{"id":53,"date":"2006-06-01T05:57:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T13:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2007-12-04T09:04:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T17:04:42","slug":"aduva-suns-network-services-n1-competing-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/01\/aduva-suns-network-services-n1-competing-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Aduva + Sun&#8217;s network services + N1 > competing solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA simple equation to be sure. If you&#8217;ve got to manage patches and configurations on Linux or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/solaris\/\">Solaris<\/a> machines, you should pay attention to this post.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s what to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baselines &#8211; Create groups of changes to be applied\n<li>Automated application &#8211; Apply a single change, group of changes, and\/or baseline to one or more systems\n<li>Simulation &#8211; Model proposed changes to your environment before commiting to them\n<li>Rollback &#8211; The &#8220;oops&#8221; protection, remove changes automatically\n<li>Auditing &#8211; Know who made which changes when to aid in compliance\n<li>Aggregation &#8211; Pull bits from many different places to a staging ground, mix and match the content in automated change tasks\n<li>Introspection &#8211; Don&#8217;t trust what the description says, active comparison of symbols in changes vs. claims in descriptions (metadata)\n<li>Provisioning &#8211; Deploy configurations to bare metal as workloads and demands change\n<li>Management &#8211; Be it a data center, an application service, or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.network.com\/\">grid<\/a>, actively manage the assets for workload, performance, cost, and availability.\n<li>Realtime &#8211; Always up, always up-to-date. Continuous real-time content.\n<li>Electronic Prognostics &#8211; Telemetry-based prediction of what will happen based on statistical models of what has happened across a broad population segment.\n<li>Risk Quantification &#8211; Availability Risk Index (ARI) determins not only the severity negative consequence for any known risk, but also the probability of occurance in time period X.\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your vendor(s) can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t do this, come see Sun. We&#8217;ve got a solution for you&#8230;..I&#8217;ll share it this summer. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are some hints:<\/p>\n<p>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.network.com\/\">Sun Grid<\/a><br \/>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/products\/system_manager\/\">N1 System Manager<\/a><br \/>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aduva.com\/index.php?page=onstage_overview\">Aduva OnStage<\/a><br \/>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun.com\/service\/sunupdate\/index.html\">Sun Update Connection<\/a><br \/>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun.com\/service\/preventive\/\">Sun Preventive Services<\/a><br \/>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/products\/service_provisioning\/index.xml\">N1 Service Provisioning Server<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<small>Technorati Tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/patching\" rel=\"tag\"> Patching<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/system+administration\"> System Administration<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/systems+management\"> Systems Management<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/grid\"> Grid<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/software+as+a+service\"> Software as a Service<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple equation to be sure. If you&#8217;ve got to manage patches and configurations on Linux or Solaris machines, you should pay attention to this post. Here&#8217;s what to consider: Baselines &#8211; Create groups of changes to be applied Automated application &#8211; Apply a single change, group of changes, and\/or baseline to one or more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}