Management software solutions in the industry
Well, this article doesn’t take you into any depth of
management software solutions. However, this article gives a broad insight into
the current industry trends in management software solutions.
When we say a management system we are using very vague term
in fact. There are many different management systems to achieve different
goals.
As per my knowledge so far the NMS software particularly
meant to manage the devices from a single vender does have most of the FCAPS
functionalities in it. Which means single software is used to achieve
Configuration management, performance management, fault management &
monitoring, Security management & Accounting management in few cases.
However, the management software which supports multiple vendors may be
different for different FCAPS functionalities. Suppose one software for Network
monitoring for multiple vendor NEs(ex. EMC smarts), one for Configuration
management for multiple vendor NEs(Ex. HP openView), one for performance
management for multiple vendors NEs(Ex. Infovista)
.
Apart from
managing the networks, there are management solutions for managing applications,
systems & virtual devices. Application management software mainly manages
and monitors the application service/software running on particular host like http service, ftp service etc(ex. EMC ACM & HP HPOM).Many times
the need of managing the devices like power(eg UPS)arises, in that case we need
separate system management software. Now, virtualization has become the
emerging technology. Hence for managing the virtual hosts/servers we need the
separate management solution.
Having said
all that above, there may be few management software solutions which take care of
most of the above mentioned type of management software solutions.
Here is the list of some management software solutions (of
course neither of them is complete management solution to achieve all kinds of
management solutions mentioned above):
1. Large players: IBM Tivoli , CA
2. Parasitic players: Monolith,
Rivermuse, SevOne, Log Matrix, etc.
3. Parts players: Mimic, Tavve,
Bluestripe, Abilisoft, etc.
4. Cloud Players: CoolAlerts,
Silverback, etc.
5. Open Source Players:
OpenNMS, Nagios, etc.
6. Root Open Source Tools: NET-SNMP, nmap, etc
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