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Systems management is concerned with maintaining a reliable, scalable,
available and security-rich IT infrastructure. It provides the tools
and methods to manage the entire lifecycle of distributed computing
and network environments, and supports IT process models such as
the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
Our systems management research effort is currently focused on
two areas:
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The automatic discovery and characterization
of information technology assets and the population of the corresponding
configuration items (CI) in a configuration and management database
(CMDB). Having accurate and up-to-date configuration data is
a prerequisite for a high-quality and efficient asset and system
management process. |
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The creation of composite management applications (Comano)
using Web services technology and standards such as Web services
distributed management (WSDM) and Web services unified management
(WSUM) integrating both proprietary and open source management
applications to manage servers, applications and storage devices. |
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