Pulsar: An extensible tool for monitoring large unix sites

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1163-1176

  Finkel, Raphael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Administration; Monitoring; Unix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERROR DETECTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MONITORING; UNIX;

PULSE MONITORS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PULSAR;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031250107     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199710)27:10<1163::AID-SPE124>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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