[Wolves] Talk for this week's meeting

[Dave Morley]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 13:29 +0000, Adam Sweet wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I said to Marley at the end of the last meeting that
> as I have some suitable hardware at my house at the
> moment, I can do one of a number of talks at the next
> meeting if he doesn't mind hanging fire for another
> fortnight with his own talk, as I can't guarantee I'll
> have the hardware in another 2 weeks.
> 
> I can do any of the following:
> 
> 1) What the f*** is IPMI (remote server management
> tool to replace an IP KVM and an IP PDU (Power
> Distribution Unit))
> 2) Managing your network with SNMP (it's not that
> hard)
> 3) Using Kickstart to automate installations
> 4) 10 minute guide to Xen
> 
> The IPMI one is completely server hardware specific,
> you can't buy off the shelf IPMI controllers for
> machines that don't support it (I may be wrong, but
> I'd be surprised) and not all servers do, so maybe
> this might be of limited interest, but it is
> interesting (to me at least). This is the one I
> currently have the hardware to demonstrate.
> 
> The SNMP one is partly written. This has a wider
> appeal I guess because we can all do it on any
> hardware, including your router.
> 
> I've been using Kickstart a lot this week to automate
> server installations, it's not that hard either. I
> could quite easily perform one in front of a live
> studio audience. Not much use though unless you have
> lots of machines to install quickly but you still want
> to be able to control parts of the installation.
> 
> 10 minute guide to Xen will probably be more like a 5
> minute guide to Xen and is best left until I can make
> it a 30 minute guide to Xen.
> 
> Alternatively, Marley, would you prefer to do your own
> talk, which you won't tell anyone the title of? It
> might help if you told people what your title was so
> we can decide which we would prefer and so people can
> decide whether they want to turn up.
> 
> Answers on a postcard.
> 
> Ad
> 
As I said to you Mr Sweet whilst you have the hardware do your talk.
Mine can wait yours can't.
Also how long would say the snmp and xen guide take?
-- 
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