While recent World Wide Web management efforts offer some glimmer of hope, there have been more obstacles than progress toward solutions for several years. Among the problems are a general lack of standards for interoperability, tools that offer only point management solutions and the inability of management solutions to scale upward and meet the demands of large networks. The scale gets out of control rapidly and has a dramatic impact. Complicating the ability to set up automated management routines are the very natures of the different systems being managed, Lanum adds. Among problems that make it difficult if not impossible to manage multiple systems in large networks are three key issues.
Large networks tend to have multiple systems being used for different purposes.
Management of heterogeneous systems is complicated because each OS has its own design characteristics. Introducing new technologies and operating systems increases complexity. This last point figures prominently in most computing environments. That frenetic pace seriously impacts enterprise management work as more vendors' technology gets introduced into networks. At a fundamental level, it's difficult to get operating systems to interoperate with one another.