Tracking Hardware Configurations in a Heterogeneous Network with syslogd
LISA '95 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on System administration
Automating the Administration of Heterogeneous LANs
LISA '96 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on System administration
Dynamic Reconfiguration for Grid Fabrics
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Automation of Site Configuration Management
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on System administration
An Analysis of UNIX System Configuration
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on System administration
A Configuration Distribution System for Heterogeneous Networks
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
An NFS Configuration Management System and its Underlying Object-Oriented Model
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
Bootstrapping an Infrastructure
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
Synctree for Single Point Installation, Upgrades, and OS Patches
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming To Convergent System Management Processes
LISA '99 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
Holistic Quota Management: The Natural Path to a Better, More Efficient Quota System
LISA '02 Proceedings of the 16th USENIX conference on System administration
Pan: A High-Level Configuration Language
LISA '02 Proceedings of the 16th USENIX conference on System administration
Environmental Acquisition in Network Management
LISA '02 Proceedings of the 16th USENIX conference on System administration
Seeking Closure in an Open World: A Behavioral Agent Approach to Configuration Management
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Preventing Wheel Reinvention: The psgconf System Configuration Framework
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
SmartFrog Meets LCFG: Autonomous Reconfiguration with Central Policy Control
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
Experience in Implementing an HTTP Service Closure
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
Configuration management at massive scale: system design and experience
ATC'07 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Configuration management at massive scale: system design and experience
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on network infrastructure configuration
Service combinators for farming virtual machines
COORDINATION'08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Coordination models and languages
Authorizing and directing configuration updates in contemporary it infrastructures
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Assurable and usable security configuration
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This paper presents a machine configuration system which stores all configuration parameters in a central "database". The system is dynamic in the sense that machines reconfigure themselves to reflect any changes in the database whenever they are rebooted. The use of a central database allows configurations to be validated, and correct configurations to be automatically generated from policy rules and high-level descriptions of the network. A permanent record of every machine configuration is always available and the system is extensible to handle configuration of new subsystems in a modular way. The paper includes a review of previously published work and common techniques for cloning and configuring workstations.