11th Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97)
Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97)
October 26-31, 1997
San Diego, California, USA
REFEREED PAPERS TRACK
Wednesday, October 29, 1997
Monitoring
- Implementing a Generalized Tool for Network Monitoring
- Marcus J. Ranum, Kent Landfield, Mike Stolarchuk, Mark Sienkiewicz, Andrew Lambeth, and Eric Wall, Network Flight Recorder, Inc.
("Best Paper" Award!)
- Extensible, Scalable Monitoring for Clusters of Computers
- Eric Anderson and Dave Patterson, U. C. Berkeley
- Monitoring Application Use with License Server Logs
- Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The Business of System Administration
- Automating 24x7 Support Response To Telephone Requests
- Peter Scott, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Turning the Corner: Upgrading Yourself from ``System Clerk'' to ``System Advocate''
- Tom Limoncelli, Lucent Bell Labs - Murray Hill, NJ
- How to Control and Manage Change in a Commercial Data Center Without Losing Your Mind
- Sally J. Howden and Frank B. Northrup, Distributed Computing Consultants, Inc.
System Design Perspectives
- Developing Interim Systems
- Jennifer Caetta, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- A Large Scale Data WarehouseApplication Case Study
- Dan Pollack, America Online Inc.
- Shuse At Two: Multi-Host Account Administration
- Henry Spencer, SP Systems
Thursday, October 30, 1997
Working With PCs
- A Web-Based Backup/Restore Method for Intel-based PC's
- Tyler Barnett, Lexmark International; Kyle McPeek, Aerotek Inc., on behalf of Lexmark International; Larry S. Lile, Aerotek Inc.; Ray Hyatt, Jr., Aerotek Inc.
- Managing PC Operating Systems with a Revision Control System
- Gottfried Rudorfer, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
- Bal - A Tool to Synchronize Document Collections Between Computers
- Jurgen Christoffel, GMD
Inside the Black Box
- Increased Server Availability and Flexibility through Failover Capability
- Michael R. Barber, Michigan Technological University
- The Cyclic News Filesystem: Getting INN To Do More With Less
- Scott Lystig Fritchie, Minnesota Regional Network
- Adaptive Locks For Frequently Scheduled Tasks With Unpredictable Runtimes
- Mark Burgess & Demosthenes Skipitaris, Oslo College
Net Gains
- Creating a Network for Lucent Bell Labs Research South
- Tom Limoncelli, Tom Reingold, Ravi Narayan, Ralph Loura, Lucent Bell Labs
- Pinpointing System Performance Issues
- Douglas L. Urner, Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Friday, October 31, 1997
Config Management
- Automation of Site Configuration Management
- Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Chaos Out of Order: A Simple, Scalable File Distribution
Facility For `Intentionally Heterogeneous' Networks
- Alva L. Couch, Tufts University
- An Analysis of UNIX System Configuration
- Remy Evard, Argonne National Laboratory
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Mail
- Tuning Sendmail for Large Mailing Lists
- Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
- Selectively Rejecting SPAM Using Sendmail
- Robert Harker, Harker Systems
- A Better E-Mail Bouncer
- Richard J. Holland, Rockwell Collins, Inc.
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