Re: Number of Admin's per Server

jon_at_parmetpc.volpe.dot.gov
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: 6 Feb 2005 09:50:18 -0800

I found some good information in
<http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp3920.pdf> . Granted it
assumes the org has bought into using Tivoli, but there's some good
content in there that can give rise to thoughts that should be applied
to an organization, irrespective of whatever tools (or tool suites) are
actually deployed. They provide some good analysis of the different
trade spaces that occur in any environment.

Recently, I was able to play around with AIX's System Manager. I'm not
saying it's any kind of silver bullet, but IMO they've done a nice job
of allowing multiple nodes to be centrally managed. I haven't played
with it extensively, but I'd like to see a similar interface work in a
heterogenous environment, for at least the portions which are common
across many a Unix platform.

Regards,
Jon