Authors:
Yair Amir,
David Breitgand,
Gregory V. Chockler,
Danny Dolev.
In proceedings of the Third International Workshop on
Services in Distributed and Networked Enviroments (SDNE'96).
Macau, June 1996
Abstract:
In the past, system management tools for a computer system were
oriented towards managing a single computer with, perhaps, many
users. When the networked system concept became wide spread,
centralized solutions such as the Network Information Service
were developed to help the system manager to control a network
of workstations. Today, when many sites contain hundreds
of workstations, these solutions may no longer be adequate.
This paper proposes the usage of techniques, developed for group
communication and database replication, for distributed
cluster management. We show how group communication can be
exploited to provides three classes of frequently needed operations:
simultaneous execution of the same operation in a group of workstations;
software installation in multiple workstations;
and consistent network table management (improving the
consistency of NIS)
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