# Artificial Intelligence in the service of system administrators

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Conferences
- Speaker: Christophe Haen
- Year: 2012
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics, Computer science, Earth and environment
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3008333)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The LHCb online system relies on a large and heterogeneous IT infrastructure made from thousands of servers on which many different applications are running. They run a great variety of tasks : critical ones such as data taking and secondary ones like web servers. The administration of such a system and making sure it is working properly represents a very important workload for the small expert-operator team. Research has been performed to try to automatize (some) system administration tasks, starting in 2001 when IBM defined the so-called "self objectives" supposed to lead to "autonomic computing". In this context, we present a framework that makes use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to monitor and diagnose at a low level and in a non intrusive way Linux-based systems and their interaction with software. Moreover, the multi agent approach we use, coupled with a "object oriented paradigm" architecture should increase a lot our learning speed, and highlight relations between problems..

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## Lectures

1. [Artificial Intelligence in the service of system administrators](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3008333/4f48704deb40), 23 min (CERN's player)