Interactive exploration of large filesystems

Joshua Foster; Kalpathi Subramanian; Gail-Joon Ahn

doi:10.1117/12.589656

Interactive exploration of large filesystems

Joshua Foster, Kalpathi Subramanian, Gail-Joon Ahn

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Abstract

Secure management of file systems of large organizations can present significant challenges to system administrators, in terms of the number of users, shared access to parts of the file system for supporting large software projects, and securing and monitoring critical parts of the file system from intruders. We present interactive visualization tools for monitoring and viewing the complex access control relationships within large file systems. This tool is targeted as an aid to system administrators to manage users, software applications and shared access. We tested our tool on UNC Charlotte's Andrew File System (AFS), which contains 7043 users, 560 user groups, and about 2.1 million directories. Our system displays summary information about the file system, and two types of visualizations to explore access control relationships among classes of users. In addition, drill-down features are provided to explore the user file system structure and manage access control information of any directory within the system. All of the views are linked to permit easy navigation and features are provided that make the system scalable to larger filesystems.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Editors	R.F. Erbacher, J.C. Roberts, M.T. Grohn, K. Borner
Pages	307-315
Number of pages	9
Volume	5669
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.589656
State	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Visualization and Data Analysis 2005 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Jan 17 2005 → Jan 18 2005

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Other	Proceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Visualization and Data Analysis 2005
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	1/17/05 → 1/18/05

Keywords

AFS
Drill-down
Filesystem
Monitoring
Visualization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics

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Foster, J, Subramanian, K & Ahn, G-J 2005, Interactive exploration of large filesystems. in RF Erbacher, JC Roberts, MT Grohn & K Borner (eds), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. vol. 5669, 30, pp. 307-315, Proceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Visualization and Data Analysis 2005, San Jose, CA, United States, 1/17/05. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.589656

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