From: marier@blkcmb.zso.dec.com (Shawn Marier)
Subject: Re: Information requested on Unix management tools
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:08:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.125037.2183@cs.cornell.edu> wood@cs.cornell.edu (Mark D. Wood) writes:
>
>I would like pointers to papers describing Unix management tools, for
>example, those using SNMP (or CMOT).  (Or even more experimental
>systems).  




DEC FullSail - GUI Driven Distributed System Management for ULTRIX

CONTACT

Salley Anderson, (206) 865-8917

HIGHLIGHTS

o  Cut UNIX system management costs

o  Easily monitor for incipient overloads and other error situations

o  Graphical user interfaces make DEC FullSail easy and fun to use

o  Orderable now for shipment in September 1992

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

DEC FullSail is an integrated, off-the-shelf, GUI-driven, system management 
package for ULTRIX that lets you manage your computing resources more 
effectively with less effort.  It is ideal for distributed systems of a few 
to one hundred nodes.  DEC FullSail simplifies day-to-day tasks with 
increased capabilities for managing users, file systems, and monitoring 
distributed UNIX system performance. 

DEC FullSail extends and complements our existing storage and system 
administration products to reduce the cost of operations and protect 
critical customer information.  These products include: DEC Network Save and 
Restore (DECnsr) for network backups of the heterogeneous environment, 
StorageServer 100 to provide high capacity local and network storage, ULTRIX 
Disk Shadowing to protect critical data, and the DECmcc family of network 
administration products.

DEC FullSail consists of four components including the Navigator, Account 
Manager, File-System Manager, and Performance Manager. An easy-to-learn 
Motif-based graphical user interface makes it easy to access DEC FullSail 
from any workstation or X-terminal on the network.

With DEC FullSail, system managers can make changes to all systems without 
regard to the current availability of the managed systems.  The DEC FullSail 
Delegation Service stores change requests in a centralized database, and 
distributes them to the managed systems instantly if available or in the 
background if certain nodes are unreachable or busy.

Navigator -- The Central Control Point

The Navigator is the front-end to the other components, providing consistent 
access mechanisms.   It lets you divide your systems into different 
groupings or "management sets" according to your own criteria. You might, 
for example, group systems by functional area, system type, or by location. 
This lets you manage your environment in a way that best meets your 
requirements. Through its security mechanisms, Navigator lets you control 
who has access to the different management groupings and applications.

Account Manager -- Easily Handles User Accounts

The Account Manager makes it easy to add, modify, delete, and review user 
accounts and keep account information synchronized across a set of 
distributed systems.  It manages such things as a user's disk quota, login 
shell, home directory, or group membership. If you want to add a new account 
to a group of machines and one system is down, the Account Manager updates 
the database immediately and then automatically updates the other system 
when it comes back online. It is capable of executing custom routines when 
adding a user, and has batch capabilities if you need to add a large number 
of users at the same time. It supports the use of NFS mounted home 
directories, and accommodates environments using a local password file, the 
Network Information Service, or Hesiod.

File-System Manager -- Simplifies Configuring and Managing File Systems

The File-System Manager lets you easily configure and monitor file system 
mount points and add new file systems into your computing environment. It 
becomes fast and easy to make a new disk NFS-accessible to hundreds of 
users.  And it lets you monitor every file system on the network thus 
locating potential space problems. Through a monitor display, you can 
quickly see what file systems have the most or least capacity available. 

Performance Manager -- Easy Monitoring of System Activity

The Performance Manager can display the activity on CPUs and storage devices 
for a continuous real-time picture of performance in your computing 
environment. It can monitor and display load average, swapping rate, free 
memory, memory-in-use, disk throughput rates, buffer cache utilization, NFS 
statistics and error rates and many other items. It shows you where 
resources may need to be modified to increase availability and performance. 
Data may be graphically monitored in realtime or archived for later 
analysis.  When archiving data you can select the time interval and the 
maximum size of the archive.   The Performance Manager archives data in 
popular spreadsheet formats for use by industry-standard spreadsheets, and 
statistical analysis and 4GL tools, to display and analyze the data for MIS 
budgeting.

Both the Performance Manager and the File-System Manager let you set 
thresholds on items of interest and be notified when they are crossed.       

SUPPORT SERVICES

Standard Software Services will be available for DEC FullSail, including 
Layered Product Services (LPS) with appropriate system-service contracts, 
and Media and Documentation Distribution Services (MDDS).  These services 
include: Telephone assistance, right-to-use new versions, critical on-site 
software support, Digital software information network, software media and 
documentation updates.

Although customers can install DEC FullSail themselves, installation 
services are available.
  
SPECIFICATIONS  

Hardware 

There are no hardware limitations.

Software

o  The database and graphical user interface support ULTRIX RISC V4.2 and 
   higher
o  The client supports ULTRIX RISC and VAX V4.0 and higher  
o  ULTRIX SQL V2.0 must be installed on the same machine as the database




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Shawn Del Marier                                marier@zso.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation                   ...!decwrl!rust.enet!marier
DECwest Engineering/Seattle			(206) 865-8886
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