Dear All Most of you will know that I maintain a list of links that I regularly find useful for deployment & operations matters. The links are on this page: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/deployment/links.html I have just completed a refresh of the information and also revalidated links. New links that might be of interest to you are marked "<== NEW". For many areas such as storage and monitoring you will find better links and information in the wiki: http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Special:Categories. If you find any broken links or have suggestions of things that should be added please let me know. For news about what is going on in the various areas there are a number of blogs which you probably already know about with the aggregated blog here: http://planet.gridpp.ac.uk/. I encourage all sites admins to use the blogs as a way of sharing information about site news, updates and ongoing work... the blogs are certainly useful to me for picking up trends and current issues and concerns. If you check the storage blog today you'll see that Greig has posted information about registration for the SRM2.2 workshop in Edinburgh. Please register soon if you want to attend: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/827/. At the end of this month the HEPSYSMAN meeting will be at Imperial College and the focus will be on monitoring. You'll find more information here: http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/sysman/oct2007/main.html. The agenda will change shortly to spend more time on discussion of (and hands-on with) Nagios. Please register if you will be attending. The next UKI monthly operations meeting will be in EVO on Thursday 25th at 10:30 (this was originally to be Thursday 18th). The link to the agenda can be found in the Indico system here: http://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=338. The November meeting will be on 22nd Novemeber (this was originally 15th). Finally, if you are a sysadmin please do not forget to comment on the SAM availability charts that I uploaded last week: http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/SAM_availability:_July-September_2007. Many thanks, Jeremy