15. LISA 2001: San Diego, California, USA

Opening Remarks, Awards, and Keynote

• Greg Bear: Keynote Address: Slime vs. Silicon.

• Ernest Prabhakar: Keynote: Rebuilding the Digital Enterprise Around Internet Standards.
• William LeFebvre: CNN.com: Facing a World Crisis.

Stirring the Matrix: Organizational System Administration

• Mark D. Roth:
  Defining the Role of Service Manager: Sanity Through Organizational Evolution. 1-6
  
• Dejan Diklic, Venkatesh Velayutham, Steve Welch, Roger Williams:
  Remote Outsourcing Services for Multiple Branch Offices and Small Businesses via the Internet. 7-14
  

Technologies Indistinguishable from Magic: Analytical System Administration

• Robert Apthorpe:
  A Probabilistic Approach to Estimating Computer System Reliability (Awarded Best Theory Paper!). 31-46
  
• Frode Eika Sandnes:
  Scheduling Partially Ordered Events in a Randomised Framework: Empirical Results and Implications for Automatic Configuration Management. 47-62
  
• Alva L. Couch, Noah Daniels:
  The Maelstrom: Network Service Debugging via "Ineffective Procedures". 63-78
  

Monte LISA Overdrive: Empirical System Administration

• Patrick O'Rourke, Mike Keefe:
  Performance Evaluation of Linux Virtual Server. 79-92
  
• Larry Lancaster, Alan Rowe:
  Measuring Real-World Data Availability. 93-100
  
• Hårek Haugerud, Sigmund Straumsnes:
  Simulation of User-Driven Computer Behaviour. 101-108
  

Seeing How the LAN Lies: Network Monitoring

• Jürgen Schönwälder:
  Specific Simple Network Management Tools. 109-120
  
• Victor Götsch, Albert Wuersch, Tobias Oetiker:
  Gossips: System and Service Monitor. 121-132
  
• David Moore, Ken Keys, Ryan Koga, Edouard Lagache, Kimberly C. Claffy:
  The CoralReef Software Suite as a Tool for System and Network Administrators. 133-144
  

Level 1 Diagnostics: Short Topics on Host Management

• Yizhan Sun, Alva L. Couch:
  Global Impact Analysis of Dynamic Library Dependencies. 145-150
  
• Serge E. Hallyn, Phil Kearns:
  Tools to Administer Domain and Type Enforcement. 151-156
  
• Lee "Leonardo" Amatangelo, W. Curtis Preston:
  Solaris Bare-Metal Recovery from a Specialized CD and Your Enterprise Backup Solution. 157-162
  
• Willem A. Schreüder:
  Accessing Files on Unmounted Filesystems. 163-168
  

To Your Scattered PCs Go! Distributed Configuration Management

• Todd Poynor:
  Automating Infrastructure Composition for Internet Services. 169-178
  
• Tobias Oetiker:
  TemplateTree II: The Post-Installation Setup Tool. 179-186
  
• Matt Holgate, Will Partain:
  The Arusha Project: A Framework for Collaborative UNIX System Administration. 187-198
  

Human Interface: Timely Solutions

• Mike Wyer, Susan Eisenbach:
  LEXIS: An EXam Invigilation System (Awarded Best Applied Paper!). 199-210
  
• Ellen Spertus, Robin Jeffries, Kiem Sie:
  Dynamic Sublists: Scaling Unmoderated Mailing Lists. 211-218
  
• Stephen J. Okay, Gale E. Pedowitz:
  GEORDI: A Handheld Tool for Remote System Administration. 219-230
  

Adapting the Collective: Short Topics on Configuration Management

• Robin Garner:
  Pelican DHCP Automated Self-Registration System: Distributed Registration and Centralized Management. 257-267
  
• R. P. Channing Rodgers, Ziying Sherwin:
  A Management System for Network-Shareable Locally Installed Software: Merging RPM and the Depot Scheme Under Solaris. 267-273
  
• Andrew Mayhew:
  File Distribution Efficiencies: cfengine Versus rsync. 273-276
  
• Charles Beadnall, Andrew Mayhew:
  CfAdmin: A User Interface for cfengine. 277-281
  

