Research on System Administration Intro Page

I am doing research with Prof. Patterson on system administration as part of the Berkeley Network of Workstations (NOW) project. If you have any comments on the sysadmin pages, you can send them to: eanders@cs.berkeley.edu

Papers & Slides

Extensible, Scalable Monitoring for Clusters of Computers (extended abstract accepted to LISA '97; full paper being written) (ps) (Word97)
Slides from my SOSP 95 Work in Progress presentation.
Slides from my research group presentation on October 11, 1995.
Slides from my Work in Progress presentation at the LISA IX conference
Slides from the Summer NOW retreat (in postscript)

Work on merging together all of the ideas of the various package installation/management tools (modules, depot, lude, etc.)
Work on producing a system which monitors many different services along with dependancies in the monitoring (buzzard, pong, big brother, etc.)
Make the monitoring system automatically detect services to be monitored.
Make the monitoring system able to correct problems. (for example, restarting failed processes)
Work on a tool which will compare systems for similarity, and produce scripts to make them more similar if desired.

If you are interested in working on any of these projects with me, or can suggest some other projects, please send me mail.