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Software—Practice & Experience
Programming the Perl DBI
Automating Printing Configuration
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
Institute White Pages as a System Administration Problem
LISA '96 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on System administration
Monitoring Application Use with License Server Logs
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
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
Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks - Switches, Gateways, and Authentication
LISA '99 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on System administration
Pan: A High-Level Configuration Language
LISA '02 Proceedings of the 16th USENIX conference on System administration
SSH: secure login connections over the internet
SSYM'96 Proceedings of the 6th conference on USENIX Security Symposium, Focusing on Applications of Cryptography - Volume 6
Driving by the rear-view mirror: managing a network with cricket
NETA'99 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Conference on Network Administration - Volume 1
autoMAC: A Tool for Automating Network Moves, Adds, and Changes
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
Open network administrator (ONA): a web-based network management tool
LISA '05 Proceedings of the 19th conference on Large Installation System Administration Conference - Volume 19
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We present the design and implementation of Splat, a tool for managing network edge switch ports and port-to-host configurations. We discuss the need for such a tool as part of a major network upgrade, and our discovery that most existing tools ignore this area or approach it from a core network point of view.Important design considerations include the current procedures and habits of our system administration team, using open source components, and the tool's incremental development and deployment. In particular, the requirement for accurate configuration information in a database proves to be an effective means of enforcing correct procedures.Splat enables us to administer an increasingly complex network by providing a simple interface for routine tasks as well as better diagnostics, reporting, and monitoring. Its reliable configuration management enhances the security and performance of our network.