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Config: A Mechanism for Installing and Tracking System Configurations
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
Towards a High-Level Machine Configuration System
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
Extensible, Scalable Monitoring for Clusters of Computers
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on System administration
Automation of Site Configuration Management
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th 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
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Keeping track of the RAM, disk drives, and various SCSI, network, and display adaptors currently installed in dozens (or even hundreds) of workstations can be a nearly impossible task, particularly in environments where hardware is frequently "borrowed" from one workstation and moved to another, or where machines frequently come and go. This paper describes a novel method of using syslog(3) to allow the workstations themselves to log their current hardware configuration with a central host every time they boot. The application reuses existing tools wherever possible, and thus provides a good degree of platform independence. The programs work with nearly any UNIX system, and should be extendable to other non-UNIX (but TCP/IP enabled) systems with only modest effort.