[Infrastructures] The Major Products

[Ryan Nowakowski]

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:19:36PM -0400, Todd Snyder wrote:
> Good day all,
>=20
> We are looking at finally putting in a systems management tool/tools in
> the new year to handle 1000 pretty much identical stores.  We currently
> do very little, and what we have is home built.  It looks like we've got
> budget and motivation to buy a management tool/tools, but so far
> everyone says they do the same things and are all "the best" (we're at
> the "talking to sales people stage" obviously).
>=20
> What systems management tools do you use and recommend?  We're looking
> at Zenworks 7, Aduva OnStage, BMC Marimba, CA Unicentre, Symantec
> iCommand, HP Openview, Tivoli *something*, etc. =20
>=20
> I'm looking for professional opinions on these and other products.  What
> have you done, what would you do again, and what would you avoid even if
> it was given to you?  How do you manage 1000 'identical' boxes in very a
> very geographically diverse network with very little (if any - we use
> satellite) real bandwidth between us and them for management?  It's a
> mix of Linux/SCO servers with Windows XP workstations hanging off them.
>=20
> Thanks for your help/opinions/time in advance.

You should use ISConf[1] to manage the Linux/SCO servers and Unattended[2]
to automatically reimage the Windows XP Workstations nightly.  Seriously,
that's better than any spyware removal tool out there.

1. http://trac.t7a.org/isconf
2. http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

- Ryan

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