January chigrp Meeting: Building Unix Machines

["Carolyn M. Hennings" <cmh@colltech.com>]

Join us at our next meeting where there will be an informative
presentation on:

 Building Unix Machines:
 The Ins and Outs of the HP-UX, SD-UX,
 and Solaris Jumpstart Tools  

 Thursday, January 14th
 7:00 - 9:00 pm

 ACNielsen Building
 150 North Martingale,
 Schaumburg IL


Abstract

If you have ever rebuilt a machine from scratch, you know the
headaches of getting everything just right. You must remember
everything you did before. All  of the little tweaks must be
put back in the right spot for everything to work right again.

If you have more than a couple of machines to build, and they
all need to be built the same way, you know it can be a very
time-consuming process. If it's manual, steps are bound to be
missed, causing additional work in the future.

Both HP and Sun provide ways of incorporating the little tweaks
into a system that automatically installs those customizations
when building a unix workstation.  These automatic systems then
allow you to build a large number of machines automatically in a
short period of time. 


About the Speaker

Lewis Muhlenkamp has been a system administrator full-time for
the past 6 years and part time for 5 years before that.  He has
been working for Motorola for the past 5 years.  His main tasks
have been front-line support, migration of HP-UX 9 to HP-UX 10,
migration of HP-UX 9 to Solaris 2.6 and now working on y2k, just
like everyone else.  He currently helps support approximately
1500 machines and 750 users.


Socializing

Following the presentation we will gather at Bennigan's at the
intersection of Higgins and Martingale. 

chigrp Web Site
        
  http://www.usenix.org/sage/locals/chigrp/

Directions

Located at 150 North Martingale Road, Between Higgins and Biesterfield,
just off of I-290/Route 53.

>From the South:

Exit I-290/Route 53 at Biesterfield, turn left (West) on Biesterfield. Turn
right (North) on Martingale Road. Proceed North on Martingale Road, past
stoplight at Schaumburg Road. Turn left (West) at ACNielsen sign (after
the Schaumburg Marriott Hotel).

>From the North:

Exit I-290/Route 53 at Higgins, turn right (West) on Higgins. Turn left
(South) on Martingale Road.  Proceed South on Martingale Road, past
stoplight at Corporate Crossing. Turn right (West) at ACNielsen sign
(before the Schaumburg Marriott Hotel).

Parking:

Parking is available in the parking a garage to the rear of the facility.
After parking take the elevator or stairs to the 2nd floor, then take the
walkway into the building lobby. Check in at  the ACNielsen desk, mention
you are with SAGE/chigrp, and you will be directed to the conference room
for the meeting.