System management tools for unix systems?

[Aron Burns]

In article <rodgers.660262042 at clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu> rodgers at clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu writes:
>In <simon.660236994 at odin> simon at odin.pttrnl.nl (Simon van Veen) writes:
>
>>I am currently investigating the tasks of unix system managers.
>>The goal of this investigation is: can ``Artificial Intelligence''
>>be of any help in system management.
>>With system management I mean: management of system information,
>>management of datacommunication, management of disks, files, tapes,
>>printers, processes, users, security etc, etc.
>
>I shall assume that by "Artificial Intelligence" you mean an expert system.


We saw a product called ERSA ( Expert Remote Systems Assurance ) that
gathered stats on a unix system, made some intelligent guesses about  
problems and attempts to make suggestions about how to solve them
, at which point it uploads a file to a supervisor machine where a 
human decides what to do.  The product looked at kernel tuning, 
security violations, disk space, etc.  While I haven't seen it
run you might call these people to find out more:

Don Monroe
Elegant Communications Inc.
481 University Avenue
Suite 602
Toronto         Ont
M5G-2E9         
(416)595-5425  
(416)595-5439 



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