[clug] Upcoming talk?

Brenton Ross rossb at fwi.net.au
Mon Sep 18 14:42:07 UTC 2017


Sounds interesting.

Love the project name - guaranteed to get lost in business waffle in any
web search.

On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 22:59 +1000, Paul Wayper via linux wrote:

> On 18/09/17 17:03, George at Clug via linux wrote:
> > Anything planned for this month?
> 
> I'm happy to give a talk about an Open Source project I'm working on at Red
> Hat called Insights.
> 
> Insights is basically a way of automating 'situation' detection on Linux
> computers.  'Situation' here is fairly broad - it can be anything from 'you
> have a package with a known vulnerability listening on an open port' to 'you
> have this hardware, which is incompatible with this setting in the software
> you're running' to 'it looks like you can get more performance out of your
> database if you set this setting here'.  The main repository:
> 
> https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-core
> 
> is open source and my current work is on getting a 'demo' set of rules open
> sourced (mainly for lack of ideas rather than will).
> 
> This would be a more technical talk, looking at how you write rules in Python
> for Insights, but I'm happy to spend a lot of time in Q&A covering what
> Insights is, what it isn't, how it can help and how it isn't going to put
> technical support people out of a job :-)
> 
> Is that interesting to anyone?
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Paul
> 




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