Enabling system evolution through configuration management on the hardware/software boundary

The Embedded Health Management Academic: A Boundary Spanning Role for Enabling Knowledge Translation; Comment on “CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System”

Healthcare organisations are looking at strategies and activities to improve patient outcomes, beyond clinical interventions. Increasingly, health organisations are investing significant resources in leadership, management and team work training to optimise professional collaboration, shared decision-making and, by extension, high quality services. Embedded clinical aca...

Simplifying System Management Through Automated Forecasting, Diagnosis, and Configuration Tuning

Simplifying System Management Through Automated Forecasting, Diagnosis, and Configuration Tuning by Songyun Duan Department of Computer Science Duke University

Enabling Performance Tradeoffs Through Dynamic Configuration of Advanced Network Services

Purely Functional System Configuration Management

System configuration management is difficult because systems evolve in an undisciplined way: packages are upgraded, configuration files are edited, and so on. The management of existing operating systems is strongly imperative in nature, since software packages and configuration data (e.g., /bin and /etc in Unix) can be seen as imperative data structures: they are updated in-place by system adm...

An NFS Configuration Management System

This paper describes an NFS configuration and management system for large and heterogeneous computer environments. It also shows how this system can be extended to address other services in the network. The solution is composed of a process that describes service configuration and management life-cycle, a modular architecture and an objected oriented model. The system supports multiple features...