The Arusha Project: A Framework for Collaborative UNIX System Administration
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th 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
Large scale Linux configuration with LCFG
ALS'00 Proceedings of the 4th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 4
PoDIM: a language for high-level configuration management
LISA'07 Proceedings of the 21st conference on Large Installation System Administration Conference
Configuration management at massive scale: system design and experience
ATC'07 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Configuration management at massive scale: system design and experience
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on network infrastructure configuration
Federated access control and workflow enforcement in systems configuration
LISA'09 Proceedings of the 23rd conference on Large installation system administration
A survey of system configuration tools
LISA'10 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Large installation system administration
Integrated management of network and security devices in IT infrastructures
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Network and Services Management
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Since the LISA conferences began, the character of a typical "large installation" has changed greatly. Most large sites tended to consist of a comparatively small number of handcrafted "servers" supporting a larger number of very similar "clients" (which would usually be configured with the aid of some automatic tool). A modern large site involves a more complex mesh of services, often with demanding requirements for completely automatic reconfiguration of entire services to provide fault-tolerance. As these changes have happened however, the tools available to provide configuration management for a site have not evolved to keep pace with these new challenges. This paper looks at some of the reasons why configuration tools have failed to move forward, and presents some suggestions for enabling the state of the art to advance.