Hi all,
Paul Anderson, a friend of mine who works at the University of
Edinburgh, is looking for complicated problems that are currently
difficult to handle with existing config mgmt tools.
Please read his request below, and if you have any difficult problems
that seem to meet his needs, I''d appreciate it if you would send
descriptions of them to him.
Thanks,
Luke
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Paul Anderson <dcspaul@inf.ed.ac.uk>
> Date: February 16, 2007 2:29:10 AM CST
> To: Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com>
> Subject: Problems wanted :-)
>
>
> Hi Luke ...
>
> I''m trying to collect together some practical examples of two
> specific kinds of problem. I wondered if you had come cross
> examples of either of these (or if you had any other comments) ... ?
>
> 1) Conflict resolution. eg. where you have some configuration
> parameter which is affected by "aspects" that are managed by
> different people. This might be on a single machine - eg. the value
> for some parameter needs setting by an application specialist, but
> this conflicts with some value set by the system manager. Or it
> might be "network-wide" - eg. someone sets up machine X to do
> particular function, but the security people say that this machine
> can''t be use for some reason. Most of this resolution probably
> occurs manually right now, but I''m interested in where these
> conflicts occur and what kind of negotiation is required to resolve
> them.
>
> 2) Sequencing. The problem where you have to make one set of
> changes, then wait for something to happen before making another
> set of changes. Particularly, the planning of these sequences - eg.
> if I want to move a server, I need to work out the order in which
> do things (start new server, move clients, remove old server).
>
> Any comments/examples/feedback welcome ....
>
> Ta
>
> Paul
>
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