Re: Tutorials etc at LISA

[Volker Wiegand]

Hi,

unfortunately I will not be able to attend the conference, but 
nevertheless I would like to raise a "strategic" question.

This is in connection with a question that has been posted to this list 
recently but went unanswered: "What about SuSE?" Problem is that SuSE 
has always been special, with YaST(1|2), with their very own use of 
/etc/sysconfig, with the differential SysV init logic and so on. The 
authoritative source of configuration often has not been the /etc file 
but some meta file plus SuSEconfig. Thus, in my former company (SuSE) I 
consulted only on using cfengine for limited, "non-intrusive" use. In my 
current occupation (Deutsche Bahn, German Railway) I haven't even been 
able to introduce cfengine at all (though I'd love to).

So, here is my question: has anyone ever been thinking of using WBEM as 
the execution layer between cfengine and heterogenuous systems (SuSE and 
Novell are moving to WBEM with SLES9, IBM is using CIM in Tivoli or with 
the SBLIM project, and even Microsoft has an implementation called WMI)?

I'd be willing (and probably be able) to contribute giving it a try, 
provided it does not conflict with the direction cfengine is meant to 
go. Any interest in discussing that any further???

Volker

Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:

> I shall be giving introductory and "advanced" tutorials
> on cfengine at LISA'04 for anyone who is interested.
> The advanced tutorial will go into how to use the newer
> features, structural stuff (methods) and organize
> files etc. (http://www.usenix.org/lisa04)
>
> Feel free to send me requests for special topics you would
> like covered. There is limited time (half-day tutorials)
> but I shall consider all requests.
>
> Is there also a need for a developer's BoF? 
> To discuss future development/other issues?
> Let me know who is interested, to see how big an
> event we'll need.
>
> M
>
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