Availability Assessment of SunOS/Solaris Unix Systems based on Syslogd and wtmpx log files: A case study

Proceedings - 11th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 49-56

  Simache, Cristina ^a   Kaâniche, Mohamed ^a  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT; MACHINE UPTIMES; WORKSTATIONS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847328785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.2005.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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