Distributed resource administration using Cfengine
Software—Practice & Experience
Programming Language Syntax and Semantics
Programming Language Syntax and Semantics
XML in a nutshell
Towards a High-Level Machine Configuration System
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
SLINK: Simple, Effective Filesystem Maintenance Abstractions for Community-Based Administration
LISA '96 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on System administration
Bootstrapping an Infrastructure
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
Theoretical System Administration
LISA '00 Proceedings of the 14th USENIX conference on System administration
An Expectant Chat About Script Maturity
LISA '00 Proceedings of the 14th 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
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
The Maelstrom: Network Service Debugging via "Ineffective Procedures"
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
Global Impact Analysis of Dynamic Library Dependencies
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
TemplateTree II: The Post-Installation Setup Tool
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
The Arusha Project: A Framework for Collaborative UNIX System Administration
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
Pan: A High-Level Configuration Language
LISA '02 Proceedings of the 16th USENIX conference on System administration
Why Order Matters: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration
LISA '02 Proceedings of the 16th USENIX conference on System administration
An Analysis of RPM Validation Drift
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
STRIDER: A Black-box, State-based Approach to Change and Configuration Management and Support
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Virtual Appliances for Deploying and Maintaining Software
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Generating Configuration Files: The Director's Cut
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
Experience in Implementing an HTTP Service Closure
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
PoDIM: a language for high-level configuration management
LISA'07 Proceedings of the 21st conference on Large Installation System Administration Conference
AIMS '08 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security: Resilient Networks and Services
Dynamics of Resource Closure Operators
AIMS '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security: Scalability of Networks and Services
Management without (Detailed) Models
ATC '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing
Combining Learned and Highly-Reactive Management
MACE '09 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments
A survey of system configuration tools
LISA'10 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Large installation system administration
Troubleshooting with human-readable automated reasoning
LISA'10 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Large installation system administration
What a webserver can learn from a zebra and what we learned in the process
CHIMIT '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology
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We present a new model of configuration management based upon a hierarchy of simple communicating autonomous agents. Each of these agents is responsible for a "closure": a domain of "semantic predictability" in which declarative commands to the agent have a simple, persistent, portable, and documented effect upon subsequent observable behavior. Closures are built bottom-up to form a management hierarchy based upon the pre-existing dependencies between subsystems in a complex system. Closure agents decompose configuration management via a modularity of effect and behavior that promises to eventually lead to self-organizing systems driven entirely by behavioral specifications, where a system's configuration is free of details that have no observable effect upon system.