Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems Administration and Infrastructure Architecture: References

References

[afs]

John H. Howard, Carnegie Mellon University, An Overview of the Andrew File System , USENIX Conference Proceedings, Winter 1988

[amanda]

Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver , http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/index.html

[anderson]

Paul Anderson, Towards a High-Level Machine Configuration System, USENIX Proceedings: Eighth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '94)

[athena]

G. Winfield Treese, Berkeley UNIX on 1000 Workstations: Athena Changes to 4.3BSD , USENIX Conference Proceedings, Winter 1988

[autosup]

Automatic Application Replication Tool , available from www.infrastructures.org

[blide]

A. Bhide, E. N. Elnozahy, and S. P. Morgan. A Highly Available Network File Server , Proceedings of the 1991 USENIX Winter Conference, 1991

[bsd]

BSDlite 4.4, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD Distribution Repository , http://www.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi

[burgess]

Mark Burgess, GNU Cfengine , http://www.iu.hioslo.no/~mark/cfengine/

Infrastructures.Org cfengine mirror site

The Infrastructures.Org cfengine mirror site syncs nightly from Mark Burgess's site in Norway.

[coda]

Coda Distributed Filesystem , http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu

[crontabber]

Client Crontab Management Script , available from www.infrastructures.org

[cvs]

Concurrent Versions System , http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/info.html

[dce]

OSF Distributed Computing Environment , http://www.opengroup.org/dce/

[depot]

Ken Manheimer, Barry Warsaw, Steve Clark, Walter Rowe, The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation Across Organizational and UNIX Platform Boundaries , USENIX LISA IV Conference Proceedings, October 24-25, 1991

[dns]

Paul Albitz & Cricket Liu, DNS and BIND, 2nd Edition , O'Reilly & Associates, 1996

[evard]

Remy Evard, An Analysis of UNIX System Configuration, USENIX Proceedings: Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), October 26-31, 1997

[hylafax]

Using HylaFAX as an SNPP Server , http://www.vix.com/hylafax/ixotap.html

[libes]

Don Libes, Exploring Expect , ISBN 1-56592-090-2, O'Reilly & Associates, 1994

[frisch]

Æleen Frisch, Essential System Administration, 2nd Edition , O'Reilly & Associates, 1995

[gartner]

Cappuccio, D.;Keyworth, B.;Kirwin, W., Total Cost of Ownership: The Impact of System Management Tools , Gartner Group, 1996

[hagemark]

Bent Hagemark, Kenneth Zadeck, Site: A Language and System for Configuring Many Computers as One Computing Site , USENIX Proceedings: Large Installation Systems Administration III Workshop Proceedings, September 7-8, 1989

[intermezzo]

InterMezzo High Availability Filesystem, http://www.inter-mezzo.org/

[limoncelli]

Tom Limoncelli, Turning the Corner: Upgrading Yourself from ``System Clerk'' to ``System Advocate'' , USENIX Proceedings: Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), October 26-31, 1997

[lirov]

Yuval Lirov, Mission-Critical Systems Management , Prentice Hall, 1997

[mott]

Arch Mott, Link Globally, Act Locally: A Centrally Maintained Database of Symlinks , USENIX LISA V Conference Proceedings, September 30 - October 3, 1991

[nemeth]

Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein, UNIX System Administration Handbook, second edition , Prentice Hall, 1995

[nis_watchdog]

Pull-based NIS slave maps manager, http://www.terraluna.org/dgp/cvsweb/isconf2i/bin/nis_watchdog?rlog

[ntp]

Network Time Protocol Home Page , http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/

[polstra]

John D. Polstra, CVSup Home Page and FAQ , http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/

[rabbit]

'rabbit' expect script for ad hoc changes, http://www.terraluna.org/dgp/cvsweb/isconf2/bin/rabbit

[rpm]

Red Hat Package Manager -- open source package tool, http://www.rpm.org

[rudorfer]

Gottfried Rudorfer, Managing PC Operating Systems with a Revision Control System , USENIX Proceedings: Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), October 26-31, 1997

[samba]

CVS Access to Samba Source Tree , http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html

[shafer]

Steven Shafer and Mary Thompson, The SUP Software Upgrade Protocol, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/public/sup/sup.ps, 8 September 1989

[stern]

Hal Stern, Managing NFS and NIS , O'Reilly & Associates, 1991

[stokely]

Extensive UNIX resources at Stokely Consulting -- thanks Celeste!!!, http://www.stokely.com/

[sup]

Carnegie Mellon Software Upgrade Protocol , http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/public/sup/sup.tar.gz, ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/management/sup.tar.gz

[turing]

Steve Traugott, Lance Brown, Why Order Matters: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration , USENIX Proceedings: 16th Systems Administration Conference (LISA '02), November 2002

[automated]

Steve Traugott, Automated Systems Administration -- draft minipaper about the need for a new job description beyond "Systems Administrator", unpublished

[bootstrap]

Steve Traugott, Joel Huddleston, Bootstrapping an Infrastructure , USENIX Proceedings: 12th Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98), December 1998

Checklist

Authentication Servers

Time Synchronization

Network File Servers

File Replication Servers