An Iterative Approach to Trustable Systems Management Automation and Fault Handling

• Published in: Journal of network and systems management Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 366 - 395
• Main Authors: McLarnon, Barry, Robinson, Philip, Milligan, Peter, Sage, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.07.2014; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Automated; Automation; Cloud computing; Clouds; Communications Engineering; Computer centers; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Science; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Expenditures; Faults; Information Systems and Communication Service; Management; Networks; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Studies; Systems management; Tasks; Cloud computing; Automation; Systems management; Fault handling; Trustability; Enterprise systems; Data center

Automated systems management solutions aim to reduce the pressure on the administrators of complex, large-scale, distributed systems by enabling the automation of many of the common tasks of management. However, this creates a level of abstraction, which can act as a barrier between the administrato...