Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.5 (Non-Platform Software Release C.65.00 (30216-90291)

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Data Center Management
Enterprise Management Solution
Enterprise Management Solution
by Saurabh Kelkar
Commercial Systems Division
The Current Need
As data centers become larger, the complexity of managing them increases multifold.
Today’s challenge is to manage distributed, heterogeneous IT environment that comprises
various systems. The level of sophisticated management has to be extended towards
business critical applications and service management, where scalability, reliability,
robustness, and optimized down time are the key factors. At the same time, we have to
keep the Data Center Management simple enough such that the customer spends a
minimal amount of effort on developing the skill set to use them.
Today there is a whole range of Enterprise Management solutions available in the market.
When we look at the entire collection of the solutions, we realize that we have some
opportunities to fill some gaps in terms of offerings that are available on the HP 3000
platform. The HP 3000 needs to get integrated seamlessly in today’s EM setup to enable
the users to manage it with little or no extra overheads.
Keeping this need in mind, we formed an Enterprise Management Solutions’ group, who
can focus on fulfilling the user communities’ needs in this area. We would like to let you
know the roadmap for the same, that is, the direction we intend to move.
Recent Offering
Among our recent offerings, we are pleased to provide the Legato Backup Solution and free
availability of EasyTime on the Fundamental Operating System (FOS).
The Legato Backup solution enables the HP 3000 to be backed up in a heterogeneous
machine environment. Today we have many customers whose data centers are spread
across great distances. Not only that, customers have a plethora of machines from
different vendors for different tasks in their data centers. Legato Backup solution becomes
an ideal solution for such an environment.
EasyTime allows users to work on the HP 3000 effectively without needing to know much
about the Command Interpreter of the MPE/iX OS. It allows the data center manager to
make group of commands that are easy to use and tailored to his need.
Added to this, we have made an effort to make the MPE/iX programming documentation
better and easily available – for example, we have made some of the documentation
available on web for easy accessibility.