Towards an ontology for system administration case study : backup operation

摘要

With the multiplicity of operating systems it is becoming common practicefor organizations to deploy heterogeneous systems environments in order tobenefit from their different advantages. The tradeoff of building heterogeneousenvironment is that it often leads to parallel support structures, noninteroperablemanagement tools and system administrators with diverse skillsto keep such complex infrastructures running. One basic requirement of interoperabilityor integration is the mapping between different models. Thismapping can be carried out through syntactical and semantic translation usingontologies. This project focuses on the interoperability issues in heterogeneousenvironment, mainly mixed Unix/Linux and Windows infrastructures.The aim of this text is to investigate, with the help of a specific case study, howintegration can be achieved in the management of Unix/Linux and Windowsmixed environment through the knowledge sharing and interoperability capabilitiesprovided by ontology engineering.