Technical Sessions    Wednesday, Nov. 10 | Thursday, Nov. 11 | Friday, Nov. 12 | All in one file Thursday, November 11     9:00am - 10:30am REFEREED PAPERS Room 6A Thinking on the Job Session Chair: Thomas A. Limoncelli, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs A Retrospective on Twelve Years of LISA Proceedings Eric Anderson and Dave Patterson, University of California at Berkeley Managing Security in Dynamic Networks Alexander V. Kanstantinou, Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University; Sandeep Bhatt, and S. Rajagopalan Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming to Convergent System Management Processes Dr. Alva L. Couch and Michael Gilfix, Tufts University INVITED TALKS Room 6B Real World Intrusion Detection Mark K. Mellis, Consultant, SystemExperts Corp. As e-commerce and extranet applications introduce riskier Internet protocols, sysadmins need intrusion detection techniques in order to distribute security countermeasures on increasingly open networks. PRACTICUM Room 6C Budgeting for SysAdmins Adam Moskowitz, LION bioscience Research, Inc., and Gregory H. Hamm, GPC USA, Inc. This session will present the nuts and bolts--and pitfalls--of preparing a budget for the systems department: what to include in a budget, what you're likely to forget to include, how to justify the money you're asking for, what kinds of questions senior management is likely to ask when you present your budget, and what to do when they don't give you as much money as you wanted. 10:30am - 11:00am   Break 11:00am - 12:30pm REFEREED PAPERS Room 6A Network Infrastructure Session Chair: Greg Rose, QUALCOMM Australia NetReg: An Automated DHCP Registration System Peter Valian and Todd K. Watson, Southwestern University Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks - Switches, Gateways, and Authentication Robert Beck, University of Alberta NetMapper: Hostname Resolution Based on Client Network Location Josh Goldenhar, Cisco Systems, Inc. INVITED TALKS Room 6B The System Administrator's Body of Knowledge Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group The maturing field of systems administration to date lacks a formal understanding of the profession which organizations can use to assess their maturity and individuals can consult to plan their career development. The Systems Administration Body Of Knowledge (a.k.a. Taxonomy of Best Practices) project is working toward defining the duties and responsibilities of the profession and capturing industry best practices. This talk provides an overview of the project, the progress made to date, and the projected path toward the SA-BOK's goals. PRACTICUM Room 6C Inexpensive Firewalls Simon Cooper, SGI Presentation Slides Building inexpensive firewalls using low cost hardware, freely available tools and configuration time can be used to provide both Internet and internal security solutions. This talk will show how inexpensive firewalls can become part of your security toolbox. 12:30pm - 2:00pm   Lunch (on your own) 2:00pm - 3:30pm REFEREED PAPERS Room 6A File Systems Session Chair: Doug Kingston, Deutsche Bank Enhancements to the Autofs Automounter Ricardo Labiaga, Sun Microsystems, Inc. The Advancement of NFS Benchmarking: SFS 2.0 David Robinson, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Moving Large Filesystems On-Line, Including Exiting HSM Filesystems Vincent Cordrey, Doug Freyburger, Jordan Schwartz, and Liza Weissler, Collective Technologies INVITED TALKS Room 6B Building Internet Datacenters Jay Yu and Bryan McDonald, GNAC, Inc. How to plan and build datacenters from an IT perspective. Topics include: Basic and advanced requirements Trade-offs among wants, needs, and budget Working with construction contractors Building your own datacenter vs. co-location or other alternatives Building or campuswide infrastructure requirements and recommendations PRACTICUM Room 6C Ethics Lee Damon, Qualcomm, and Rob Kolstad, SANS Institute We'll start with a discussion of the ethics canons of various SAGE organizations and continue to an interactive bimediated debate on some practical ethical situations from the workplace. Raise your awareness of real-world ethical dilemmas and how to avoid them (or cope with them once they're upon you!). 3:30pm - 4:00pm   Break 4:00pm - 5:30pm REFEREED PAPERS Room 6A Systems Session Chair: Eric Anderson, University of California at Berkeley ServiceTrak Meets NLOG/NMAP Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Burt: The Backup and Recovery Tool Eric Melski, Scriptics Corporation Design and Implementation of a Failsafe Print System Giray Pultar, Coubros Consulting LLC INVITED TALKS Room 6B Approaching a Petabyte Hal Miller, University of Washington Presentation paper We know how to grow computing sites incrementally, aiming into the terabytes of storage. This talk discusses some issues involved in massive growth of online storage needs--to a petabyte and beyond.What questions need to be answered before designing significant expansion or a very large new site? What can be learned from others' experiences? PRACTICUM Room 6C NETA/LISA-NT/Security Highlights Speakers: David Williamson, GNAC, Inc. Gerald W. Carter, Auburn University Greg Rose, Qualcomm Australia Security Highlights slides Wednesday Technical Sessions Friday Technical Sessions