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Sun Gets Serious About
Systems Management
(10/27/99, 10:56 a.m. ET)
By Martin J. Garvey, InformationWeek
Sun Microsystems will unveil a
software product Wednesday that
gets the Unix vendor into the
enterprise systems-management
arena.
Sun Management Center 2.1, formerly Sun
Enterprise SyMON, is a comprehensive
SDK that brings multiple capabilities under
one framework to manage the complexity
and performance issues of the Solaris
operating system. Palo Alto, Calif.-based
Sun will also provide integration between
Management Center and the enterprise
systems-management frameworks from
Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, and
Tivoli.
Management Center's simple, Java-based
GUI will satisfy customer requests for
simplicity, but the long-term goal of the
management environment is to take manual
administration out of the mix completely.
Features include predictive failure analysis,
active/dynamic configuration management,
and user-defined alarm parameters.
Management Center 2.1 will cost nothing for
single node support, $2,500 for two nodes,
$10,000 for 10 nodes, and $50,000 for 100
nodes.
An early customer of Management Center
looks forward to better security and uptime
for jobs happening overnight.
"We have a lot of activity overnight, and the
operator doesn't have the Solaris skills to
solve a lot of the problems," said Hussein
Baniamer, associate director of technology at
investment house Tokyo-Mitsubishi
International in London.
Baniamer said he looks forward to APIs to
create integration between his applications
and Management Center.
"The system will look at many more things
and graphically tell our operator to contact
the right expert," Baniamer said. |
