Selected papers in network and system administration
By: edited by Eric Anderson, Mark Burgess and Alva Couch.
Contributors: Anderson, Eric; Burgess, Mark, 1966-; Couch, Alva.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chichester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
Subjects: Computer systems -- Management.; Computer networks -- Management.
Description: xlvii, 472 p. : 26 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. A Case Study of Network Management 1; title: M.K. Fenlon; title: 2. Balancing Security and Convenience 3; title: V Jones and D. Schrodel; title: 3. Creating an Environment for Novice Users 5; title: J.M. Smith; title: 4. Priv: An Exercise in Administrative Expansion 6; title: E. Heilman; title: 5. Experiences with Viruses on UNIX Systems 8; title: T. Duff; title: 6. Site: A Language and System for Configuring; title: Many Computers as One Computing Site 17; title: B. Hagemark and K. Zadeck; title: 7. Tools for System Administration in a Heterogeneous Environment 30; title: R. Finkel and B. Sturgill; title: 8. Disk Space Management Without Quotas 45; title: E.D. Zwicky; title: 9. spy: A Unix File System Security Monitor 48; title: B. Spence; title: 10. Uniqname Overview 61; title: W.A. Doster, Y-H. Leong and S.J. Mattson; title: 11. The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation; title: Across Organizational and UNIX Platform Boundaries 69; title: K. Manheimer, B.A. Warsaw, S.N. Clark and W. Rowe; title: 12. Using expect to Automate System Administration Tasks 79; title: D. Libes; title: 13. Policy as a System Administration Tool 87; title: E.D. Zwicky, S. Simmons and R. Dalton; title: 14. Managing Program Binaries in a Heterogeneous UNIX Network 96; title: P. Anderson; title: 15. We Have Met the Enemy, an Informal Survey of Policy; title: Practices in the Internetworked Community 105; title: B. Howell and B. Satdeva; title: 16. Torture-testing Backup and Archive Programs:; title: Things You Ought to Know But Probably Would Rather Not 117; title: E.D. Zwicky; title: 17. Is Centralized System Administration the Answer? 126; title: P. Schafer; title: 18. Customer Satisfaction Metrics and Measurement 133; title: C. Kubicki; title: 19. Majordomo: How I Manage 17 Mailing Lists Without Answering; title: "request" Mail 139; title: D.B. Chapman; title: 20. Automated System Monitoring and Notification With Swatch 148; title: S.E. Hansen and E.T. Atkins; title: 21. Computer System Performance Problem Detection; title: Using Time Series Models 159; title: P. Hoogenboom and J. Lepreau; title: 22. Horses and Barn Doors: Evolution of Corporate; title: Guidelines for Internet Usage 177; title: S. Hambridge and J.C. Sedayao; title: 23. Towards a POSIX Standard for Software Administration 185; title: B. Archer; title: 24. Open Systems Formal Evaluation Process 198; title: B.W. Keves; title: 25. Customization in a UNIX Computing Environment 203; title: C.E. Wills, K. Cadwell and W. Marrs; title: 26. The Amanda Netw6rk Backup Manager 210; title: J. da Silva and 6. Guamundsson; title: 27. The System Administration Maturity Model - SAMM 222; title: C. Kubicki; title: 28. Towards a High-Level Machine Configuration System 235; title: P. Anderson; title: 29. Monitoring Usage of Workstations with a Relational Database 243; title: J. Finke; title: 30. A Site Configuration Engine 252; title: M. Burgess; title: 31. Availability and Latency of World Wide Web Information Servers 268; title: C.L. Viles and J.C. French; title: 32. Metrics for Management 287; title: C. Hogan; title: 33. Decentralising Distributed Systems Administration 295; title: C. Hogan, A. Cox and T. Hunter; title: 34. SLINK: Simple, Effective Filesystem Maintenance Abstractions; title: for Community-Based Administration 304; title: A.L. Couch; title: 35. An Analysis of UNIX System Configuration 312; title: R. Evard; title: 36. Wide Area Network Ecology 327; title: J.T. Meek, E.S. Eichert and K. Takayama; title: 37. Bootstrapping an Infrastructure 336; title: S. Traugott and J. Huddleston; title: 38. Computer Immunology 352; title: M. Burgess; title: 39. A Visual Approach for Monitoring Logs 367; title: L. Girardin and D. Brodbeck; title: 40. Accountworks: Users Create Accounts on SQL,; title: Notes, NT and UNIX 377; title: B. Arnold; title: 41. Deconstructing User Requests and the Nine Step Model 390; title: T.A. Limoncelli; title: 42. A Retrospective on Twelve Years of LISA Proceedings 400; title: E. Anderson and D. Patterson; title: 43. It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming to; title: Convergent System Management Processes 413; title: A.L. Couch and M. Gilfix; title: 44. Theoretical System Administration 428; title: M. Burgess; title: 45. An Expectant Chat About Script Maturity 441; title: A.L. Couch; title: 46. Peep (The Network Auralizer):; title: Monitoring Your Network With Sound 455; title: M. Gilfix and A. Couch; title: 47. Tracing Anonymous Packets to Their Approximate Source 464; title: H. Burch and B. Cheswick.