Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology

Remote Systems Management

Remote systems management, like remote access, has many advantages. It offers the ability to work remotely, whether you are snowed in at home or at a hotel attending a conference. It allows you to get the best people available from the largest labor pool. Monitoring and Management systems like Sun™ Management Center (Sun MC), BMC Patrol, and others allow you to monitor and manage devices from pagers and cell phones from anywhere around the world.

Effective systems management is critical to a smoothly running data center, and even more critical when managing remotely. System configuration information (hardware, software, patches, etc.) is the foundation for remote systems management. It is critical that this information ...