[Wolves] Talk for this week's meeting

[James Turner]

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

My order of preference would be:

1 - IPMI
2 - SNMP
3 - Xen
4 - Kickstart

I know almost nothing about IPMI (yet!) but it sounds highly useful.
Being a Nagios enthusiast I'd always be keen to hear all about SNMP of
course!

Regards,

James