Analytical Network and System Administration

Managing Human-computer Systems

Mark Burgess

366 pages, parution le 19/04/2004

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Résumé

Network and systems administration usually refers to the skill of keeping computers and networks running properly. But in truth, the skill needed is that of managing complexity - to save time performing common system administration tasks, to allow safe use of untrained and trained help in maintaining mission-critical systems and to enable efficient centralized network administration.

Mark Burgess describes the science behind these complex systems, independent of the operating systems they work on. Rather than viewing the subject traditionally as a set of recipes for success or communications technologies for monitoring, Analytical Network and System Administration:

provides models and theoretical tools for analysing the resources, efficiency and security of human-computer systems.
gives advice and guidance on how to determine optimal policies for system administration.
employs probabilistic rather than Boolean methods.
illustrates key points with examples and exercises.

The essence of this book concedes the complexity of human-computer systems and urges readers to make the best of it. Although it tackles many complicated issues, the book offers a lightweight overview, suitable for graduate students and researchers in Networking and Computer Science. Its unique approach to an old problem will also appeal to practicing system managers and administrators.

Sommaire

Introduction
Science and its methods
Experiment and observation
Simple systems
Sets, states and logic
Diagrammatical representations
System variables
Change in systems
Information
Stability
Resource networks
Task management and services
System architectures
System normalization
System integrity
Policy and maintenance
Knowledge, learning and training
Policy transgressions and fault modelling
Decision and strategy
Conclusions

A Some Boolean formulae
B Statistical and scaling properties of time-series data
C Percolation conditions

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Mark Burgess
Parution	19/04/2004
Nb. de pages	366
Format	17 x 25
Couverture	Relié
Poids	860g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780470861004