednesday, October 17 TUTORIAL: Topics in Large Installation Systems Administration INSTRUCTORS: Rob Kolstad, Jeff Polk, Sun Microsystems Evi Nemeth, Trent Hein, University of Colorado A two-track tutorial program will be held in conjunction with the Conference. This program allows attendees to choose which sections of the tutorials most interest them. Participants can change between the tracks at each topic change to the session which appears most interesting to them. The tutorial notes will include viewgraphs from both tutorial tracks. A box lunch is included in the registration fee. 9:00 +---------------------------------------------------------+ | PERL, part 1 | 10:15 |- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -| | [break] | 10:40 |- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -| | PERL, part 2 | 11:30 |---------------------------------------------------------| | Network Functionality | | | SNMP, BIND | sendmail 1 | 12:30 |---------------------------------------------------------| | - - - - l u n c h - - - - | 1:30 |---------------------------------------------------------| | Dynamic Routing Strategies | | | gated/egp/rip | sendmail 2 | | NTP (time Protocol) | | 2:30 |----------------------------|----------------------------| | Case studies: | | | SLIP | Ethics, patents, | | optimal NFS configs | privacy, security | 3:30 |----------------------------|----------------------------| | [break] | 4:00 |----------------------------|----------------------------| | Security: | question | | Kerberos IV | and | | COPS | answer | 5:00 +---------------------------------------------------------+ ******************************************************************* TENTATIVE TECHNICAL PROGRAM - OCTOBER 18 - 19, 1990 Thursday, October 18 9:00 - 10:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Steven C. Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute Keynote Address: Structural Revelation: Towards a Mythology of the System Anne G. Leonard, IBM 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:00 USERS, USERS, USERS ACMAINT: An Account Creation and Maintenance System For Distributed UNIX Systems David Curry, SRI International UDB - User Data Base System Roland J. Stolfa and Mark J. Vasoll, Oklahoma State University Gaud: RAND's Group and User Database Michael Urban, The RAND Corporation newu: Multihost User Setup Stephen P. Schaefer, MCNC UNIQNAME Overview Bill Doster, University of Michigan 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 PANEL: WHY DO WE KEEP RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL (AND WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?) 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:30 MANAGING OUTSIDE SOFTWARE The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation Across Organizational and UNIX Platform Boundaries Ken Manheimer, Barry Warsaw, Steve Clark, Walter Rowe, National Institute of Standards and Technology Guidelines and Tools for Software Maintenance in a Productional Environment Kevin C. Smallwood, Purdue University Computing Center Keeping up with the Manual System Kevin Braunsdorf, Purdue University Computing Center The Answer To All Man's Problems Tom Christiansen, CONVEX Computer Corporation Life Without Root Steven C. Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute Friday, October 19 9:00 - 10:30 TOOLS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR Trouble-MH: A Work-Queue Management System For A >3-ring Circus Tinsley Galyean, Trent Hein, Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado A Console Server Thomas Fine, Ohio State University Network Monitoring By Scripts Katy Kislitzin, Computer Sciences Corporation Using expect to Automate System Administration Tasks Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology Policy as a System Administration Tool Elizabeth D. Zwicky, SRI International Steven C. Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute Ronald E. Dalton, Industrial Technology Institute 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 PANEL: AUTOMATED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION - HOW DESIRABLE, HOW MUCH, HOW SOON 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 MAIL AND BACKUPS - OLD PROBLEMS WITH NEW FACES Integrating X.500 Directory Service into a Large Campus Computing Environment Timothy Howes, University of Michigan A Domain Mail System on Dissimilar Computers - Trials and Tribulations of SMTP Helen E. Harrison, SAS Institute, Inc. Backup At Ohio-State, Take 2 Steve Romig, Ohio State University The AFS 3.0 Backup System Steve Lammert, Transarc Corporation 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 5:00 WORKS IN PROGRESS, CLOSING REMARKS The registration fees are $225 for the tutorial and $200 for USENIX members ($240 for non-members) for the technical sessions. If you would like to obtain a brochure with full details regarding the tutorial program, technical sessions, and hotel, please contacts: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street Suite 613 El Toro, CA 92630 TEL 714-588-8649 FAX 714-588-9706 EMAIL: judy@usenix.org