| During my research for Reuters, I came across various
system management products.
The approach taken by many of these, for example BMC Patrol, Tivoli Enterprise,
HP OpenView, and Unicenter TNG from Computer
Associates is to provide a high level framework including management
consoles, common services and so on. Into the framework plug various
specific modules, for example for creating monitoring thresholds,
schuleding virus scans, or creating security policies.
Tivoli
Enterprise is the one I have looked at most, being Reuters prefered
system management framework at present. I have looked in detail at the
event processing system, distributed monitors, building tasks via task
libraries, and have developed solutions in these areas using both the
Tivoli GUI tools and command line utilities, in many cases using Perl scripts.
Tivoli have been active in pushing back the boundaries
of system management, announcing Tivoli SecureWay suite of security
management and control products. The product's Authorization API is now
adopted as a technical standard by the Open Group. They have also
announced support for management services on mobile devices such as the
PalmPilot, as part of what they call Pervasive Management.
I have been on several Tivoli training courses in the UK
with IT Masters. They provided consultancy and sold Tivoli products as
well as training. In fact they produced the first version of the event
console later used by Tivoli Enterprise. IT Masters have now been taken
over by Tivoli competitors - BMC.
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