What’s new? March 15, 2007
Posted by Phillip in : geek , trackbackOnce again, it’s been a while since I have made any posts on my blog that are worth reading. I have been head-down with work lately and it’s consuming all of my time. As for “what’s new?”, well… not a whole lot. I’ve officially been with my new employer for 7 months now and I’m still digging it. We are still trying to fill an open spot for a linux support engineer. Until we fill that, I am helping out in that capacity.
I’ve learned a fairly significant amount about AutoYaST in the last 7 months, one particular customer I work with uses it heavily in a very customized environment. I recently had the pleasure of converting the AY profiles to be compliant with the SLES 10 dtd. It’s worth noting that if you learn a lot about AY, you learn a lot about XML also. I have done some XML work in my previous life, but all related to Identity Management. I haven’t done as much identity management work recently, and I have to admit I miss it terribly. Somehow or another, I ended up being really “into” the whole directory services / IdM thing. This will probably sound odd to some people, but for me, directory services is fun! I’m not going to fret too much though, my Linux skills are paying the bills and I still love what I do, so there is no love lost. I’m also planning on taking a class on our soon-to-be-released Identity Manager 3.5 product, that will be a blast!
In addition to my pure Linux work, I have been working pretty heavily with our resource management product, ZENworks Linux Management. This is YANPTUXML (yet another novell product that uses XML).In additon to XML, there is a directory services (eDirectory) component and a database (Postgres or Oracle) component. Toss in tomcat and a file repository and you have a linux platform management architecture. My first exposure to ZLM was at Rackspace. I must say that I really enjoy working with this product. As is the case with any software, you have to learn the ins and outs, but once you do, it can be a life-saver. My main focus lately has been working with the next iteration of the product, which is currently in beta. I (along with a score of other people) have been tuning the different components (postgres, eDirectory) in order to maximize scalability in enterprise deployments. I am sure this will all end up in a white paper eventually.
What else? Well, I am headed off to BrainShare next week. For those of you who don’t know, BrainShare is a week-long technical conference that is sponsored by Novell. It features technical training on all of our products. This is my first time going so I am pretty excited! If I remember, I will post some pictures with my presently non-existent Flickr account.
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