Agent-based software configuration and deployment
Richard S. Hall, Alexander L. Wolf · 1999
ions 76 9.1.1.1 Consumer Abstraction 76 9.1.1.2 Software System Abstraction 77 ix 9.1.1.3 Process Abstraction 78 9.1.2 Process Coverage 78 9.1.3 Coordination 79 9.1.4 General Requirements 79 9.2 Mapping the Software Dock to Requirements 82 9.3 Critical Analysis Of Related Technologies 86 9.3.1 Traditional Configuration Management 86 9.3.2 Software System Install, Update, and Remove 87 9.3.3 Software System and Site Description 89 9.3.3.1 The Open Software Description (OSD) Format 89 9.3.3.2 The Software Management Information Format (MIF) 92 9.3.3.3 Other Software System and Site Description Technologies 94 9.3.4 Network Management and System Administration 95 9.3.5 Content Delivery 98 9.3.6 Configurable Distributed Systems 98 9.3.7 Component Models 100 9.4 Usage Experiments 102 9.4.1 Online Learning Academy 102 9.4.1.1 Existing Deployment Solution 103 9.4.1.2 Software Dock Deployment Solution 104 9.4.2 The Chimera Open Hypermedia System 106 9.4.2.1 Existing Deployment Solution 107 9....