Are you responsible for computing systems owned by government or military agencies? Do you work in secure environments, deal wih classified data, deploy to military hotspots? If so, whether you are a sysadmin, contractor, government civilian, vendor or supplier, uniformed member, or someone with a hands-on support role in the government sector, this workshop is for you.

The general focus will be on system administration of U.S. government and military systems, but interested non-U.S. personnel are welcome to attend. Specific goals and topics will be solicited in advance from registered attendees in order to ensure a relevant and useful workshop. All discussions will be strictly unclassified.

To attend the workshop, please send email to lisa10ws-gov@usenix.org.

Workshop 2: REAL-WORLD CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT (Full Day)
B3/4
Cory Lueninghoener, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Narayan Desai, Argonne National Laboratory

This workshop will cover configuration management processes in real-world settings. The focus will be on practical tactics that attendees can directly apply. Attendees will discuss the issues they face in their deployments and will compare their experiences and tactics with other attendees'. This workshop is a tool-agnostic discussion of practical issues; the discussion will be widely applicable, regardless of the configuration tool used. The focus will be on practical tactics that attendees can directly apply.

The workshop will have two major components. The first will be a series of discussions on current topics of interest. These will be separated by two or three presentations by attendees of their configuration management environments, highlighting useful techniques and potential problem areas.

Attendees should be system administrators with a deployed configuration management system in place who want to talk with and learn from others on the subject. Tool developers interested in hearing the needs of their users and/or offering suggestions are also welcome, but they are not the primary intended participants.

To attend the workshop, please send email to lisa10ws-cm@usenix.org.

Knowledge management is probably the single greatest challenge for system administrators today, but one of the least represented in terms of resources and tools. Organizations waste time and money every year reinventing wheels because there is no effective knowledge transfer between IT workers.

Knowledge management includes a variety of issues, including the understanding of specification of systems, relationships between system dependencies, version control on system changes, strategies for streamlining information from logs and monitoring feeds, and more.

This workshop will discuss the scope and techniques for knowledge management in system administration. We aim to have a open discussion.

To attend the workshop, please send email to lisa10ws-km@usenix.org.

This workshop, intended for very senior administrators, provides an informal roundtable discussion of the problems facing system administrators today. Attendance is limited and based on acceptance of a position paper (plain ASCII, three paragraphs maximum); a typical paper covers what the author thinks is the most difficult or important issue facing system administrators today, why this is a problem, and why this problem is important. A more complete description of the workshop and information about position papers is available at https://atw.menlo.com/. Position papers should be sent to lisa10ws-atw@usenix.org. Attendees are required to bring a laptop computer.