Technical Sessions
Wednesday, Nov. 10 |
Thursday, Nov. 11 |
Friday, Nov. 12 | All in one file
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Thursday, November 11
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9:00am - 10:30am
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REFEREED
PAPERS Room 6A
Thinking on the Job
Session Chair: Thomas A. Limoncelli, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs
A Retrospective on Twelve Years of LISA Proceedings
Eric Anderson and Dave Patterson, University of California at Berkeley
Managing Security in Dynamic Networks
Alexander V. Kanstantinou, Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University; Sandeep Bhatt, and S. Rajagopalan Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore)
It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming to Convergent
System Management Processes
Dr. Alva L. Couch and Michael Gilfix, Tufts University
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INVITED
TALKS Room 6B
Real World Intrusion Detection
Mark K. Mellis, Consultant, SystemExperts Corp.
As e-commerce and extranet applications introduce riskier Internet protocols,
sysadmins need intrusion detection techniques in order to distribute security
countermeasures on increasingly open networks.
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PRACTICUM Room 6C
Budgeting for SysAdmins
Adam Moskowitz, LION bioscience Research, Inc., and Gregory H. Hamm,
GPC USA, Inc.
This session will present the nuts and bolts--and pitfalls--of preparing a
budget for the systems department: what to include in a budget, what you're
likely to forget to include, how to justify the money you're asking for, what
kinds of questions senior management is likely to ask when you present your
budget, and what to do when they don't give you as much money as you wanted.
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10:30am - 11:00am Break
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11:00am - 12:30pm
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REFEREED
PAPERS Room 6A
Network Infrastructure
Session Chair: Greg Rose, QUALCOMM Australia
NetReg: An Automated DHCP Registration System
Peter Valian and Todd K. Watson, Southwestern University
Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks - Switches, Gateways, and
Authentication
Robert Beck, University of Alberta
NetMapper: Hostname Resolution Based on Client Network Location
Josh Goldenhar, Cisco Systems, Inc.
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INVITED
TALKS Room 6B
The System Administrator's Body of Knowledge
Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group
The maturing field of systems administration to date lacks a formal
understanding of the profession which organizations can use to assess their
maturity and individuals can consult to plan their career development. The
Systems Administration Body Of Knowledge (a.k.a. Taxonomy of Best Practices)
project is working toward defining the duties and responsibilities of the
profession and capturing industry best practices. This talk provides an overview
of the project, the progress made to date, and the projected path toward the
SA-BOK's goals.
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PRACTICUM Room 6C
Inexpensive Firewalls
Simon Cooper, SGI
Presentation Slides
Building inexpensive firewalls using low cost hardware, freely
available tools and configuration time can be used to provide both Internet and
internal security solutions. This talk will show how inexpensive
firewalls can become part of your security toolbox.
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12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch (on your own)
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2:00pm - 3:30pm
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REFEREED
PAPERS Room 6A
File Systems
Session Chair: Doug Kingston, Deutsche Bank
Enhancements to the Autofs Automounter
Ricardo Labiaga, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The Advancement of NFS Benchmarking: SFS 2.0
David Robinson, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Moving Large Filesystems On-Line, Including Exiting HSM Filesystems
Vincent Cordrey, Doug Freyburger, Jordan Schwartz, and Liza Weissler,
Collective Technologies
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INVITED
TALKS Room 6B
Building Internet Datacenters
Jay Yu and Bryan McDonald, GNAC, Inc.
How to plan and build datacenters from an IT perspective. Topics include:
- Basic and advanced requirements
- Trade-offs among wants, needs, and budget
- Working with construction contractors
- Building your own datacenter vs. co-location or other
alternatives
- Building or campuswide infrastructure requirements and
recommendations
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PRACTICUM Room 6C
Ethics
Lee Damon, Qualcomm, and Rob Kolstad, SANS Institute
We'll start with a discussion of the ethics canons of various SAGE organizations
and continue to an interactive bimediated debate on some practical ethical
situations from the workplace. Raise your awareness of real-world ethical
dilemmas and how to avoid them (or cope with them once they're upon you!).
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3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
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4:00pm - 5:30pm
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REFEREED
PAPERS Room 6A
Systems
Session Chair: Eric Anderson, University of California at Berkeley
ServiceTrak Meets NLOG/NMAP
Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Burt: The Backup and Recovery Tool
Eric Melski, Scriptics Corporation
Design and Implementation of a Failsafe Print System
Giray Pultar, Coubros Consulting LLC
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INVITED
TALKS Room 6B
Approaching a Petabyte
Hal Miller, University of Washington
Presentation paper
We know how to grow computing sites incrementally, aiming into the terabytes of
storage. This talk discusses some issues involved in massive growth of online
storage needs--to a petabyte and beyond.What questions need to be answered
before designing significant expansion or a very large new site? What can be
learned from others' experiences?
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PRACTICUM Room 6C
NETA/LISA-NT/Security Highlights
Speakers:
David Williamson, GNAC, Inc.
Gerald W. Carter, Auburn University
Greg Rose, Qualcomm Australia
Security Highlights slides
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