Prodog: System Administration in Prolog

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• Read documentation on the current prototype.
• Read LISA-1999 Paper describing the current prototype.
• Read LISA-1999 Slides (postscript) describing the current prototype.

We believe in Mark Burgess' dream of Computer Immunology in which network servers become self-repairing and correcting by use of rule-based self-examination. Born of a need to define more complex operating policies than those supported by CFEngine, the Prolog System Administration Project attempts to redefine the limits of configuration management and dynamic monitoring by providing a scripting language that:

• allows incremental, convergent manipulation of static machine configuration.
• allows crafting of monitoring scripts that monitor and correct machine behavior on an ongoing basis.

Project Status

Currently, the project is in a prototype stage, implemented only for Solaris 7.