[ug-glug] Announcement: Next GLUG meeting, Feb 1st

Tue Jan 17 05:03:29 PST 2006

Hey there is something that should be talked about, blastwave.org... If people don't know how to use it and integrate it into their solaris environment then we should get that info out into our usergroup.

Maybe that could be a topic for discussion from the group at the February meeting, Tools for using Solaris more effectively, and I definitely think that pkg-get and Blastwave is huge there.  I wouldn't mind hearing if the community has any really good experience with other tools, such as a webmin or a clone running on 11.

I am currently working on bringing the m0n0wall environment over to Solaris, while dummynet's functionality (traffic shaping) can't be ported straight the rest of the environment can be.  And possibly a new traffic shaper module can be written for Solaris Resource Manager (If only I could afford it, wah!).  If you're not familiar with this huge enabling opensourceware check out http://m0n0.ch/wall/, it allows you to boot a standard PC (or a v20z in our case) off of the CDROM and turn it into a firewall/router/wireless auth server/traffic shaper, with real time traffic graphing (based on BSD at the moment).

Another topic that I've kicked around mentioning, so I'll do it now, is new ways in which Solaris 11's features can be effectively used.  Currently on my workstation I'm combining ZFS with Zones to make a packaging environment.  ZFS allows me to clone the Zone environment boot up a test zone, and install the package.  If something doesn't go right I simply use a ZFS snapshot to rollback the environment and rebuild and reinstall the package.  While Solaris 11 doesn't make this as easy as could be, and maybe I should RFC this stuff, I really wouldn't mind how other people use the Zone features in a production or non-production "alternative" way.  One area we are exploring right now is SAN based (boot environment and data) zones that are clustered, can we boot a Solaris zone between disparate hardware (15k, 20k, v880, v490s) will it work!???

Alec

-----Original Message-----
From:	ug-glug-bounces at opensolaris.org on behalf of James Dickens
Sent:	Tue 1/17/2006 2:58 AM
To:	Art.S
Cc:	ug-glug at opensolaris.org
Subject:	Re: [ug-glug] Announcement: Next GLUG meeting, Feb 1st

On 1/16/06, Art.S <asauced at comcast.net> wrote:
> We need to communicate with the local IBM testing team in this regard.  I
> will work on trying to get input from IBM corp.
>
> -Art.S.

sorry, but I don't beleve that IBM is at all involved in the Polaris
project. Most of the work is done by the people at  www.blastware.org.

James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chip Bennett" <cbennett at laurustech.com>
> To: "Art.S" <asauced at comcast.net>
> Cc: <ug-glug at opensolaris.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 10:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [ug-glug] Announcement: Next GLUG meeting, Feb 1st
>
>
> > Is there anyone local that could talk about Polaris?
> >
> > Chip
> >
> > Art.S wrote:
> >
> >> Good - We have something. http://svn.genunix.org/repos/
> >> PowerPC forum team leaders  as well The Polaris observer community should
> >> be invited and welcomed to join us.
> >> Art.S
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Boutilier"
> >> <boutilier at speakeasy.net>
> >> Cc: <ug-glug at opensolaris.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 5:29 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [ug-glug] Announcement: Next GLUG meeting, Feb 1st
> >>
> >>
> >>> Chip Bennett wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Assuming Polaris _does_ refer to OpenSolaris on PowerPC, this is
> >>>> certainly applicable to GLUG: it's OpenSolaris.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> All -- for more info about what we're referring to here, see:
> >>>
> >>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/
> >>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/discussions/
> >>>
> >>> Eric
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> The Cisco package seems like kind of a reach to me, unless there is
> >>>> some specific relationship to OpenSolaris that can be addressed.
> >>>>
> >>>> Chip
> >>>>
> >>>> Eric Boutilier wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Art.S wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> A few suggestions for 2006 upcoming events. (I know that "code" is
> >>>>>> what we are concern with, but, can we have intermediary exceptions
> >>>>>> from time-to-time)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sun has partnership with many vendors, and guess what, CISCO is one
> >>>>>> of them; Question: why can we invite CISCO support speakers come to
> >>>>>> some of our monthly meetings, this could make it more interesting and
> >>>>>> challenging for the OPENSOLARIS community, after all CISCO, IBM, and
> >>>>>> Sun are now one big family.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> For example, have some day a CISCO speaker specifically for the Cisco
> >>>>>> Media Gateway Control Node Manager. And in a future meetings invite
> >>>>>> IBM representatives with their newly POLARIS project.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We must never run of ideas and pathways to solutions, one way to do
> >>>>>> this is by keeping our organizational meetings interesting from
> >>>>>> beginning until end.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Art.S
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi Art,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks for the suggestions. Keep 'em coming.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My thoughts...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It seems to me that code is just one of many things GLUG is concerned
> >>>>> with.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On the question of having presentations outside the realm of UNIX and
> >>>>> UNIX-like operating systems by arbitrary Sun partners, I personally
> >>>>> feel that's getting a bit too far afield.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Just my 2 cents though.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> By the way, I don't  know what IBM's POLARIS project is... You're not
> >>>>> talking about the OpenSolaris on PowerPC community project are you?
> >>>>> It's also called Polaris.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> Eric
> >>>>>
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