REMINDER NOTICE
MARUG SPRING MEETING
APRIL 19--20, 2001
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION FOR THIS MEETING GO TO MARUG'S WEBSITE AT
http://www.marug.org
HOTEL: HILTON CHARLOTTE UNIVERSITY PLACE
704-547-7444 OR 1-800-HILTONS
RATE: $109.00
Location Information: The Hilton Charlotte University Place
is situated lakeside in
the Charlotte University City Area, only 4 miles from Lowe's
Motor Speedway, 10
miles from downtown and 15 miles from Charlotte Douglas
International Airport.
Convenient location and easy accessibility to both business and
pleasure with an
exercise room, outdoor pool and lakeside jogging track.
AGENDA
Wednesday April 18, 2001
5:00am-7:00pm------MARUG Executive Board Meeting
5:00pm-10:00pm------Exhibitor Setup Early Registration
Thursday April 19, 2001
7:30am-8:30am-----Registration Registration
8:30am-8:45am-----Announcements Announcements
8:45am-9:45am-----Keynote - Future Directions of Hewlett-Packard-----Sami
Zarzour
- Hewlett Packard
9:45am-10:15am-----Break
10:15am-11:00am
Room 1: Superdome-----Julie Smith - First Union
Room 2: NETWORK: Citrix and Multi Platforms (1)
Art Forrest - Epic Systems Corporation
11:00am-11:15am-----BREAK
11:15am-12:00pm
Room 1: UNIX: Leveraging Oracle on UNIX---
Diane Forrest - Ballantyne Consulting
Room 2: NETWORK: Citrix and Multi Platforms (2)
Art Forrest - Epic Systems Corporation
12:00pm-1:30pm-----LUNCH
1:30pm-2:30pm
Room 1: UNIX: HP UX Kernel Tuning (1)---
Bill Hassell - Hewlett-Packard
Room 2: MPE: CI Variables on HP3000---
Al Dulaney - Southern Cross
2:30pm-2:45pm-----BREAK
2:45pm-3:45
Room 1: UNIX: HP UX Kernel Tuning (2)---
Bill Hassell - Hewlett-Packard
Room 2: MPE: Shell Scripting on HP3000---
Al Dulaney - Southern Cross
3:45pm-4:00pm----BREAK
4:00pm-5:00pm
Room 1: UNIX: Managing Databases on HPUX---
Janet Weber - First Union
Room 2: MPE: MPE System Configuration---
Steve Cole / Gerald Dillard - Outer Banks
5:00pm-6:00pm-----Networking Reception
Friday April 20, 2001
7:30am-8:30am-----Registration Registration
8:30am-9:30am
Room 1: UNIX: Oracle for SysAdmins---Bob Touart - Oracle
Room 2: MPE: Future Directions of HP3000---
Donna Page - Hewlett-Packard
8:30am-9:30am-----Networking: Procurve--Kevin Menges - Hewlett-Packard
9:30am-10:00am----BREAK
10:00am-10:00am
Room 1: UNIX: Disk Space and HP UX---Bill Hassell - Hewlett-Packard
Room 2: HP Hardware Performance---
Steve Cole / Gerald Dillard - Outer Banks
11:00am-11:15am-----BREAK
11:15am-12:00pm
Room 1: HP-UX Roundtable
Room 2: MPE Roundtable
12:00pm-12:15pm-----CLOSING REMARKS
NOTE: In the event that a speaker cannot attend we will attempt to have a
comparable
session available.
REGISTRATION:
Visit our website (http://www.marug.org) to register.
If you have problems or questions about registration please call Bob
Williams
at 540-463-8743.
Cost:
Thursday & Friday $170 befor 04/13/01 $190 after 04/13/01
Thursday or Friday only
$130 before 04/13/01 $140 after 04/13/01
Speaker Profiles
Keynote: Future directions o Hewlett-Packard
Sami Zarzour-HP
Sami is the sales Manager for the eastern geographical region and will
discuss
future directions of the various HP products.
