Abstract
Recent research has found that operators frequently misconfigure Internet services, causing various availability and performance problems. In this paper, we propose a software infrastructure that eliminates several types of misconfiguration by automating the generation of configuration files in Internet services, even as the services evolve. The infrastructure comprises a custom scripting language, configuration file templates, communicating runtime monitors, and heuristic algorithms to detect dependencies between configuration parameters and select ideal configurations. To demonstrate our infrastructure experimentally, we apply it to a realistic online auction service. Our results show that the infrastructure can simplify operation significantly while eliminating 58% of the misconfigurations found in a previous study of the same service. Furthermore, our results show that the infrastructure can efficiently determine the configuration parameters that lead to high performance as the service evolves through a hardware upgrade and the scheduled maintenance of a few nodes.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Operating Systems Review - Proceedings of the 2007 EuroSys Conference |
| Pages | 219-229 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 24 2007 |
| Event | 2007 Eurosys Conference - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: Mar 21 2007 → Mar 23 2007 |
Publication series
| Name | Operating Systems Review (ACM) |
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| ISSN (Print) | 0163-5980 |
Other
| Other | 2007 Eurosys Conference |
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| Country | Portugal |
| City | Lisbon |
| Period | 3/21/07 → 3/23/07 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Information Systems
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications
Keywords
- Configuration
- Internet services
- Manageability
- Operator mistakes
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Automatic configuration of internet services. / Zheng, Wei; Bianchini, Ricardo; Nguyen, Thu.
Operating Systems Review - Proceedings of the 2007 EuroSys Conference. 2007. p. 219-229 (Operating Systems Review (ACM)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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AU - Zheng, Wei
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AU - Nguyen, Thu
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