Bootstrapping an Infrastructure
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Systems Administration
Towards a High-Level Machine Configuration System
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th 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
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
Seeking Closure in an Open World: A Behavioral Agent Approach to Configuration Management
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Auto-configuration by File Construction: Configuration Management with newfig
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th 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
Planning-based configuration and management of distributed systems
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
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Most existing Unix system configuration tools are designed monolithically. Each tool stores configuration data in its own way, has its own mechanism for enforcing policy, has a fixed repertoire of actions that can be performed to modify the system, and provides a specific strategy for configuration management. As a result, most tools are useful only in environments that very closely match the environment for which the tool was designed. This inflexibility results in a great deal of duplication of effort in the system administration community.In this paper, I present a new architecture for system configuration tools using a modular design. I explain how this architecture allows a single tool to use different strategies for configuration management, enforce different ideas of policy, and prevent duplication of effort. I also describe the implementation of this architecture at my site and identify some areas for future research.