Experience implementing an IP address closure
Ning Wu, Alva L. Couch · 2006
Most autonomic systems require large amounts of human labor and configuration before they become autonomous. We study the management problem for autonomic systems, and consider the actions needed before a system becomes self-managing, as well as the tasks a system administrator must still perform to keep so-called ‘‘self-managing systems’ ’ operating properly. To understand the problem, we implemented a prototype self-managing ‘‘IP address closure’ ’ that implements integrated DNS and DHCP. We conclude that the system administrator is far from obsolete, but that the administrator of the future will have a different skill set than those of the present, focused around effective interaction with closures rather than management of individual machines.