Programming perl
MIT project Athena: a model for distributed campus computing
MIT project Athena: a model for distributed campus computing
Simplifying System Administration Tasks: The UAMS Approach
LISA '93 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on System administration
AGUS: An Automatic Multi-Platform Account Generation System
LISA '95 Proceedings of the 9th 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
An Improved Approach for Generating Configuration Files from a Database
LISA '00 Proceedings of the 14th USENIX conference on System administration
Pelendur: Steward of the Sysadmin
LISA '00 Proceedings of the 14th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '00 Proceedings of the 14th USENIX conference on System administration
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Managing a computing environment consisting of hundreds of systems from multiple vendors and hundreds of users dispersed over several buildings of a research campus is a complex task. We developed a data model for representing pertinent information about our computing environment and implemented this model in a database that tracks equipment, users, and accounts. We created software that automates much of the data collection, maintains the database, and provides easy access to commonly requested information. For example, a user can find out which hosts he or she has an account on, or learn the hardware and software configuration of any host on the local network. We also created software that automates many of the tasks involved in account creation, deletion, and modification, which reduces the burden on support staff by allowing privileged users to manage accounts on their own systems.