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Systems management refers to enterprise-wide Administration of distributed Computer Systems . Systems management is strongly influenced by Network Management initiatives in Telecommunications . System management may involve one or more of the following tasks:

  • Hardware inventories.

  • Server availability monitoring and metrics.

  • Software inventory and installation.

  • Anti-virus and anti- Malware management.

  • User's activities monitoring.

  • Capacity monitoring.

  • Security management.

  • Storage management.

  • Network capacity and utilization monitoring.



FUNCTIONS


Functional groups are provided according to ITU-T X.700 standard. This framework is also known as FCAPS .

; Fault Management





However this standard should not be treated as comprehensive, there are obvious omissions. Some are recently emerging sectors, some are implied and some are just not listed. The primary ones are Real-time Application Relationship Discovery which supports Configuration Management, Security Information and Event Management functions (known as SIEM), Workload Scheduling, Business Impact functions (also known as Business Systems Management) and Capacity Management. Performance Management functions can also be split into end-to-end performance measuring and infrastructure component measuring functions. Another recently emerging sector is Operational Intelligence which focusses on real-time monitoring of business events that relate to business processes, not unlike Business Activity Monitoring


STANDARDS


; DMTF
: CIM , WBEM , WS-Management , DEN , SMASH
; IETF
: SNMP , NETCONF
; ISO and ITU-T
: TMN , CMIP , GDMO
; OGC and ISO
: ITIL
; JCP
: JMX


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