Central System Administration in a Heterogeneous Unix Environment: GeNUAdmin
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
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
Beam: A Tool for Flexible Software Update
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
Depot-Lite: A Mechanism for Managing Software
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
How to Upgrade 1500 Workstations on Saturday, and Still Have Time to Mow the Yard on Sunday
LISA '95 Proceedings of the 9th 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
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
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The areas of machine configuration and software package installation and maintenance have been frequent areas of work in recent years. This paper describes a hybrid system developed to address both problems and more. The resulting system is designed to reduce the complexity of the administration of a large network of computers down to that of the administration of a few heterogeneous systems. In particular, this system allows machines to be maintained without ever having to manually change files on their disks. Systems can also be upgraded, installed from scratch, or recovered with a minimum of effort. The system described is designed to be extremely general and applicable to virtually all versions of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems.