... attempts to keep track of changes in individual systems using a method of revision control. A typicalUnix system might consist of thousands of files comprising software and data.All of the files (except ... automating system administration have been reported; seerefs. [138, 1 14, 180, 1 94, 21, 191, 10, 116, 259, 113, 84, 258, 249 , 76, 229,217, 92, 145 , 173]. Most of these have been ways of generating ... toolsIn spite of its limitations (see section 6 .4. 1), SNMP remains the protocol of choicefor the management of most network hardware, and many tools have been writtento query and manage SNMP...