It's been less than 24 hours since I announced this list, and we've
already passed the 200 subscriber mark... Welcome one and all! I'm
looking forward to some very interesting discussions on this list.
If any of you are going to be at the USENIX conference in Anaheim
next week, I've scheduled a Network Automation BoF (Birds of a
Feather session, where folks interested in a particular topic get
together to chat about it) for Wednesday night, 8:30-9:30pm. Right
now, they've got us scheduled in Salon H, but that's subject to
change, so check the scheduling board at the conference.
BoF info:
Automating Network Configuration & Management
Organizer/Moderator: Brent Chapman, Great Circle Associates
Wednesday, April 13, 8:30 pm-9:30 pm, Salon H
What's the state of the art for automated network configuration
and management? What systems and tools are available, either
freely or commercially? Where are these issues being considered
and discussed?
Over the last 15 years or so, much of the research in the system
administration field has focused on automation. It's now well
accepted that a well-run operation doesn't manage 10,000 servers
individually, but rather uses tools like cfengine to manage
definitions of those servers and then create instances of those
servers as needed. In the networking world, though, most of us
seem to be still manually configuring (and reconfiguring) every
device.
Some URLs:
All scheduled BoF: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/bofs.html
Our BoF: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/bofs.html#automating
Conference info: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/
So, now that we're all here, let the games begin! ;-)
-Brent
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Brent Chapman <brent@greatcircle.com> -- Great Circle Associates, Inc.
Specializing in network infrastructure for Silicon Valley since 1989
For info about us and our services, please see http://www.greatcircle.com/
Network Automation blog: http://www.greatcircle.com/blog/network_automation
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