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1. |  A Sysadmin's Guide to Navigating the Business World By: Mark Burgess; Carolyn Rowland Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 17-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Sysadmin's Guide to Navigating the Business World
This is a book about how system administrators can better support the strategic goals of the workplace. Aligning IT processes and infrastructure with "business" is a topic that has been largely ignored in the past, and we have set out to correct that.
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2. |  Job Descriptions for System Administrators By: Tina Darmohray Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 17-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Job Descriptions for System Administrators
Achieving business alignment should be the desired end-state both for system administrator and for the business for which they work. Getting there is a challenge for sysadmins, because they are often viewed as technicians, not strategic advisers. They need to think like business leaders, communicate their value and impact in a way that business leaders will understand, and establish a consistent value-driven model for IT within the organization. In essence, system administration must think strategically to bridge the gap.
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3. |  #20: Running the Numbers: System, Network, and Environment Monitoring By: Daniel V. Klein; John Sellens Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 14-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: #20: Running the Numbers: System, Network, and Environment Monitoring
This booklet is about one aspect of system and network monitoring: collecting, storing, reviewing, and acting on numbers (or, more formally, data points) that tell us something relevant about our environment. We are concentrating on instrumenting our systems and networks rather than on examining or monitoring the services we provide. We focus on monitoring our environment and less on controlling the equipment that controls it.
But with any monitoring process comes the ability to influence the thing being monitored, either automatically or through conscious action on the part of the...
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4. |  #21: Foundation for Cloud Computing with VMware vSphere 4 By: John Arrasjid; Duncan Epping; Steve Kaplan Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 13-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: #21: Foundation for Cloud Computing with VMware vSphere 4
Virtualization is recognized as a foundation for Cloud Computing. This book is an overview of the VMware technologies and how they can support the various services and management pieces required for Cloud architecture. Without diving overly deeply into specific design patterns, it provides insight into the tools to fit your design criteria.
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5. |  By: Paul Anderson Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 30-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: System Configuration
This booklet is aimed squarely at the working system administrator; it aims to explain clearly the various facets of the system configuration problem and to describe how these relate to current tools and future research. Understanding underlying configuration principles will help system administrators use "best practice" in applying current configuration tools and procedures; these are often very flexible, and it is all too easy to negate the advantages presented by a perfectly good tool. Descriptions of the various facets of the configuration problem should also help provide system...
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6. |  Configuration Management with Bcfg2 By: Narayan Desai; Cory Lueninghoener Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 10-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Configuration Management with Bcfg2
Configuration is the medium in which system administrators work. Ranging from the most sweeping decisions to minor troubleshooting of software problems, the act of helping people use computers necessitates a stream of decisions that result in the configuration and software infrastructures that each of us uses on a daily basis. Configuration management is a process whereby administrator interactions with configuration are streamlined and simplified. As the scale of infrastructures grows and the complexity of software systems increases, the cost of system administration rises rapidly....
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7. |  Deploying the VMware Infrastructure By: John Arrasjid; Karthik Balachandran; Daniel Conde; Gary Lamb; Steve Kaplan Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 10-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Deploying the VMware Infrastructure
Virtual machines, which were almost forgotten in the 1990s, have re-emerged as a method to install and consolidate many server systems into one physical machine. Many virtual machines can run on one host. Fast networks and CPUs now enable PCs to be hosted as virtual machines in central servers accessed from thin clients, just like the old time-sharing terminals, which improves the manageability of desktop computing. Complex, multi-tiered systems can be tested and deployed using virtual machines, which helps bring a wide array of configurations to the fingertips of developers, with no need...
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8. |  LCFG: A Practical Tool for System Configuration By: Paul Anderson Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 01-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: LCFG: A Practical Tool for System Configuration
Even a site with a small network of computers is likely to have hundreds of configuration files. The content of these files determines how the overall system works and what it does; this is what makes the difference between a lab of student machines and the same set of hardware providing a Web service. Working out what to put in the configuration files takes a lot of skill and experience. Any mistakes are likely to cause some kind of failure or security breach. A system administrator will usually be responsible for setting these files up correctly and updating them as the system and the...
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9. |  A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine By: Mark Burgess; Æleen Frisch Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 09-APR-2007 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine
Cfengine is a free software package for automating the configuration and maintenance of networked computers. Its purpose is to implement policy-based configuration management. A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine describes all aspects of using Cfengine 2. Beginning with the fundamentals of Cfengine itself, the booklet takes you though the policies, shows you how to build an infrastructure. It then covers host monitoring and anomaly detection, as well as the management process. Finally, the booklet provides case studies and sample policies and a...
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10. |  Building a Logging Infrastructure Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 14-NOV-2004 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building a Logging Infrastructure
This booklet describes how to build an infrastructure to collect, preserve, and extract useful information from your computer operating system and application logs. We will focus primarily on UNIX syslog, with some discussion of Windows logging and other sources of log data. Logfiles hold a wealth of information, from resource utilization diagnostics to problems with hardware and software, security problems, and forensic traces of intrusions. Unfortunately, there's an awful lot of information in log files, and it's not well organized or codified. Formats of messages, even timestamps, vary...
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11. |  By: Adam Moskowitz Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 25-MAY-2003 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Budgeting for SysAdmins
Budgeting for SysAdmins provides system administrators with an in-depth look at the entire budgeting process, including: what is a budget?; why sysadmins benefit from budgeting; basic overall management; charge-backs "most economical" vs. "cheapest"; and getting the budget approved. In addition to the basics, Budgeting for SysAdmins provides an excellent guide for navigating the "people process" behind budgeting. Learn how to talk to managers, package your proposed budget, and present it to the powers that be. Budgeting affects almost every sysadmin in one way or another. This guide...
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