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You are then prompted for a user ID and password. This time you can use any

login user of the machine.

4.3 Tivoli Linux systems administration

Tivoli is a complete IBM framework that assists administrators in managing a

complex IT environment. It performs distributed backups by applying backup

policies, installs software and updates, and controls workstations and servers

remotely. Using all the information that it gathers from the different systems,

Tivoli provides views of the company’s IT infrastructure to help management and

administrators to take decisions. In short, Tivoli provides a wide range of

capabilities that cover performance, availability, provisioning, configuration,

security, and storage management.

Linux is a supported managed environment for most of the Tivoli applications. To

describe all of the capabilities to manage Linux clients using Tivoli would require

a redbook of its own. Visit the Tivoli pages at the following Web site for more

information about the Tivoli suite of products:

http://www.ibm.com/software

4.4 Keeping Linux up-to-date

Linux versions change quickly, often once a year. The Linux versioning policy

may vary for different distributions and from one version to the next. The choice

of when to move to a newer version is often driven by business considerations

more than by technical ones.

The following sections describe some of the facilities that are available to assist

administrators in keeping Linux clients (and servers) up to date.

4.4.1 SuSE YoU

SuSE updates itself using the YaST2 Online Update (YoU) tool. There are several

ways to start YoU:

򐂰 From the command line, type:

you

򐂰 From YaST2, select Online Update.

򐂰 From the command line, enter this shortcut:

yast2 online_update