June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
In contrast to what you may be used to on a UNIX system, systems management on the mainframe goes far beyond just managing a few users. Systems management covers an extensive range of policies, procedures, and tools. We will divide systems management into essentially arbitrary disciplines that, nonetheless, reflect the division of responsibilities in many large IT installations. Furthermore, the disciplines we are going to use also map to the areas in which many tool providers specialize.
We will distinguish these disciplines:
Availability management
Data management
Security management
Performance and capacity planning
System administrator tasks
The following subsections provide an overview of these disciplines. ...