[lug] BLUG Meeting Announcement 2011-03-10

Boulder Linux boulderlinux at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 10:24:16 MST 2011


    http://lug.boulder.co.us/calendar.html

The March Boulder Linux User Group meeting is coming up.

   Talk : Resistance is Futile - Easy to use cloud-scale monitoring with the Assimilation Monitoring project

Speaker : Alan Robertson

   When : 7 p.m. on Thu, Mar 10, 2011 

  Where : Aztek Networks, 2477 55th St, Suite 202, Boulder, CO.

          Aztek Networks is on 55th between Arapahoe and Pearl, just
          north of the Humane Society.  There's plenty of parking, and
          the 206 and 208 busses stop across the street.

    Map : http://lug.boulder.co.us/meetings.html

Summary of 'Resistance is Futile - Easy to use cloud-scale monitoring with the Assimilation Monitoring project'
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The Assimilation monitoring project is a new open source data center
monitoring project designed to be easy to install and configure, and scale
to tens of thousands of servers.

It employs a new O(1) server monitoring method, and implements a "no news
is good news" policy.  Most systems will run a centrally-configured
low-overhead nanoprobe, which report back only when problems occur.  A small
number of systems (NetApps, UPSes, and so on) cannot run the probe software,
and will be monitored by the other systems with nanoprobes - distributing
out the monitoring load evenly across these other systems.

These nanoprobes discover local server configuration, local switch
configuration and the presence of other servers in the network - avoiding
using security-unfriendly port scanning or similar techniques.

Another novel aspect of the system is that in addition to being highly
scalable in terms of maximum size, it is highly network-topology aware -
with less than 1% of traffic going outside the local (top of rack or other)
switches.
This project is at a early development stage with about 6500
well-documented lines of code currently written.  It is expected to be
usable in early production sites in the next few months.


Pre meeting food
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Please join us informally for a bite to eat at Panera Bread before the
meeting, around 5:30 P.M.  Panera is in the 29th street mall, east of
Highway 36/28th street near Walnut.


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