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Configuration Management: Models and Myths
- Cabbage Patch Kiss [HTML,PDF]
Usenix ;login: August 2006, Volume 31, Number 4
...In this series I want to talk about configuration management in system
administration from the perspective of a researcher in the field: this
is my cabbage patch, a topic that I have been interested in for some
fifteen years now, it is also a fascinating theoretical and practical
problem, which has been overshadowed in recent years by tool-talk and
XML incantations....
- Bable, Babble, Toil and Grammar [HTML,PDF]
Usenix ;login: October 2006, Volume 31, Number 5
Time to put the administrative house in order? Then you are going to
need a way of describing that house. Configuration management, as
discovered in part 1 of this series, is the management of resource
patterns. If you can't communicate a configuration pattern, you
certainly can't have someone create it, verify it, or maintain it....
- A Shocking Lack of Ad-hocracy [HTML,PDF]
Usenix ;login: 2007;31(6)
Ever since the late 1980s, the telecommunications companies have had
their own vision of computer resource management, borrowing from tried
and trusted inventory systems, for warehouse and personnel management,
and trying to modify them to cope with the computing age....
- There's no I/O without U: Economic Networking [HTML,PDF]
Usenix ;login:2007;32(2)
Computer operations are about communication. From the
question a user asks at the help desk, to the data received from a
router on traffic flow statistics, to the implementation of
configuration operations performed by software, administration is an
exchange of messages: messages about state, messages that communicate
intention and messages that implement change....
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