22. LISA 2008: San Diego, CA, USA

Mario Obejas (Ed.): Proceedings of the 22nd Large Installation System Administration Conference, LISA 2008, November 9-14, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA. USENIX Association 2008, ISBN 978-1-931971-63-8 BibTeX

Think About It (Meta-Admin and Theory)

Nicole F. Velasquez, Suzanne P. Weisband, Alexandra Durcikova:
Designing Tools for System Administrators: An Empirical Test of the Integrated User Satisfaction Model. 1-8
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Marc Chiarini, Alva L. Couch:
Dynamic Dependencies and Performance Improvement. 9-21
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Xiaoning Ding, Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Anees Shaikh, Xiaodong Zhang:
Automatic Software Fault Diagnosis by Exploiting Application Signatures. 23-39
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Large-ish Infrastructure

Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Cory Lueninghoener, Andrew Cherry, Susan Coghlan, William Scullin:
Petascale System Management Experiences. 41-48
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Donna Cumberland, Randy Herban, Rick Irvine, Michael Shuey, Mathieu Luisier:
Rapid Parallel Systems Deployment: Techniques for Overnight Clustering. 49-57
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Qi Liao, Andrew Blaich, Aaron Striegel, Douglas Thain:
ENAVis: Enterprise Network Activities Visualization. 59-74
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Trust and Other Security Matters

Sandeep Bhatt, Cat Okita, Prasad Rao:
Fast, Cheap, and in Control: Towards Pain-Free Security! 75-90
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Gautam Singaraju, Brent Hoon Kang:
Concord: A Secure Mobile Data Authorization Framework for Regulatory Compliance. 91-102
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Matthew Burnside, Mack Lu, Angelos D. Keromytis:
Authentication on Untrusted Remote Hosts with Public-Key Sudo. 103-107
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Virtualization

Mark Dehus, Dirk Grunwald:
STORM: Simple Tool for Resource Management. 109-119
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Mark A. Smith, Jan Pieper, Daniel Gruhl, Lucas Villa Real:
IZO: Applications of Large-Window Compression to Virtual Machine Management. 121-132
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Youhui Zhang, Xiaoling Wang, Liang Hong:
Portable Desktop Applications Based on P2P Transportation and Virtualization. 133-144
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On the Wire

Antonis Theocharides, Demetres Antoniades, Michalis Polychronakis, Elias Athanasopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos:
Topnet: A Network-aware top(1). 145-157
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Alok Tongaonkar, Sreenaath Vasudevan, R. Sekar:
Fast Packet Classification for Snort by Native Compilation of Rules. 159-165
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Getting Stuff Done

Mohammad Banikazemi, David Daly, Bülent Abali:
Sysman: A Virtual File System for Managing Clusters. 167-174
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Stephen Childs, Marco Emilio Poleggi, Charles Loomis, Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías, Michel Jouvin, Ronald Starink, Stijn De Weirdt, Germán Cancio Meliá:
Devolved Management of Distributed Infrastructures with Quattor. 175-189
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Colin Higgs:
Authorisation and Delegation in the Machination Configuration System. 191-199
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