Server Management
2007-12-25 1:57:00
I work in a data center that has about 150 Sun Servers consisting of at
least one of every server that Sun currently manufactures (except some of
the new small servers and the blade technologies). I inherited this data
center in December and completed its move from Denver, CO to Charlotte, NC
in late May.
I am now working with my team to manage this collection of servers that will
grow to more than 200 over the next 6 months. These inherited servers are
mostly Solaris 8, but are at many different patch levels with a multitude of
configuration differences.
What we want to do is this:
- manage all of the servers at a single console app or client and open this
up ina role-base management for Tier II support
- group servers by application, environment (DEV/QA/PROD/etc.), Operating
System (Solaris 7/8/9), or by type (www/oracle/sybase/weblogic/etc.)
- initiate an application/patch installation, script run, or configuration
change on a whole group at once
- track changes to files (sort of a host-based IDS in a way)
- complete application and hardware configuration (down to RTOS and OBP)
logged to a central database for reporting and DR purposes
So far, we've found BladeLogic and Opsware. Both do these things. We've
also been looking at our own home-grown solutions utilizing open source
technologies. I would like to entertain more vendors than just two and the
home-grown solutions could cause more work in mainenance and fixes to
scripts and processes.
Now, for my question... What tools/packages/applications have you used to
solve the above problems in the data centers in which you have worked and
about how many servers did you manage?
Thanks for any information. I will summarize.
Ben Green
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