The Athena Service Management System.
Mark A. Rosenstein, Dan Geer, Peter J. Levine · 1988
Maintaining, managing, and supporting an unbounded number of distributed network services on multiple server instances requires new solutions. The Athena Service Management System provides centralized control of data administration, a protocol for interface to the database, tools for accessing and modifying the database, and an automated mechanism for data distribution. 1. Introduction The purpose of the Athena Service Management System (SMS) is to provide a single point of contact for authoritative information about resources and services in a distributed computing environment. SMS is a centralized data administrator providing network-based update and maintenance of system servers.+ # Conceptually, SMS provides mechanisms for managing servers and resources. This aspect comprises the fundamental design of SMS. # Economically, SMS provides a replacement for labor-intensive hand-management of server configuration files. # Technically, SMS consists of a database, a server and its prot...