• Presenting a prototype for pull based load balancing of web servers 

      Berggren, Arild (Master thesis, 2007)
      The traffic and the number of users on the Internet are increasing, and service providers must respond to this demand if they are not to loose both customers and revenue. In order to provide a satisfactory level of QoS, ...
    • A comparison of management of virtual machines with z/VM and ESX Server 

      Opsahl, Christer (Master thesis, 2007)
      Virtualization and virtual machines are becoming more and more important for businesses. By consolidating many servers to run as virtual machine on a single host companies can save considerable amounts on money. The ...
    • Towards an ontology for system administration case study : backup operation 

      Ntieche, Karim Sani (Master thesis, 2007)
      With the multiplicity of operating systems it is becoming common practice for organizations to deploy heterogeneous systems environments in order to benefit from their different advantages. The tradeoff of building ...
    • User and group profiling based on user process usage 

      Ochoa, Edson (Master thesis, 2007)
      User profiling based on process usage is on approach for adding an extra security layer to our computer systems. In addition it can be of great value for classification of a company/school network and the their user ...
    • Exporting IP flows using IPFIX 

      Juvhaugen, Per (Master thesis, 2007)
      Todays computer networks are continuously expanding both in size and capacity to accommodate the demands of the traffic they are designed to handle. Depending on the needs of the network operator, different aspects of ...
    • Biometric Authentication and Identification using Keystroke Dynamics with Alert Levels 

      Andersen, Aleksander Sveløkken (Master thesis, 2007)
      Proper authentication is needed to avoid theft and destruction of data by unauthorized parties. This research proposes to add software biometrics to the authentication and verification process, using keystroke dynamics. ...
    • Ontology for host-based anomaly detection 

      Adaa, Margareth Pancras (Master thesis, 2007)
      This project is about the description of ontologies for anomaly detection in computer systems. The special case of the anomaly detection system in Cfengine is used as a case study. Cfengine was designed at Oslo University ...
    • Towards automatic management and live migration of virtual machines 

      Mevåg, Ingard (Master thesis, 2007)
      This project will concider management of a Xen-based virtual infrastructure in several aspects. First, management of the infrastructure itself with configuration and provisioning of virtual machines, followed by a ...
    • Monitoring and Analyzing a Game Server Scenario 

      Jelmert, Stian Opsahl (Master thesis, 2008)
      Today, most literature about services in system administration is about conventional services like email servers. How could one monitor and analyze a scenario where the service in question is a game server? As these two ...
    • Analyzing the compression of Opera Mini TM traffic 

      Østen, Stian (Master thesis, 2008)
      Opera Mini TM is a mobile web browser. It was developed for mobile phones incapable of running regular web browsers and released globally in January 2006. It has gained great popularity and can be downloaded free of ...
    • A promising cfengine Linux router 

      Phooripoom, Nakarin (Master thesis, 2008)
      With the multiplicity usage of computer networking devices called router, it is becoming common practice for everybody who would like to be online making this technology be the most responsible for allowing one of the ...
    • Automation and abstraction for scalable z/VM Linux administration on the zSeries mainframe 

      Gundersen, Marius Brath (Master thesis, 2008)
      This thesis considers the administration of virtual machines on IBM mainframes running z/VM.Asolution for administrating z/VM through a Linux VMrunning on a custom designed z/VM architecture is developed and implemented. The ...
    • A technical study of charge back and monitoring systems in virtual environment 

      Shahzad, Kashif (Master thesis, 2008)
      In the recent years the shared services concept has become an integral part of business. These shared services can be in the form of information technology, engineering and lot more. Service providers spent huge amounts ...
    • Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 vs. the 8th Company Law Directive 

      Dagnew, Iman (Master thesis, 2008)
      In 2001 and 2002 a wave of corporate and accounting scandals became known to the public. As a direct consequence of these frauds the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and ...
    • Log Analysis as a way to assist Opera mini cluster management decisions 

      Cheremetiev, Valeri (Master thesis, 2008)
      This thesis considersways that analysis of Operamini logs can assist decisions related to global and local load balancing of Opera mini clusters. The analysis is aimed to determine the distribution of traffic with respect ...
    • Link Delay Inference in ANA Network 

      Paintsil, Ebenezer (Master thesis, 2008)
      Estimating quality of service (QoS) parameters such as link delay distribution from the end-to-end delay of a multicast tree topology in network tomography cannot be achieved without multicast probing techniques or ...
    • Investigation of cluster and cluster queuing system 

      Halifu, Saerda (Master thesis, 2008)
      Cluster became main platform as parallel and distributed computing structure for high performance computing. Following the development of high performance computer architecture more and more different branches of ...
    • A Self-management Approach to Service Optimization and System Integrity through Multi-agent Systems 

      Xing, Lu (Master thesis, 2008)
      The primary goal of this thesis is to make simple approaches to implement selfmanagement functions based on the regular administration tools as a way to simplify tedious tasks for the system administrators. In order to ...
    • Evaluation of different SAN Technologies for virtual machine hosting 

      Lunden, Christian (Master thesis, 2009)
      This thesis covers a problem which companies faces every day: Finding a Storage Area Network(SAN) solution that tackles the rising demands from users and their software and when working with virtualization environments. ...
    • Evaluation of performance and space utilisation when using snapshots in the ZFS and Hammer file systems 

      Aasen Oppegaard, Martin Christoffer (Master thesis, 2009)
      Modern file systems implements snapshots, or read-only point-in-time representations of the file system. Snapshots can be used to keep a record of the changes made to the data, and improve backups. Previous work had ...