Milicchio / Gehrke Distributed Services with OpenAFS

for Enterprise and Education
2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-36634-8
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 395 Seiten, eBook

This book provides a concise answer to how one should organize a robust enterprise IT infrastructure based on open-source software with mainstream hardware. It is a necessity for large organizations to build a central user - thentication service, global user information storage, and to o?er common access to personal ?les regardless of the location the user wishes to connect from. All these issues have been addressed with the help of well-established technologies such as the industry standard Kerberos for user authentication and the OpenAFS distributed ?le system, originally conceived at CMU and used at universities like MIT and Stanford and also at research institutions like CERN among many others. Our presentation o?ers support for system architects and administrators, to decide and implement an enterprise IT infrastructure, and for advanced UNIX users wishing to look beyond isolated workstations, to experience the move from local to global administration and the resulting challenges. The presentation is a step-by-step guide, accompanied with a detailed explanation ofthecorrespondingtechnicalcontextthatmirrorsourownexperiencegained during the setup of an AFS cell at our computer science and engineering department. The main focus lies on the application of UNIX-based services, with particular attention to the underlying OpenAFS ?le system: therefore it can be seen as a companion to the excellent and currently only available book“ManagingAFS:TheAndrewFileSystem”byRichardCampbell,which re?ects the new state of today’s implementation.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milicchio, Franco

Gehrke, Wolfgang Alexander

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Beginning.- The Beginning.- Core Services.- Foundations.- Kerberos V.- LDAP.- OpenAFS.- Samba.- Pushing the Core Services.- Further Services.- Web Server.- Electronic Mail.- Newsgroups.- PostgreSQL Database.- Further Web Applications.- Applications.- Client Systems.- Clustering.- Laboratories.- Collaborative Software.- Where To Go From Here.

Über Autor(innen)

Franco Milicchio is currently at the Department of

Computer Science and Automation at the University Roma Tre, Italy. He

graduated in computer engineering at the same university.

Wolfgang A. Gehrke has worked the last five years as a system

administrator at the Department of Computer Science and Automation

at the University Roma Tre, Italy. He holds a PhD in theoretical

computer science from the University Linz, Austria.