Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 520 pages
- Published by: Wiley
- Edition: 1st Edition January 15, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0470843853
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470843857
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Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
- Weighs: 2.7 pounds
Product Description
The emergence of network and System Administration, during the latter quarter century, as a discipline of science and engineering, has culminated in a number of paradigms for managing networks of collaborating machines. These include automatic regulation, policy based management, computer immunology, quality control procedures and even the psychology of the user-system interaction. Techniques based on scripting, declarative languages, empirical measurements, and theoretical models, spanning psychology to game theory have been developed.
In this volume, key contributions to the discipline are presented through the words of the authors who contributed them. The forum for this thread of ideas has been the USENIX Association's LISA conferences, originally the "Large System Administration" conference. These conferences have played, and continue to play, a unique role in cementing a relationship between researchers and working network and system administrators.
Computer scientists,engineers, system administrators and students will each find something of permanent value here. No matter what developments the future brings, these words represent important conceptual foundations of the field. These papers are reprinted here for the first time in a convenient form, along with a commentary reflecting on their significance within the discipline as a whole.
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The emergence of network and System Administration, during the latter quarter century, as a discipline of science and engineering, has culminated in a number of paradigms for managing networks of collaborating machines. These include automatic regulation, policy based management, computer immunology, quality control procedures and even the psychology of the user-system interaction. Techniques based on scripting, declarative languages, empirical measurements, and theoretical models, spanning psychology to game theory have been developed.
In this volume, key contributions to the discipline are presented through the words of the authors who contributed them. The forum for this thread of ideas has been the USENIX Association's LISA conferences, originally the "Large System Administration" conference. These conferences have played, and continue to play, a unique role in cementing a relationship between researchers and working network and system administrators.
Computer scientists,engineers, system administrators and students will each find something of permanent value here. No matter what developments the future brings, these words represent important conceptual foundations of the field. These papers are reprinted here for the first time in a convenient form, along with a commentary reflecting on their significance within the discipline as a whole.
Reader ReviewsComputer Systems Administration has been needed since shortly after the first digital computers were produced. And certainly, there have never been any shortage of SA books for major operating systems. A trend that has continued to this day. This book offers a different take. It presents SA issues common to many operating systems, from mainframes to PCs. Plus, it puts them in a historical context. Many of these ideas were first discussed at various LISA conferences over the last twenty years, when research ideas start to move into implementations. A virtue of the book is that it helps to put SA on a good founding as a coherent engineering discipline. Alas, most SAs have little appreciation of the broader scope of what they deal with, beyond the operating systems that they are currently managing. This book may help correct it, if any of those SAs get around to reading it. It's also a good read, from a career perspective. SAs are certainly aware of Moore's Law and the continually changing hardware and software they deal with. This book helps make clearer ideas that you can carry with you, as your environment changes. Makes you more adaptable. Evolve or die!
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