Superdome Julie Smith-First Unions
Julie will discuss HP's new high-end server focusing on high availability
features
that are provides with a single box. OLAR (On-Line addition and
Replacement)
will be discussed as well as partition management and the flexibility that
cells
and partitions provided in a highly available environment. Julie Smith is
the
Lead Technical analyst at First Union Corporation and is scheduled to make
this
presentation at HP World 2001.
Leveraging Oracle on UNIX
Diane Forrest-Ballantyne Consulting Group
To achieve a proactive approach with Oracle performance tuning the following
elements should be monitored and tuned: memory, disk I/O, data
fragmentation,
initialization parameters and queries. There must be enough memory
allocated
to Oracle. The file system strengths and weaknesses need to be considered
when
planning an Oracle database to help minimize future fragmentation. Oracle's
initialization parameters have a major impact on performance in each area
previously
mentioned. Application and user queries not properly written can impact
performance
the most. Education the development staff with how Oracle optimizes queries
will have immediate and long-lasting benefits. Diane is a Managing
consultant
with Ballantyne consulting Group.
CITRIX AND Multi Platforms
Art Forrest-EPIC Systems Corporation
This session will address how and why Citrix will help any network. Art has
installed more than 100 Citrix servers nationwide and is NOVEL, NT, UNIX,
LAN/WAN
Citrix certified.
Managing databases on HPUX
Janet Weber-First Union
Janet will be covering what is necessary for an SA to know when managing
databases.
She will review a standard installation checklist for SA's, items from
release
notes, recommended kernel filesystem layout and maintenance, disk
utilization
and performance monitoring, backup consideration, and high availability
options.
Janet has been an engineer with almost 20 years of experience in software
and
database development, system and database administration and
validation/verification.
She has worked with many flavors of UNIX (HPUX, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, DGUX,
Ultirx/OSF1,
SCO, LINUX) and is currently employed as a System Administrator at First
Union
Corporation.
HP e3000 System Configuration
Steve Cole & Gerald Dillard---Outer Banks Solutions
This presentation provides the information necessary to unlock the secrets
of
SySGEN, NMMGR, and IOCONFIG. The presentation focuses on the structure of
the
system along with the techniques for adding, changing and deleting system
devices.
System devices, however, are not all that make up the system
configuration.
This presentation will examine configuring serial devices as well as how
system
boot options will affect the system configuration, along with configuration
and
network services.
HP Hardware Performance
Steve Cole & Gerald Dillard---Outer Banks Solutions
System performance on any platform is affected by a number of things. One
critical
area that is often overlooked but can have a significant impact on a
system's
overall performance is the hardware. This presentation discusses how each
independent
component can affect the overall performance of the system. It provides a
bottom-up
approach to hardware and discusses the information required to fine-tune the
system for maximum hardware performance.
Steve and Gerald are co-founders of Outer Banks Solutions. Due to the
quality
of their technical seminars, Outer Banks solutions was selected by HP to
provide
MPE/iX technical training to selected employees and customers at a number of
HP offices throughout the US.
Disk Space and HP-UX
Bill Hassell---Hewlett-Packard
Where did all my disk space go? How can I pick partition sizes for a new
install?
What's wrong with extending /usr or root? All these questions (and more)
will
be answered in the disk space seminar. We'll cover the reasons for growth,
how
to plan for it, how to monitor it and the best directories to move to other
disks.
We'll go over the two filesystems, HFS and JFS and how they affect disk
space.
And we'll go over a script that can monitor filesystems that grow beyond
preset
limits.
