information for unix system management

[Willem de Jong]

Hello!

I am developing a tool to support Unix system administrators. At this
moment I am trying to find out what data is needed to manage a Unix system.
I reckon this data will consist of two parts:

- Data that describes the managed system as it should be. 
  This data might be used to check the actual status of the system.
  I am thinking of things like: which processes should run, and when; which
  files should be present, and in which directories, etc.

- Historical data, to be able to do some predictions on the future (by
  extrapolation).

Does anyone know which ATTRIBUTES might be of interest, or where I could
find a DESIGN for a DATABASE to hold this information?

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