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Work-Augmented Laziness with the Los Task Request System
Quotidian system administration is often characterized by the fulfillment of common user requests, especially on sites that serve a variety of needs. User creation, group management, and mail alias maintenance are just three examples of the many repetitiv ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 11:30 am
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Spam Blocking with a Dynamically Updated Firewall Ruleset
In this paper, we detail our methods for controlling spam at a small ISP, reducing both resource ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/mikula/mikula.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/mikula/mikula_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 11:30 am
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Holistic Quota Management: The Natural Path to a Better, More Efficient Quota System
protecting resources. This paper suggests a new management model based upon a holistic view of resources and ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/gilfix/gilfix.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/gilfix/gilfix_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 11:30 am
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Application Aware Management of Internet Data Center Software
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/mayer/mayer.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/mayer/mayer_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 12:30 pm
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Geographically Distributed System for Catastrophic Recovery
This paper presents the results of a proof-of-concept implementation of an on-going project to ... paper explores the tradeoff of using some common clustering techniques to distribute a backup system ... data replication solution used exclusively for data vaulting. The paper concludes with a discussion of ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 12:30 pm
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Embracing and Extending Windows 2000
delegation of control to departmental administrators as needed. This paper describes the systems we developed ... ://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/finkeWin2000/finkeWin2000.pdf http ... ://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/finkeWin2000/finkeWin2000_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 12:30 pm
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Stem: The System Administration Enabler
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/guttman/guttman.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/guttman/guttman_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 12:30 pm
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Pan: A High-Level Configuration Language
performance networking; object database management; security; global grid operations. This paper describes our ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers ... /cons/cons.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/cons/cons_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 12:30 pm
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Why Order Matters: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration
theoretical properties of computing. In this paper, we equate self-administered hosts to Turing machines in ... either more testing or higher risk for each host managed. This paper is a living document; revisions and ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/traugott/traugott.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/traugott/traugott_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 1:30 pm
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A New Architecture for Managing Enterprise Log Data
wait for faster systems to catch up. This paper discusses the issues involving large-scale log ... a combination of SQL and perl. The paper concludes with some lessons we learned in building the system. Adam ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/sah/sah.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/sah/sah_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 1:30 pm
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MieLog: A Highly Interactive Visual Log Browser Using Information Visualization and Statistical Analysis
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/takada/takada.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/takada/takada_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 1:30 pm
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Process Monitor: Detecting Events That Didn't Happen
to have the system detect them rather than your users! This paper discusses how we implemented ... ://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/finkeProcess/finkeProcess.pdf http ... ://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/finkeProcess/finkeProcess_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 1:30 pm
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An Analysis of RPM Validation Drift
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers ... /hart/hart.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/hart/hart_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 2:30 pm
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RTG: A Scalable SNMP Statistics Architecture for Service Providers
SNMP is the standard protocol used to manage IP networks. Service providers often analyze the utilization statistics available from SNMP-enabled devices to make informed engineering decisions, diagnose faults and perform billing. However collecting and ef ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 2:30 pm
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Environmental Acquisition in Network Management
relationships explicitly simplifies configuration management. This paper presents a declarative data ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/logan/logan.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/logan/logan_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 2:30 pm
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A Simple Way to Estimate the Cost of Downtime
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/patterson/patterson.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/patterson/patterson_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 2:30 pm
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Defining and Monitoring Service-Level Agreements for Dynamic e-Business
problems, this paper presents the Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) framework for defining and monitoring ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/keller/keller.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/keller/keller_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 2:30 pm
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HotSwap–Transparent Server Failover for Linux
://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/burton-krahn/burton-krahn.pdf http ... ://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/burton-krahn/burton-krahn_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 2:30 pm
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Over-Zealous Security Administrators Are Breaking the Internet
://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/vanderberg/van_den_berg.pdf http ... ://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/vanderberg/vanderberg_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 2:30 pm
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An Approach for Secure Software Installation
://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/venkatakrishnan/venkatakrishnan.pdf http ... ://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/venkatakrishnan/venkatakrishnan_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 3:30 pm
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Network-based Intrusion Detection–Modeling for a Larger Picture
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/totsuka/totsuka.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/totsuka/totsuka_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 3:30 pm
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Timing the Application of Security Patches for Optimal Uptime
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/beattie/beattie.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa02/tech/full_papers/beattie/beattie_html/index.html ...admin - January 1, 2022 - 3:30 pm
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Filters as a Language Support for Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Scripting Languages
in the actual code and complicates their maintenance in an application. This paper presents a general ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/coots99/full_papers/neumann/neumann.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/coots99/full_papers/neumann/neumann_html/index.html ...admin - January 4, 2022 - 11:23 pm
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Performance Patterns: Automated Scenario Based ORB Performance Evaluation
endsystem under realistic application scenarios makes this difficult. This paper introduces the Performance ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/coots99/full_papers/nimmagadda/nimmagadda.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/coots99/full_papers/nimmagadda/nimmagadda_html/index.html ...admin - January 4, 2022 - 11:23 pm
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Object-Oriented Pattern-Based Parallel Programming with Automatically Generated Frameworks
correctness and openness. This paper describes the highest level of abstraction in CO 2 P 3 S, using two ... http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/coots99/full_papers/macdonald/macdonald.pdf http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/coots99/full_papers/macdonald/macdonald_html/index.html ...admin - January 4, 2022 - 11:23 pm