HP-UX Kernel Tuning Introduction Bill
Hassell---Hewlett-Packard
Kernel tuning sounds like some obscure artform so welcome to Bill's school
of
Kernel Magic. This paper will go over the concept of HP-UX kernel
parameters,
how to changes them and what the effect will be. A must-attend tutorial for
anyone who has an HP-UX system that's growing in size and activity. This
paper
discusses many of the common kernel values and their effects on the way
processes
run in the system. Values will be discussed relative to several possible
environments
such as a database server, a graphics-intensive design center, a program
development
group and a large scale application server.
Bill Hassell is a SysAdmin technology specialist working in the HP remote
engineering
Services Center, Atlanta. In his current role he delivers remote and
onsite
HPUX consulting for customers including customized training and support
projects.
Previously, he worked for Support Engineering Technology and also for the
System
Interrupt Team. Bill has been with HP for more than 20 years and is a
frequent
contributor to the HP User group conferences and publications.
Visit our website for current updates.
www.marug.org
PRESIDENT'S LETTER
The January meeting in Hampton, though not heavily attended, provided
excellent
sessions covering everything from SANs and High Availability to Disaster
Recovery
and IgniteUX. All speakers gave excellent sessions and were
enthusiastically
received. Our thanks to the exhibitors who tried our new "boothless" format
and for their continued support of our organization. Our next meeting will
be
held in Charlotte, North Carolina and we will have a full agenda based on
what
has been requested in the surveys. We have a variety of sessions covering
HP
future directions, Oracle management, system configuration & performance,
datacomm
and, at long last, a two hour session covering MPE CI scripting. We remain
committed
to offering the best value in professional, experience-based education in
the
area whether we have ten attendees or two hundred. As always, I urge you to
fill out the survey on our web page (no name or address requested) and let
us
know what you and your company require.
I hope to see you in Charlotte.
Greg Barnes
MARUG EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President-----Greg Barnes
Media General, Inc., 11451 Rochelle Road, Chester VA 23831
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- 804-649-6585, Fax: 804-649-6007
Vice President-----Chuck Zubl
Guilford Mills, 4721 Charlottesville Rd., Greensboro, NC 27410 [log in to unmask]
-336-316-4008, Fax: 336-218-7712
Secretary-----Melissa Badgett
6108C Hoskins Hollow Circle, Centerville, VA 20121 [log in to unmask] -
703-815-5273,
Fax: 703-815-5274
Treasurer-----Bob Williams
Washington & Lee Univ., 228 Tucker Hall, Lexington, VA
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-540-463-8743,
Fax: 540-463-8479
Past President-----Dennis Wright
Dennis Wright Assoc., Information Systems Consulting 3995 Rebecca Rd. -
Richmond
VA 23234 [log in to unmask] - 804-271-8015, Fax: 804-275-4265
Membership & Publications-----Dan Kesler
Ken Walters & Assoc 205 Mocksville Ave Ste 5, Salisbury, NC 28144,
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- 704-633-9996. Fax: 704-633-9822
Technical Program (UNIX)
Chris Shea, Timken - [log in to unmask] - 336-495-2619 (
Vickie Timms, First Union - [log in to unmask] - 704-427-0315
Technical/ Program (MPE)
Gerald Dillard, OuterBanks Solutions [log in to unmask] - 919-231-2171
Steve Cole, OuterBanks Solutions - [log in to unmask] - 919-231-2171
Technical/ Program (WIN)
Rick Saunders, Saunders Associated - [log in to unmask]
Exhibitors Liaison----0Diane Amos
Amos & Assoc., 633-B Chapel Hill Rd, Burlington, NC 27215
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- 336-222-0231. Fax: 336-222-1214
Webmaster-----Kelly Tomlinson
Epic Systems Corporation - 9777 West Gulf Bank Rd. Ste. B-900 Houston, TX
77040
- 888-395-3742 / Fax - 713-856-5252
Thank you,
Kelly Tomlinson
Epic Systems Corporation
Phone: (888) 395-3742
Direct: (713) 590-6670
Fax: (713) 856-5252
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Visit http://www.epicsyscorp.com
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