Systems management
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Systems management refers to enterprise-wide administration of distributed computer systems. Systems management is strongly influenced by network management initiatives in telecommunications. The most known systems management systems are IBM Tivoli Framework, Microsoft Systems Management Server, HP OpenView, LANDesk, Novell ZENworks and CA Unicenter.
Functions
Functional groups are provided according to ITU-T X.700 standard.
- Configuration management
- * Hardware and software inventory
- * Provisioning, software deployment and package management
- Security management
- * Identity management
- * Policy management
- Fault management
- * Troubleshooting, error logging and data recovery
- Performance management
- * Software metering and event monitoring
- Accounting management
- * Billing and statistics gathering
Standards
- DMTF
- Common Information Model (CIM), Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), Directory enabled networking (DEN)
- IETF
- SNMP
- ITU-T
- X.700, X.701, etc.
- ...
List of systems management systems
This is a list of systems management systems (in alphabetical order):
- Alitiris Management Suite
- BMC PATROL
- CA Unicenter
- HP OpenView
- IBM Tivoli Framework
- LANDesk Management Suite
- ManageSoft
- Microsoft Systems Management Server
- Nagios
- Novell ZENworks
- Oracle Enterprise Manager
- TeamQuest Performance Software
- Vector Networks PC-Duo
See also
- Network management
- System administration
External links
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