An empirical study on configuration errors in commercial and open source systems

SOSP'11 - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 159-172

  Yin, Zuoning ^a   Ma, Xiao ^a   Zheng, Jing ^b   Zhou, Yuanyuan ^b   Bairavasundaram, Lakshmi N ^c   Pasupathy, Shankar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

characteristic study; misconfigurations

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION; CHARACTERISTIC STUDY; COMPONENT CONFIGURATIONS; CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MISCONFIGURATIONS; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; PARAMETER VALUES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; RESEARCH EFFORTS; STORAGE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM FAILURES;

ERRORS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 82655165298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2043556.2043572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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