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Topic:    Network Performance Evaluation:  Concepts and Practice.

Speaker:  Ed Fair
          Lucent Worldwide Services/VitalSoft
          Lucent Technologies
          Atlanta, GA

Location: Hewlett-Packard Building
          20 Perimeter Summit (Near Perimeter Mall)
          Atlanta, GA

Date:     Monday, February 5, 2001
Time:     7:30pm

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  Measuring and analyzing your network's performance can save you
  time and money by helping you identify and focus only on the
  critical components in need of tuning or upgrades.  Network
  performance evaluation is typically used to augment "red-light
  green-light" fault tools with more subtle and shaded information
  about changes in network and server utilization, intermittent
  errors, and application failures.

  Retaining your performance data over time will give you a
  baseline that will identify deviations and discrepancies that
  effect the overall "end-user experience".  Historical data will
  help you see and tactically react to what's changing in your
  network, and help you project future performance.   This will
  help you operate your infrastructure more smoothly and plan
  upgrades in a more orderly and focused way.

  The basics of performance evaluation in a network of Unix servers
  and Windows desktops are presented, with an emphasis on
  commercial-off- the-shelf applications.  Critical measurements
  using SNMP-, Probe-, and agent-based technologies will be
  compared and contrasted.

  efair@lucent.com
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Prior to the meeting, there will be an informal, non-structured
"guru" session open to anyone wishing to attend.  This will start
around 6:45pm in the meeting room, and we will have one or more
gurus available to discuss whatever topics/problems/questions the
attendees care to bring up.
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       Subsequent Meeting:  Monday, March 5, 2001;  7:30 pm
                  Topic: C/C++ Memory Management
              Speaker: Steve Tamas - Godesic Systems
                    NOTE: NO MEETING IN JANUARY
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For those who need some sustenance before the meeting, you will
find kindred AUUG spirits at "Fuddruckers" restaurant (240
Perimeter Center Pkwy) on Hammond Drive across from Perimeter Mall
and not far from the Hewlett-Packard building.  Drop in any time
after 5:30pm to sit around and chew the fat and indulge in some of
the Fuddruckers cuisine.  This is a chance for folks to get
together and exchange rumors, ideas, assistance, etc.
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 Corporate Sponsors:
    Hewlett-Packard Co.
    Pencom Systems
    Morris, Manning & Martin L.L.P.
    Home Depot
    Five Star Communications

Lindsay Cleveland   (auug@auug.org) 



Directions to Hewlett-Packard Building (20 Perimeter Summit)

                                               |  <- Ashford-Dunwoody Rd
                                Perimeter Mall |
                                               |
              ---------+-----------------------+  <- Hammond Drive
                       | X <- Fuddruckers      |
 Perimeter Ctr Pkwy -> |                       |
                                               |
           I-285                               | (Exit 21)
      =========================================+===============
                                               |               \
  Lake Hearn Dr -> ------------------+---------+                \ 
      H-P Building (very tall!) -> X |         |                 \  <-
I-285
             Perimeter Summit -> ----|         |
                                     |         |
Perimeter Summit Pkwy -> ------------+---------+--
                                               |
                                               |
  
Take I-285 (northern perimeter) to Exit 21 (Ashford-Dunwoody Road). 
Exit south (away from Perimeter Mall).  Turn right at first traffic
light (Lake Hearn Dr.)  Go one block and turn left onto Parkside Place.
Take first street to right (Perimeter Summit) and follow signs to "20" 
building visitor parking.  Take ramp down to parking garage.

                                     +-----------------------------+
                                     |                             |
           +===================+     |                             |
           | +-----------------|-+   |                             |
           | |                   |   |        Hewlett-Packard      |
Ramp ----->| |    Parking        |   |           Building          |
to         | |     Garage        |   |                             |
Parking    | |                   |   |                             |
Garage     | |                   |   |                             |
           | +-------------------+   |                             |
           |                         |                             |
           +=============+           +-----------------------------+
                         |
                         |
                         |
                         |
-----------------------------------   <- Perimeter Summit

From any level of the parking garage, take elevator to Lobby.  At main
desk there will be a sign-in sheet and directions to the meeting room.

NOTE!  When leaving parking garage, observe signs directing to
Ashford-Dunwoody Dr.  and/or I-285.  They will indicate you are to turn
RIGHT onto Parkside Place, go two blocks, turn left onto Perimeter
Summit Pkwy, and then left onto Ashford-Dunwoody Dr.  (If you turn left
onto Parkside Place, you will not be allowed to turn right onto Lake
Hearn Dr.)

Lindsay Cleveland   (auug@auug.org)