UNIX® Fault Management: A Guide for System Administration

Chapter 9. Enterprise Management

Much of this book is focused on tools for monitoring a single UNIX system. You may, however, be responsible for monitoring tens or hundreds of systems. Also, it is likely that you are managing a heterogeneous environment in which it is important to monitor heterogeneous systems consistently. For example, a company may have decided to migrate from UNIX to NT, but does not want to replace their UNIX applications, such as SAP. The company may choose to keep a portion of the application (e.g., the database server) on UNIX, while moving the application servers to NT. Using consistent tools for monitoring different platforms can make your job easier. Standards such as SNMP are especially important for this type of environment. ...