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System Administration: Monitoring, Diagnosing, and Repairing

Eric Anderson

We first describe the general goals of system administration explaining the relationship to monitoring, diagnosing, and repairing (MDR). Then, we describe the functional and environmental concerns for a MDR system, and use these concerns to explain how previous approaches have failed to fully address the problem. Next, we describe the major pieces of our approach, and identify the research questions associated with each piece. Finally we present a method for testing the system when it is created.

Introduction