MVMUA Meeting 128

Metropolitan VM Users Association 128
THURSDAY
October 16th, 2006

Information Builders Corporate Headquarters
24th Floor - 2 Penn Plaza
7th Ave, and 32nd St.
New York City, New York
(Right above Penn Station) Note: You have to follow the security guidelines for Information Builders.

8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM	Meeting Opening - Bill Munson
9:15 AM	Rich Smrcina - VM Assist - Hobbit network monitor The corporate FTP server has gone down, an internal Web server isn't available, access to a remote site is failing. How do you know that these incidents occur, except when the phone starts ringing? These could be critical systems for the enterprise and you need to know when they are down. This session will discuss the Hobbit network services monitor. Hobbit is an open source application and can watch systems and the services running on them and can show you or alert you when they are down. The installation, configuration and reporting features of Hobbit will be shown, including how Hobbit interfaces with zSeries operating systems. Rich's presentation. 2,111K You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
10:15 AM	Coffee Break
10:30 AM	Will Roden - IBM - "Team Leading" Everyone is a team leader. Some have a team of many and some have a team of one. Regardless, you will never stop building team leader skills since there are many aspects to being a team leader. We will discuss several of the basic skills. This will include: planning, estimating, running a project, how to get out of trouble, and many more. Join us and we will focus on new skills and you will also receive many useful references to continue your study.
11:30 AM	LUNCH Break Lunch will be catered by Circa-ny
1:00 PM	John Franciscovich - IBM - CP - Useful Things to Know The z/VM Control Program (CP) - Useful Things to Know; Come to this session for an introduction to the z/VM Control Program (CP) and to learn about some of the things ("what') it does for you. After an overview of CP and how it uses disk space, storage, and devices, we'll cover starting (IPLing) your z/VM system, defining virtual machines, virtual networking, and various ways you can interact with CP. John's presentation. 736K You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
2:15 PM	John Franciscovich - IBM - CP - Under the covers The z/VM Control Program (CP) - Under the covers, Come to this session for a look under the covers at ('how') CP operates, including the steps it takes to IPL and shut down CP and how CP manages storage (memory) and processor resources amoung virtual machines so they can do their work efficiently. We'll also cover diagnostic information that can be useful for testing and problem determination. John's presentation. 899K You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
3:30 PM	Coffee Break
3:45 PM	Bruce Dailey - IBM - Perfkit enhancements Performance Toolkit for VM, The Performance Toolkit for VM is a prices feature that is pre-installed on z/VM V4R4 and V5 systems. This session will start with a brief background on the Toolkit and its uses. The remainder of the session will describe the reports that were added in support of large real memory in z/VM 5.2.0. This will include identifying which of the many new variables are most important to monitor. Bruce's presentation. 3,710K You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
4:45 PM	Questions and Answers and the IBM give away's.
5:00 PM	thank you very much. take care, see you next meeting.

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