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From: John Bacall <info@nylug.org>
To: NYLUG-Talk <nylug-talk@nylug.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:50:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [nylug-talk] TODAY! NYLUG 15 November General Meeting Presents: Dan
Crosta on Trackle
REMINDER: This meeting is TODAY, RSVP closes at 4:30pm TODAY
Wednesday November 15th, 2006
6:30pm-8:00pm
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
12th Floor
** RSVP Closes at 4:30pm the day of the meeting (sharp!) ***
You must R.S.V.P. for *EVERY* meeting.
Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number.
Dan Crosta (Trackle)
-on-
Trackle
For part-time sysadmins a record of past actions is an invaluable tool
that provides guidance in repairing or extending system services.
However, requiring sysadmins to keep a detailed log of changes made to
a live system can often seem like a low priority task when compared to
addressing long and growing to-do lists. This problem is worse if the
system administrator is a part-time volunteer, an overworked student
or a harried administrator.
On this meeting Dan Crosta speaks on Trackle, an integrated trouble
ticket and solution tracking system which takes the legwork out of
creating and maintaining a sort of institutional memory.
Trackle is designed to allow untrained student sysadmins to bootstrap
their knowledge by peeking over the shoulders of their more
experienced colleagues -- even if those colleagues graduated years
earlier. This is accomplished by tracking the exact actions taken by
sysadmins, showing what lines were changed and in which configuration
files. This allows experienced and inexperienced sysadmins to freely
annotate and cross-reference shell session logs through an integrated
Wiki web interface.
As the Trackle team writes, here is a web- and console-based
integrated issue-and-solution tracking system. Where open issues may
be viewed through a web browser, freely annotated, edited and
cross-referenced with the built-in Wiki. Alternatively they may be
seen through a console interface, from which a tracked shell session
can be started. All actions taken in the shell session, and all files
changed, are recorded in the Trackle database.
Dan will present Wednesday 15 November from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Happy Thanksgiving!
For More Information Visit:
* There are a sadly few good resources on the internet about library
interposition, which is the _good juicy core of Trackle_. For
applicable overviews visit here.
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/lib_interposers.html
* And here.
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/curry.a
* As well as here.
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/curry.ps
* The Trackle homepage hints at some of the creators' goals in
designing Trackle.
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/trackle/
* Trackle is based on Trac, a bugtracker. Find what sets it apart
here.
http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracGuide
About Dan Crosta:
Dan is a Swarthmore alum.
Swag (Give Away)
During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given
away.
Stammtisch
After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's,
located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor.
Northeast corner.
Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org/ for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
stuff.
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Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
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