| Configurable immunity for evolving human-computer systems (2004) | |||||||||||||||
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| The immunity model, as used in the GNU cfengine project, is a distributed framework for performing policy conformant system administration, used on hundreds of thousands of Unix-like and Windows systems. This paper describes the idealized approach to policy-guided maintenance, that is approximated by cfengine, building on the notion of ‘convergent’ operations, i.e. those that reach stable equilibrium. Agents gravitate towards a policy determined configurations, through the repeated application of unintelligent ‘anti-body ’ operations or discrete, coded countermeasures. The distributed agents turn passive discovery of state into active strategy for ‘curing ’ systems of policy transgressions. Keywords: autonomous computer management, cfengine, immunity model. 1 | |||||||||||||||
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