Jeevitha Mahendiran
ABSTRACT
Visualization is an effective way to explore and understand abstract data. While many tool domains have benefitted from the use of visualizations, they currently are in limited use in system administrator tools. The long-term objective of this research is to ease the work of sys admins through enhanced visualizations. Before we can design such tools, we must better understand the work of sys admins, their current tool environment, and how interactive visualizations and system models might enhance their routines. This paper presents our two-phase requirements gathering study currently underway.
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- Exploring the need for visualizations in system administration tools
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