Hardware and performance monitoring

MUST READ Is systems management software ready for RSS? ARTICLE - RSS has gotten popular on the Web for its ability to filter information on the Internet. Now there is talk that RSS could be used in the data center. Lights out management: How to administer servers from the Bahamas TIP - While there are many remote management solutions out there, I've found the lights out management (LOM) built into many modern servers is superior to many of the alternatives. Log management eases SAS 70 auditing burden ARTICLE - Software delivery firm Intraware uses Splunk, a log management tool, to search log files and generate reports for SAS 70 auditors, saving time on SOX compliance. How much is your agent getting? ARTICLE - A crop of management software companies are moving from agent-based systems monitoring to agentless programs. Despite the shift, agentless systems are not a standalone solution.

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	HP downsizes data center cooling monitor: News in brief SearchDataCenter.com | 12 Jun 2009 ARTICLE - In today's news in brief, HP scales down its data center monitoring product, a new data center may use hydroelectric power, and the Planet will open an eighth facility.

	Zenoss upgrades IT monitoring software to vie with Big Four SearchDataCenter.com | 04 Jun 2009 ARTICLE - IT monitoring software provider Zenoss has introduced a new version of its commercial IT management tool with new cloud computing, virtualization and agentless monitoring features.

	Indemnification, support woes plague open source systems management SearchDataCenter.com | 18 May 2009 ARTICLE - With a recession and growing enterprise acceptance of open source, open source systems management tools should do well. But many IT managers prefer proprietary tools.

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	Capacity planning tools tutorial for Linux and Unix 06 May 2009 TIP - Effective capacity planning is a proactive way of ensuring that your data center servers will not prematurely run out of space or horsepower. Learn the tools available to help you.

	Using HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 5.2 for systems management and monitoring 04 Feb 2009 TIP - Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co.'s Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 5.2 offers systems management and monitoring for HP servers or WMI-, SNMP- or WBEM-enabled systems.

	Installing Nagios on Solaris for network and server monitoring 13 Jan 2009 TIP - Nagios, a free, open source network and server monitoring system, can benefit your IT infrastructure. Learn how to install Nagios on a Solaris 10 system in this tip.

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	Monitoring your data center with Nagios: A discussion with Taylor Dondich SearchDataCenter.com | 03 Jan 2007 EXPERT Q&A - GroundWork Open Source senior developer Taylor Dondich discusses open sourc network monitoring with Nagios and the future of open source software in the data center.

	Network Monitoring With Nagios 11 Dec 2006 BOOKS - A review by open source expert James Turnbull of Network Monitoring with Nagios by Taylor Dondich; links and resources.

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	event forwarding 02 May 2007 WORD - Event forwarding is the transmission of information to a centralized computer concerning events that take place on remote computers or servers. In this context, an event is any occurrence that affects a file, program or ...

	DCML 08 Mar 2005 WORD - DCML (Data Center Markup Language), based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), is a data format and model for exchanging information that describes a data center environment. DCML is intended to provide a common description ...

	lights-out management 12 Oct 2003 WORD - Lights-out management (LOM) is the ability for a system administrator to monitor and manage servers by remote control. A complete LOM system consists of a hardware component called the LOM module and a program that ...

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