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
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Most autonomic systems require large amounts of human labor and configuration before they become autonomous. We study the management problem for autonomic systems, and consider the actions needed before a system becomes self-managing, as well as the tasks a system administrator must still perform to keep so-called "self-managing systems" operating properly. To understand the problem, we implemented a prototype self-managing "IP address closure" that implements integrated DNS and DHCP. We conclude that the system administrator is far from obsolete, but that the administrator of the future will have a different skill set than those of the present, focused around effective interaction with closures rather than management of individual machines.