[clug] Upcoming talk?

Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Tue Sep 19 00:17:44 UTC 2017


Thanks, Paul:

> 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?

I think that anything is better than nothing!
-- 
www.netspeed.com.au/bryan/



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