A Review of the Literature on Configuration Management Tools

Configuration management tools help administrators in defining and automating system configurations. With cloud computing, host numbers are likely to grow. IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offerings with pay-per-use pricing models make fast and effective deployment of applications necessary. Configuration management tools address both challenges. In this paper, the existing research on this topic is reviewed comprehensively. Readers are provided with a descriptive analysis of the published literature as well as with an analysis of the content of the respective research works. The paper serves as an overview for researchers who are new to the topic. Furthermore, it serves to identify work related to an intended research field and identifies research gaps. Practitioners are provided with a means to identify solutions to their organizational problems

Automatização da adminstração de sistemas Unix

Orientador: Paulo Licio de GeusDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de ComputaçãoMestradoMestre em Ciência da Computaçã

Synctree for Single Point Installation, Upgrades, and OS Patches

The combination of large networks, frequent operating system security patches, and software updates can create a daunting task for a systems administration team. This paper presents a system created to address these challenges with system security and ‘‘uptime’ ’ as the primary concerns. By using a file-form ‘‘database,’ ’ the Synctree system holds a full network’s configuration in an understandable, secure, location. This paper also compares this system with previously published works