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Training Program

LISA tutorials survey the topic, then dive into the specifics of what to do and how to do it. Instructors are well-known experts in their fields, selected for their ability to teach complex subjects. Attend tutorials at LISA '13 and take valuable skills back to your company or organization. New topics are woven in with old favorites to create the most comprehensive training program to date. Register now to guarantee your first choice—seating is limited.

A variety of topics are being covered at LISA '13. Use the icons listed below to focus on a key subject area:

  • Cloud System Administration
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  • Linux
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Follow the icons throughout the training sessions below. You can combine days of technical sessions or workshops with training sessions to build the conference that meets your needs. Pick and choose the sessions that best fit your interest—focus on just one topic or mix and match.

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Each full-day tutorial qualifies for 0.6 CEUs. You can request CEU credit by completing the CEU section on the registration form. USENIX provides a certificate for each attendee taking a tutorial for CEU credit. CEUs are not the same as college credits. Consult your employer or school to determine their applicability.

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Training materials will be provided to you on a 8GB USB drive. If you'd like to access them during your class, please remember to bring a laptop. There will not be any formally printed materials, but print-on-demand stations will be available

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Sunday, November 3, 2013

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
S1
Linux

Lincoln 2 Room

Rik Farrow, Security Consultant
Securing Linux Servers

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
S2
DevOps

Thurgood Marshall North Ballroom

John Looney, Google
New!
SRE Classroom: Non-Abstract Large System Design for Sysadmins

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
S3
Coding

Thurgood Marshall South Ballroom

Steven Murawski, Stack Exchange
Updated!
PowerShell Fundamentals

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
S5
Linux

Wilson C Room

Shumon Huque, University of Pennsylvania
New!
DNSSEC: DNS Security Extensions

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
S6

Thurgood Marshall West Ballroom

John Sellens, SYONEX
Nagios: Advanced Topics

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
S7
Coding

Thurgood Marshall South Ballroom

Steven Murawski, Stack Exchange
New!
Building Your PowerShell Toolkit

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
S8
Linux

Thurgood Marshall East Ballroom

Richard Elling, Nexenta Systems
New!
File Systems: Top to Bottom and Back

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
S9
Soft Skills

Wilson C Room

Michele Chubirka, Packetpushers
Joe Weston, Consultant and founder of Respectful Confrontation method
New!
A New Model: Advancing Organizational Security Through Peacebuilding

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
S10
Linux

Thurgood Marshall West Ballroom

David N. Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science
New!
Build a Sysadmin Sandbox
Monday, November 4, 2013

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
M1
Cloud System Administration

Wilson C Room

Shumon Huque, University of Pennsylvania
Updated!
Using and Migrating to IPv6

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
M2
Linux

Thurgood Marshall West Ballroom

Branson Matheson, SGT
New!
Hands-on Security for System Administrators

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
M3
Coding

Thurgood Marshall North Ballroom

Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd
Core Skills: Scripting for Automation

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
M4
DevOps

Thurgood Marshall South Ballroom

David Nalley, Apache CloudStack
Building a Big IaaS Cloud: Building a Massively Scalable, Geographically Disparate, IaaS Cloud Using Apache CloudStack

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
M5
Linux

Harding Room

Adam Moskowitz
Updated!
How to Interview a System Administrator

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
M6
Soft Skills

Thurgood Marshall East Ballroom

Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University
Carolyn Rowland, NIST
New!
Navigating the Business World for Sysadmins: The Trusted Adviser

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
M7
Linux

Thurgood Marshall North Ballroom

Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd
Advanced Shell Programming

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
M8
Cloud System Administration

Thurgood Marshall South Ballroom

David Nalley, Apache CloudStack
Chiradeep Vittal, Citrix Systems
Networking in the Cloud Age

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
M9
Soft Skills

Harding Room

Adam Moskowitz
New!
Getting to Senior: Sysadmin Level IV and Beyond

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
M10
Soft Skills

Thurgood Marshall East Ballroom

Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University
Carolyn Rowland, NIST
New!
Navigating the Business World for Sysadmins: Methods
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
T1
Cloud System Administration

Thurgood Marshall South Ballroom

Guido Trotter, Google
Helga Velroyen, Google
Updated!
Ganeti: Your Private Virtualization Cloud "the Way Google Does It"

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
T2
Soft Skills

Wilson C Room

Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group
The First Hundred Days

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
T3
Linux

Harding Room

Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer Services
Next-Generation Storage Networking: Beyond Conventional SAN and NAS

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
T4
Linux

Thurgood Marshall North Ballroom

Theodore Ts'o, Google
Recovering from Linux Hard Drive Disasters

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
T5
Soft Skills

Thurgood Marshall West Ballroom

Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
Advanced Time Management: Team Efficiency

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
T6
DevOps

Thurgood Marshall East Ballroom

Joshua Jensen, Sirius Computer Solutions
New!
Continuous Integration with Jenkins

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
T7

Wilson C Room

Jeanne Schock, Afilias
New!
Disaster Recovery Plans: Design, Implementation and Maintenance Using the ITIL Framework

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
T8

Harding Room

Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer Services
Backups, Archiving, and Life Cycle Management: Riding the Wave of Data Proliferation

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
T9

Thurgood Marshall North Ballroom

Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd
Documentation Techniques for Sysadmins

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
T10
Soft Skills

Thurgood Marshall West Ballroom

Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
New!
Evil Genius 101

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
T11
Cloud System Administration

Thurgood Marshall East Ballroom

Joshua Jensen, Sirius Computer Solutions
High-Availability Linux Clustering
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
W1
Linux

Lincoln 4 Room

Theodore Ts'o, Google
Linux Performance Tuning

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
W2
Linux

Hoover Room

Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Updated!
Root Cause Analysis—Beginner

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
W3
Coding

Washington 5 Room

Nathen Harvey, Opscode
New!
Introduction to Chef
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
R1
Coding

Madison AB Room

Dave Beazley, Dabeaz LLC
The Python Programming Language

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
R2
Linux

Hoover Room

Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
New!
Root Cause Analysis—Intermediate

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
R3
Linux

Washington 4 Room

Lee Damon, University of Washington
Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd
Seven Habits of the Highly Effective System Administrator: Hints, Tricks, Techniques, and Tools of the Trade
Friday, November 8, 2013

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
F1
Coding

Washington 4 Room

James Sweeny, Puppet Labs
New!
Introduction to Puppet Enterprise

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
F2
Linux

Lincoln 3 Room

David Rhoades, Maven Security Consulting Inc.
Steve Pinkham, Maven Security Consulting Inc.
New!
Hands-on Introduction to Common Hacking Tools

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
F3
Soft Skills

Lincoln 2 Room

Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group
New!
Combined MGMT-101/MGMT-201: Effective Communication and Team Leadership for Sysadmins

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