Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!jmm
From: jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald)
Subject: Re: System management tools for unix systems?
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.171245.7561@eci386.uucp>
Keywords: unix management
Reply-To: jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <simon.660236994@odin> <rodgers.660262042@clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu> <15872@ists.ists.ca>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 90 17:12:45 GMT


In article <15872@ists.ists.ca> aronb@gkcl.UUCP (Aron Burns) writes:
|In article <rodgers.660262042@clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu> rodgers@clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu writes:
|>In <simon.660236994@odin> simon@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 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^   this is our fax number, and is only opertional during
		 business hours.
|
|
|
|Aaron Burns      	     "Nothing I say on the net is binding
|aronb@gkcl.ists.ca         to our corporation"
|Toronto, Ontario         "Life is a forge, and the purest metal
|(416)392-4310             comes from the hottest fire"

or you can send email to me...

Thanks for the plug Aaron, I was just about to risk the rath
of the commercialism haters and follow up myself.

If requested, I can provide additional technical details in this
newsgroup (but I will try to avoid blatant advertisms).
-- 
Cure the common code...                      | John Macdonald
...Ban Basic      - Christine Linge          |   jmm@eci386


-- 
Cure the common code...                      | John Macdonald
...Ban Basic      - Christine Linge          |   jmm@eci386