kramer@prandt.UUCP.UUCP (05/13/86)
I am looking of information about automated system management for a large number of heterogeneous UNIX systems. I am including in system management such things as operator control and interface to different systems, system performance and usage monitoring, network performance monitoring, system and network configuration modification in response to changes in the environment, handling operator requests, and other tasks. We need to put together a system which will automate as much of this as possible, hopefully with an Expert System or AI approach. The processors range for PCs to Silicon Graphics IRIS to Amdahls to a Cray-2. The flavors of Unix range from VAX 4.2bsd to UTS System V. The networks are TCP/IP based LANs and WANs (wide area nets). Of course, all these components will be changing with time, so the system has to be flexible. There are some hardware/operating system specific AI systems which do some of this work, documented in IBM journals. There are also some custom systems which have been developed, for example at Los Alamos, but I do not know of a system which is designed for UNIX machines or which is a comprehensive AI approach. Can anyone give pointers to existing studies, work, systems or products which would satisfy some of our needs? Thanks a lot. Bill Kramer kramer@ames-nas.arpa