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March 29, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Continuing Open Source Stack Troubleshooting

TAGS: Open Source

Next week LinuxWorld Boston will be hosted at the Boston Convention and Exhibits Center. It's a great chance to pick up on the thread of troubleshooting Open Source stacks. There are several tutorials and talks at LinuxWorld that you probably will want to check out if you're working with Open Source technologies in your data center. Here are some of the sessions I'll be attending.

• 1. Patrick McGovern will be conducting a Hands on Lab on Working with Log Files.
• 2. Alan Boda will be presenting a detective's delight, finding the root cause of a Linux system crash.
• 3. Anil Vasudevan and Kevin Cassidy of Intel are covering a cool new way to optimizes the data movement across all elements of the server including the CPU, chipset, network controller, and operating system software.
• 4. James Schweitzer of IBM's Global Services will be discussing Linux Enterprise Provisioning, Management, and Monitoring.
• 5. I will be hosting a talk about Troubleshooting Linux and the Open Source Software Stack.

If you've found an interesting session you're attending email me at thebaum@splunk.com.

Posted by Michael Baum on March 29, 2006 11:12 AM

March 08, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Where to Start Troublshooting Your Open Source Stack

TAGS: Open Source

I've received a number of emails on the chatter about certified Open Source stacks versus specific Open Source deployments. Which ever direction you decide to go you will need the ability to figure out what is going on with all those Open Source stack components. As a primer you'll need to understand what's happening at the base of the stack starting with the operating system.

Today I ran across a handy resource for beginners and experts alike to help you understand where to begin troubleshooting problems with Linux. This is a guide to basic, and not so basic troubleshooting and debugging on linux systems. The guide includes suggestions on where to start diagnosing problems, description and usage of common tools, how to find information, and what to do with that information.

Check it out, its a great resource on the facilities and tips and tricks to troubleshooting Linux.

If you have other favorite resources for Linux troubleshooting write me at thebaum@splunk.com.

Posted by Michael Baum on March 8, 2006 03:20 AM