Migrating to the Solaris™ Operating System: The Discipline of UNIX-to-UNIX® Migrations

Defining Migration-Specific Management Tasks

The new IT environment components must be integrated into the existing IT management infrastructure. The approach you take and the degree of effort involved with it will depend on the current degree of operational capability the organization possesses. An IT organization with a well-defined set of management processes, supported by an appropriate tools infrastructure, will be able to integrate the migrated environment with a reasonable degree of effort. A less mature organization will need to consider using the migration effort as the catalyst to improving its operational capability, which will require significantly more effort. In this case, the organization might consider improving operational capabilities ...