14. LISA 2000: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Systems Administration (LISA 2000), New Orleans, Louisiana, December 3-8, 2000. USENIX 2000 BibTeX Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Systems Administration (LISA 2000), New Orleans, Louisiana, December 3-8, 2000. USENIX 2000
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Refereed Papers

Deep Thoughts

Mark Burgess:
Theoretical System Administration. 1-13
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Alva L. Couch:
An Expectant Chat About Script Maturity. 15-28
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Jon Finke:
An Improved Approach for Generating Configuration Files from a Database. 29-38
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You, a Rock, and a Hard Place

Robert Beck, Steve Holstead:
FOKSTRAUT and Samba--Dealing with Authentication and Performance Issues on a Large-scale Samba Service. 39-42
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Robert Drzyzgula:
Designing a Data Center Instrumentation System. 43-58
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Karl Larson, Todd Stansell:
Improving Availability in VERITAS Environments. 59-66
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Users and Passwords and Scripts, Oh My!

Douglas Hughes:
User-Centric Account Management with Heterogeneous Password Changing. 67-76
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Matt Curtin, Sandy Farrar, Tami King:
Pelendur: Steward of the Sysadmin. 77-83
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Alexander Kent, James Clifford:
Network Information Management and Distribution in a Heterogeneous and Decentralized Enterprise Environment.
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Network Track

Analyze This!

Jon T. Meek:
Wide Area Network Packet Capture and Analysis. 255-264
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P. Krishnan, Tejas Naik, Ganesan Ramu, Roshan Sequeira:
Sequencing of Configuration Operations for IP Networks. 265-274
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Ellen L. Mitchell, Eric Nelson, David Hess:
ND: A Comprehensive Network Administration and Analysis Tool. 275-283
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Go With the Netflow

Bill Nickless, John-Paul Navarro, Linda Winkler:
Combining Cisco NetFlow Exports with Relational Database Technology for Usage Statistics, Intrusion Detection, and Network Forensics. 285-290
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Steve Romig, Mark Fullmer, Ron Luman:
The OSU Flow-tools Package and CISCO NetFlow Logs. 291-303
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David Plonka:
FlowScan: A Network Traffic Flow Reporting and Visualization Tool. 305-317
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The Toolshed

Rocky Bernstein:
xps--Dynamic Process Tree Watching Under X. 95-100
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Matthew Bing, Carl Erickson:
Extending UNIX System Logging with SHARP. 101-107
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Michael Gilfix, Alva L. Couch:
Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring Your Network with Sound. 109-117
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1984

John Sellens:
Thresh--A Data-Directed SNMP Threshold Poller. 119-130
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Jarra Voleynik:
eEMU: A Practical Tool and Language for System Monitoring and Event Management. 131-137
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Jake D. Brutlag:
Aberrant Behavior Detection in Time Series for Network Monitoring. 139-146
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Robert Osterlund:
PIKT: Problem Informant/Killer Tool. 147-165
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Allan Miller, Alex Donnini:
Relieving the Burden of System Administration Through Support Automation. 167-180
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Alexei Novikov, Martin Hamilton:
FTP Mirror Tracker: A Few Steps Towards URN. 181-186
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Fully Automatic

Kyle Oppenheim, Patrick McCormick:
Deployme: Tellme's Package Management and Deployment System. 187-196
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Christopher Hemmerich:
Automating Request-based Software Distribution. 197-205
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David Ressman, John Valdés:
Use of Cfengine for Automated, Multi-Platform Software and Patch Distribution. 207-218
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Building Blocks

Lee "Leonardo" Amatangelo:
Unleashing the Power of JumpStart: A New Technique for Disaster Recovery, Cloning, or Snapshotting a Solaris System. 219-228
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Michael W. Shaffer:
A Linux Appliance Construction Setv.
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Rajeev Agrawala, Rob Fulmer, Shaun Erickson:
Automating Dual Boot (Linux and NT) Installations. 245-254
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Security Track

Someone's Knocking at the Door...

Hal Burch, Bill Cheswick:
Tracing Anonymous Packets to Their Approximate Source. 319-327
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Sven Dietrich, Neil Long, David Dittrich:
Analyzing Distributed Denial of Service Tools: The Shaft Case. 329-339
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Don't Let Them In

Jean Chouanard:
YASSP! A Tool for Improving Solaris Security. 341-354
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Crispin Cowan, Steve Beattie, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Calton Pu, Perry Wagle, Virgil D. Gligor:
SubDomain: Parsimonious Server Security. 355-368
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Bruce Barnett:
NOOSE - Networked Object-Oriented Security Examiner. 369-378
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Invited Talks Track

Jon Rochlis:
How Not to Get Fleeced with Employee Stock Options.
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Barb Dijker: SAGE Update. BibTeX
Lorette Cheswick:
The Digital House.
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Edward W. Felten: Dr. Felton Goes to Washington: A Personal View of the Microsoft Antitrust Case. BibTeX
Steve Romig:
Experiences with Incident Response at The Ohio State University.
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Leif Hedstrom: Integrating LDAP in a Heterogeneous Environment. BibTeX
Bill Cheswick: Mapping Corporate Intranets and Internets. BibTeX
Brad Knowles:
The Design and Implementation of Highly Scalable Email Systems.
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W. Curtis Preston: SANs--From A To Reality. BibTeX
Steven Levine:
Why the Documentation Sucks and What You Can Do About It.
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