14. LISA 2000: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Refereed Papers

Deep Thoughts

• Mark Burgess:
  Theoretical System Administration. 1-13
  
• Alva L. Couch:
  An Expectant Chat About Script Maturity. 15-28
  
• Jon Finke:
  An Improved Approach for Generating Configuration Files from a Database. 29-38
  

You, a Rock, and a Hard Place

• Robert Beck, Steve Holstead:
  FOKSTRAUT and Samba--Dealing with Authentication and Performance Issues on a Large-scale Samba Service. 39-42
  
• Robert Drzyzgula:
  Designing a Data Center Instrumentation System. 43-58
  
• Karl Larson, Todd Stansell:
  Improving Availability in VERITAS Environments. 59-66
  

Users and Passwords and Scripts, Oh My!

• Douglas Hughes:
  User-Centric Account Management with Heterogeneous Password Changing. 67-76
  
• Matt Curtin, Sandy Farrar, Tami King:
  Pelendur: Steward of the Sysadmin. 77-83
  
• Alexander Kent, James Clifford:
  Network Information Management and Distribution in a Heterogeneous and Decentralized Enterprise Environment.
  

Network Track

Analyze This!

• Jon T. Meek:
  Wide Area Network Packet Capture and Analysis. 255-264
  
• P. Krishnan, Tejas Naik, Ganesan Ramu, Roshan Sequeira:
  Sequencing of Configuration Operations for IP Networks. 265-274
  
• Ellen L. Mitchell, Eric Nelson, David Hess:
  ND: A Comprehensive Network Administration and Analysis Tool. 275-283
  

Go With the Netflow

• Bill Nickless, John-Paul Navarro, Linda Winkler:
  Combining Cisco NetFlow Exports with Relational Database Technology for Usage Statistics, Intrusion Detection, and Network Forensics. 285-290
  
• Steve Romig, Mark Fullmer, Ron Luman:
  The OSU Flow-tools Package and CISCO NetFlow Logs. 291-303
  
• David Plonka:
  FlowScan: A Network Traffic Flow Reporting and Visualization Tool. 305-317
  

The Toolshed

• Rocky Bernstein:
  xps--Dynamic Process Tree Watching Under X. 95-100
  
• Matthew Bing, Carl Erickson:
  Extending UNIX System Logging with SHARP. 101-107
  
• Michael Gilfix, Alva L. Couch:
  Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring Your Network with Sound. 109-117
  

1984

• John Sellens:
  Thresh--A Data-Directed SNMP Threshold Poller. 119-130
  
• Jarra Voleynik:
  eEMU: A Practical Tool and Language for System Monitoring and Event Management. 131-137
  
• Jake D. Brutlag:
  Aberrant Behavior Detection in Time Series for Network Monitoring. 139-146
  

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

• Robert Osterlund:
  PIKT: Problem Informant/Killer Tool. 147-165
  
• Allan Miller, Alex Donnini:
  Relieving the Burden of System Administration Through Support Automation. 167-180
  
• Alexei Novikov, Martin Hamilton:
  FTP Mirror Tracker: A Few Steps Towards URN. 181-186
  

Fully Automatic

• Kyle Oppenheim, Patrick McCormick:
  Deployme: Tellme's Package Management and Deployment System. 187-196
  
• Christopher Hemmerich:
  Automating Request-based Software Distribution. 197-205
  
• David Ressman, John Valdés:
  Use of Cfengine for Automated, Multi-Platform Software and Patch Distribution. 207-218
  

Building Blocks

• Lee "Leonardo" Amatangelo:
  Unleashing the Power of JumpStart: A New Technique for Disaster Recovery, Cloning, or Snapshotting a Solaris System. 219-228
  
• Michael W. Shaffer:
  A Linux Appliance Construction Setv.
  
• Rajeev Agrawala, Rob Fulmer, Shaun Erickson:
  Automating Dual Boot (Linux and NT) Installations. 245-254
  

Security Track

Someone's Knocking at the Door...

• Hal Burch, Bill Cheswick:
  Tracing Anonymous Packets to Their Approximate Source. 319-327
  
• Sven Dietrich, Neil Long, David Dittrich:
  Analyzing Distributed Denial of Service Tools: The Shaft Case. 329-339
  

Don't Let Them In

• Jean Chouanard:
  YASSP! A Tool for Improving Solaris Security. 341-354
  
• Crispin Cowan, Steve Beattie, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Calton Pu, Perry Wagle, Virgil D. Gligor:
  SubDomain: Parsimonious Server Security. 355-368
  
• Bruce Barnett:
  NOOSE - Networked Object-Oriented Security Examiner. 369-378
  

Invited Talks Track

• Jon Rochlis:
  How Not to Get Fleeced with Employee Stock Options.
  
• Barb Dijker: SAGE Update.
• Lorette Cheswick:
  The Digital House.
  
• Edward W. Felten: Dr. Felton Goes to Washington: A Personal View of the Microsoft Antitrust Case.
• Steve Romig:
  Experiences with Incident Response at The Ohio State University.
  
• Leif Hedstrom: Integrating LDAP in a Heterogeneous Environment.
• Bill Cheswick: Mapping Corporate Intranets and Internets.
• Brad Knowles:
  The Design and Implementation of Highly Scalable Email Systems.
  
• W. Curtis Preston: SANs--From A To Reality.
• Steven Levine:
  Why the Documentation Sucks and What You Can Do About It.