in todays complex, multiplatform enterprise, unifying systems management under a common infrastructure is a significant force driving many business decisions. with linux projects providing specialized applications and functionality, unix resources running mission-critical systems, and the inevitable windows network serving the needs of the rank-and-file end user, the challenge facing it departments is to manage all these disparate resources in the most economical, secure, and efficient manner possible.
virtually every organization is faced with management tasks such as finding out if a router is down, monitoring the status of a database, or patch distribution. the systems management duties of an it department can be as varied as the systems they are managing. lets take the example of an enterprises unix resources. its rare to find true homogeneity across unix systems, let alone the entire enterprise. a typical network may be running a wide mix of unix and linux systems for financial systems, hr, web servers, etc. with so many different versions of unix, it departments are faced with an equally large number of choices when it comes to managing these systems. now expand that scope to include a set of linux systems - not to mention the windows systems - and the management nightmare only increases.
with all these disparate systems in a typical enterprise, there is a constant challenge to find a simple, overreaching management tool. managing a single application on a single system is easy. managing a single application on multiple systems isnt much more difficult. but managing multiple applications on multiple platforms is where the real challenge lies. todays en... 下一页