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- From: marier@blkcmb.zso.dec.com (Shawn Marier)
- Subject: Re: Information requested on Unix management tools
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.190853.21814@ninja.zso.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
- References: <1992Aug26.125037.2183@cs.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:08:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.125037.2183@cs.cornell.edu> wood@cs.cornell.edu (Mark D. Wood) writes:
- >
- >I would like pointers to papers describing Unix management tools, for
- >example, those using SNMP (or CMOT). (Or even more experimental
- >systems).
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- DEC FullSail - GUI Driven Distributed System Management for ULTRIX
-
- CONTACT
-
- Salley Anderson, (206) 865-8917
-
- HIGHLIGHTS
-
- o Cut UNIX system management costs
-
- o Easily monitor for incipient overloads and other error situations
-
- o Graphical user interfaces make DEC FullSail easy and fun to use
-
- o Orderable now for shipment in September 1992
-
- PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
-
- DEC FullSail is an integrated, off-the-shelf, GUI-driven, system management
- package for ULTRIX that lets you manage your computing resources more
- effectively with less effort. It is ideal for distributed systems of a few
- to one hundred nodes. DEC FullSail simplifies day-to-day tasks with
- increased capabilities for managing users, file systems, and monitoring
- distributed UNIX system performance.
-
- DEC FullSail extends and complements our existing storage and system
- administration products to reduce the cost of operations and protect
- critical customer information. These products include: DEC Network Save and
- Restore (DECnsr) for network backups of the heterogeneous environment,
- StorageServer 100 to provide high capacity local and network storage, ULTRIX
- Disk Shadowing to protect critical data, and the DECmcc family of network
- administration products.
-
- DEC FullSail consists of four components including the Navigator, Account
- Manager, File-System Manager, and Performance Manager. An easy-to-learn
- Motif-based graphical user interface makes it easy to access DEC FullSail
- from any workstation or X-terminal on the network.
-
- With DEC FullSail, system managers can make changes to all systems without
- regard to the current availability of the managed systems. The DEC FullSail
- Delegation Service stores change requests in a centralized database, and
- distributes them to the managed systems instantly if available or in the
- background if certain nodes are unreachable or busy.
-
- Navigator -- The Central Control Point
-
- The Navigator is the front-end to the other components, providing consistent
- access mechanisms. It lets you divide your systems into different
- groupings or "management sets" according to your own criteria. You might,
- for example, group systems by functional area, system type, or by location.
- This lets you manage your environment in a way that best meets your
- requirements. Through its security mechanisms, Navigator lets you control
- who has access to the different management groupings and applications.
-
- Account Manager -- Easily Handles User Accounts
-
- The Account Manager makes it easy to add, modify, delete, and review user
- accounts and keep account information synchronized across a set of
- distributed systems. It manages such things as a user's disk quota, login
- shell, home directory, or group membership. If you want to add a new account
- to a group of machines and one system is down, the Account Manager updates
- the database immediately and then automatically updates the other system
- when it comes back online. It is capable of executing custom routines when
- adding a user, and has batch capabilities if you need to add a large number
- of users at the same time. It supports the use of NFS mounted home
- directories, and accommodates environments using a local password file, the
- Network Information Service, or Hesiod.
-
- File-System Manager -- Simplifies Configuring and Managing File Systems
-
- The File-System Manager lets you easily configure and monitor file system
- mount points and add new file systems into your computing environment. It
- becomes fast and easy to make a new disk NFS-accessible to hundreds of
- users. And it lets you monitor every file system on the network thus
- locating potential space problems. Through a monitor display, you can
- quickly see what file systems have the most or least capacity available.
-
- Performance Manager -- Easy Monitoring of System Activity
-
- The Performance Manager can display the activity on CPUs and storage devices
- for a continuous real-time picture of performance in your computing
- environment. It can monitor and display load average, swapping rate, free
- memory, memory-in-use, disk throughput rates, buffer cache utilization, NFS
- statistics and error rates and many other items. It shows you where
- resources may need to be modified to increase availability and performance.
- Data may be graphically monitored in realtime or archived for later
- analysis. When archiving data you can select the time interval and the
- maximum size of the archive. The Performance Manager archives data in
- popular spreadsheet formats for use by industry-standard spreadsheets, and
- statistical analysis and 4GL tools, to display and analyze the data for MIS
- budgeting.
-
- Both the Performance Manager and the File-System Manager let you set
- thresholds on items of interest and be notified when they are crossed.
-
- SUPPORT SERVICES
-
- Standard Software Services will be available for DEC FullSail, including
- Layered Product Services (LPS) with appropriate system-service contracts,
- and Media and Documentation Distribution Services (MDDS). These services
- include: Telephone assistance, right-to-use new versions, critical on-site
- software support, Digital software information network, software media and
- documentation updates.
-
- Although customers can install DEC FullSail themselves, installation
- services are available.
-
- SPECIFICATIONS
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- Hardware
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- There are no hardware limitations.
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- Software
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- o The database and graphical user interface support ULTRIX RISC V4.2 and
- higher
- o The client supports ULTRIX RISC and VAX V4.0 and higher
- o ULTRIX SQL V2.0 must be installed on the same machine as the database
-
-
-
-
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- Shawn Del Marier marier@zso.dec.com
- Digital Equipment Corporation ...!decwrl!rust.enet!marier
- DECwest Engineering/Seattle (206) 865-8886
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