WUG 10/25: Common Base Events

All JOG people are invited as always to the WUG meeting tomorrow.  It 
will be the last this year as the WUG normally break for the 
Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays.

I think that the topic has real interest beyond just IBM users, since 
CBE was originally proposed by IBM and Cisco Systems to OASIS to create 
an industry-wide method for troubleshooting glitches in 
complex-computing data centers involving multiple vendors.   Now it has 
been incorporated into the Web Services Distributed Management standard, 
in which BEA, Oracle, Tibco and others are involved.


Regards,

Don




Common Event Infrastructure

Wed. Oct. 25, 2006
IBM Building 500 Cafeteria
Research Triangle Park, NC

*Schedule*

6:00 p.m. Gather, Networking, Pizza and Drinks
6:15 p.m. Group Buisness
6:30 p.m. CBE / CEI, Greg Ackerman, IBM
8:00 p.m. Adjournment
*
* Admission is free of charge.  Pre-registration is helpful but not
mandatory (see below).

Problem Determination and Application Development with Common Base Events

Greg Ackerman will present a powerful set of problem determination
techniques for WebSphere Application Server that have gone largely
unnoticed by most WebSphere users.  He will discuss how Common Base
Events, an IBM autonomic computing technology, has been built into
WebSphere and other IBM software.  It is also an evolving standard that
is being adopted by the software industry, and can be used in your own
applications as well.  He will present and demonstrate how using this
technology can help you solve WebSphere runtime problems in less time
and with greater accuracy. Greg will also discuss how you can use this
standardized event infrastructure in developing your own applications.
*
Directions to the Meeting*

Distance from Raleigh (17 miles) / Durham (8 miles) / Chapel Hill (12 miles)

>From I-40, take Exit 280 - Davis Drive. At the end of the exit ramp, 
take a right (North) onto Davis Drive. Continue straight on Davis Drive
for about 0.5 miles. Take a right on Cornwallis road. Go about 1/2 mile,
you will cross over railroad tracks. At the IBM gate keep to the right.

If the rightmost gate is down,  press on the intercom button and tell
the remote guard that you are attending the WebSphere User Group
meeting, and give him your name. He will open the gate for you.

Our IBM host is Greg Ackerman - they may ask for his name.

Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli Building,
looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software Group." It should
be the third road on the left.

It can be a little tricky, so please allow some extra time the first time.

You will see a visitors' parking lot. Turn in and park, and walk to the
Building 500 lobby.   If that parking lot is not accessible, you would
need to continue on and park behind the building.

See http://www.rtpwug.org/sitemap.pdf
<http://www.rtprug.org/sitemap.pdf>  for a map.

Pre-Registration

We have implemented a pre-registration system for meetings. While not
mandatory for attendance, this will allow us to provide pre-printed
attendance badges at the door that will get you into the meeting more
quickly.

If you would like to pre-register,  please send email to [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>  with your

    * name
    * organization (e.g. company or school or self)
    * citizenship
    * date of birth (needed only if citizenship is other than U.S.)
    * email address

Please note that:

    * If you are a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or PR China (and not a
      permanent U.S resident with a "green card" or IBMer)
      pre-registration is mandatory, since your visit must be
      pre-approved. Please contact [email protected]
      <mailto:[email protected]> for details.
    * If you are NOT a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or the PRC (and not
      an IBMer or U.S. permanent resident with a "green card")
      pre-registration is NOT mandatory, but it is quicker: we will need
      to log the information above at the door, which might take a few
      minutes.
    * IBM staff with active badges can enter the building in the usual
      manner, without pre-approval or pre-registration.

If it's getting late, that's no problem at all.  Just show up and we
will make out a badge at the door.