[Infrastructures] The Major Products

[Pete Ehlke]

On Wed Sep 28, 2005 at 18:19:36 -0400, Todd Snyder wrote:                       
>Good day all,                                                                  
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>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).                                
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>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.                                
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Opsware Server Automation System.                                               
                                                                                
The Home Depot uses Opsware ( note, I am not affliated with either The          
Home Depot or Opsware ) to deploy to and manage something like 7,000            
solaris/aix/windows servers in a couple thousand standalone retail              
locations around the country. If I recall correctly they are doing              
several code pushes a day to all those servers, in something like a 20          
minute window per push. The Home Depot deployment posture would seem to         
have a lot in common with yours; I'd suggest getting Opsware in for a           
demo, and specifically asking about the Home Depot deployment.                  
                                                                                
-Pete