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Monday September 27, 2004

shared lab ideas/tools/technology

I'd like to announce a set of tools we use in PTS and certain AS/CCC labs around the world to this blogging audience. I am not going to tell you they are really easy to setup and use in your lab but I hope in time we ca nget a communication thread going to end up with a set of Sun standard tools all labs use. This will promote sharing. I also really want to hear about what YOU use it; might be better than the we came up with and I'd want to use it !

The tools we use promote sharing for hardware use related to custoemr issues, that is we have a pool of hardware and engineers book it when they need it. I know some labs book hardware in blocks of time for testing bencharks and our booking tool can be to do that but is was not designed with that in mind.

The tools are documented on web pages and are:

Javalabtool -> A java gui booking tool with sybase back end

Consoletool -> A tool to access consoles

js_config -> A jumpstart tool to install and customise an operating system on a lab box rebuilding a customers configuaration

All have TOI's on http://pts-lab.sfbay/ under FaSt Access -> TOI

We also have other technology and ideas like webcams, remote power to allow better remote access. The PTS engineers wrote a lot of these and other tools. These such as diskomizer are on the web page http://pt.emea/

Even though you might want these tools please note I can't promise immediate access. js_config at the moment requires nis+ on the install server that you might not have.

But do let me have your ideas I'd like to hear from you !

( Sep 27 2004, 02:00:00 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]

Comments:

I do hope that you are aware that this is an external facing blog and that th emajority of the readers will not have access to the websites that you list. Alan.

Posted by Alan Hargreaves on September 27, 2004 at 03:08 AM PDT #