First International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04)
Towards a Self-Managing Software Patching Process Using Black-Box Persistent-State Manifests
New York, New York
May 17-May 18
ISBN: 0-7695-2114-2
We describe a new approach to self-managing software patching. We identify visibility into patch impact as the key missing component in automating the current patching process, and we present a suite of components that provides this visibility by constructing black-box persistent-state manifests through self-monitoring of dependencies. Additionally, we use the component suite to measure the actual impact of recent patches on several important commercial applications.
Citation:
John Dunagan, Roussi Roussev, Brad Daniels, Aaron Johnson, Chad Verbowski, Yi-Min Wang, "Towards a Self-Managing Software Patching Process Using Black-Box Persistent-State Manifests," icac, pp.106-113, First International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004