Manageability Solutions

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Manageability Solutions refers to a range of software available to monitor and maintain a computer system in good working condition. These software can be divided into hardware monitoring and software monitoring solutions. Solutions that monitor the computer hardware, like temperature and power variations, are hardware monitoring systems. These applications have a high interaction with the hardware and are usually low-level systems. Software monitoring systems interact mainly with the operating systems. i.e., they are used to manage the operating system rather than the actual hardware.

WBEM is an industry-level standard for computer management solutions. Manageability solutions are numerous and are particularly popular in high-end server environment. Hewlett Packard is generally considered to be the first company to produce manageability software commercially. Some of the companies providing manageability solutions are:

• Hewlett Packard provides SAM or System Administration Homepage for HP UX. In addition, HP has a wide range of enterprise management suites also, like openview. These are aimed at hp server customers.
• IBM provides management software for AIX, like SMIT.
• Sun Microsystems provides Solaris Management Console for Solaris.
• Webmin is a managebility solution for Linux. They can be installed on almost any flavour of unix.
• Microsoft provides its own control panel for windows administration.

[edit] External links

• HP Documentation has documentation for HP's manageability software.
• Webmin official site of webmin products.