Work-in-Progress Reports

Invited Talks

• Aviel D. Rubin: Security for E-Voting in Public Elections.
• Peter H. Salus: 2001: A Communications Anniversary.
• Kimberly C. Claffy: Internet Measurement: Myths About Internet Data.
• Daniel V. Klein: 150/5, 000 Years of (E-)Commerce: History Repeats Itself Again.
• Steve Simmons, Elizabeth D. Zwicky: Rules of Thumb of System Administration.
• Lee Tien: What Sysadmins Need to Know About the New Intellectual Property Laws.
• Jim Waldo: JINI Networking Technology and Ad-Hoc Networks.
• Ruth Milner: Reducing System Complexity: A Case Study in Converging Environments.
• W. Curtis Preston: SANs and NAS.
• Michel Pelletier: Zope.
• David N. Blank-Edelman: If I Could Talk to the Animals--What Sysadmins Can Learn About Diagnostic Skills from Another Profession.
• Geoff Halprin: The Problem with Developers.
• Shane Caraveo: PHP for System Administration.
• Phil Cox: Hardening Windows 2000.

To Teraflops and Beyond!

• Esther Filderman, Kevin Sullivan, Victor Hazlewood: Panel: An Overview of Terascale Computing.
• Victor Hazlewood: Invited Talk: San Diego Supercomputer Center's Blue Horizon.
• Esther Filderman, Kevin Sullivan: Managing the Terascale: Lessons from a 750-Node Supercomputer.
• Esther Filderman, Kevin Sullivan, Victor Hazlewood: Wrap-Up and Q & A.

• Panel: Written Any Good Books Lately?
• Panel: Scripting Languages Bake-Off.

Network/Security

Illuminating the Dark Side: Short Topics on Security Issues (1 Talk, 3 Papers)

• Gregory G. Rose:
  Where Has All the Crypto Gone? Long Time Coming: A Speculative and Historical Talk.
  
• Peter D. Gray:
  SUS, an Object Reference Model for Distributing UNIX Super User Privileges. 15-18
  
• Reiner Sailer, Arup Acharya, Mandis Beigi, Raymond B. Jennings III, Dinesh C. Verma:
  IPSECvalidate: A Tool to Validate IPSEC Configurations. 19-24
  
• Niels Provos, Peter Honeyman:
  ScanSSH: Scanning the Internet for SSH Servers. 25-30
  

• Gordon Cook: Whither End-to-End: Placing Bandwidth and Trust at the Edge.
• Steve Burnett: Crypto Blunders.

Control Central: Three Talks on New Approaches to Security Management

• Mark Epstein: A Non-Traditional Approach to Network Security Control.
• Æleen Frisch:
  Beyond File Permissions: Controlling User Actions.
  
• Hal Pomeranz: Are Baseline Computer Security Standards the Answer?

The Packet Crackdown: Talks on TCP Performance Tuning and Packet Capture

• Thomas J. Hacker: TCP Performance Tuning.
• Michael T. Stolarchuk:
  BPF Meets UVM.
  

• Avishai Wool: How Not to Configure Your Firewall: A Field Guide to Common Firewall Configurations.

The Network from Orbit: A Global Perspective

• Marina Fomenkov, Kimberly C. Claffy, Bradley Huffaker, David Moore:
  Macroscopic Internet Topology and Performance Measurements from the DNS Root Name Servers. 231-240
  
• Nevil Brownlee, Kimberly C. Claffy, Evi Nemeth:
  DNS Root/g TLD Server Measurements. 241-256
  

• John S. Flowers: Inspection, Detection & Deflection: Armoring the Next Wave of Security Technology.
• Panel: The Future of Computer Security.

Guru Sessions

• Gerald Carter: LDAP.
• Esther Filderman, Garry Zacheiss: AFS.
• Steve Traugott: Infrastructure Architecture.
• Gregory G. Rose: PKI/Cryptography.
• Thomas A. Limoncelli: Writing Papers for Usenix Refereed Track.
• W. Curtis Preston: Backups.
• Bill Labrie: Sysadmin for Suits.
• Eric Allman: Email MTAs.
• Adam Moskowitz: Computer Room Design/Layout.

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