This book provides a strategic and technical perspective on the practices necessary for good distributed systems management for network managers and engineers. Features investigates the interplay of management skills needed to develop and present the case for a managed syste includes a checklist of points to be considered when planning, installing and maintaining a distributed syste covers managing distributed systems securit provides an overview of current product types

Rationale for distributed systems management	p. 1
Trends in corporate information processing	p. 2
The need for management	p. 3
Distributed systems	p. 5
What is distributed systems management?	p. 7
Strategy for distributed systems management	p. 14
Management services for distributed processing	p. 17
Models for distributed systems management	p. 19
Uses and users of distributed systems	p. 29
Characteristics of organizations	p. 31
Business sectors	p. 32
Business cultures	p. 38
People in distributed system management	p. 41
Management implications	p. 46
Business aspects of distributed systems management	p. 53
Informing corporate management	p. 54
Categories of information technology management	p. 56
Establishing the requirement	p. 57
Risk assessment and management	p. 59
Financial considerations	p. 60
Managing the implementation	p. 61
Business recommendations	p. 62
Management functions and management services	p. 65
Management activities and functions	p. 67
Monitoring	p. 70
Services supporting monitoring	p. 71
Fault handling	p. 74
Performance management	p. 84
Configuration management	p. 93
Accounting	p. 97
Name management	p. 103
Interrelationship of functions and services	p. 107
Security and distributed systems	p. 111
Special factors of security in distributed systems	p. 112
Security framework	p. 115
Security mechanisms	p. 118
Security policies	p. 124
Risk assessment and management	p. 133
Managing security	p. 134
Security standards	p. 135
Supporting services	p. 141
Support service characteristics	p. 142
Business risk management	p. 143
Auditing and accountability	p. 145
Help services	p. 148
Directories and related information services	p. 153
User-related management tools	p. 156
Support environments	p. 160
The automation of support services	p. 164
Installation, operation and maintenance	p. 167
Installation	p. 168
System integration and testing	p. 172
Operations and user support	p. 178
Documentation needs	p. 180
Maintenance	p. 183
Distributed systems management concepts	p. 189
Objects and object models	p. 190
Domains	p. 194
Management policies	p. 206
Policies and objects	p. 210
Authorization policies	p. 215
Management control concepts	p. 221
Delegation of authority using management role objects	p. 223
Responsibility	p. 225
Standards for distributed systems management	p. 231
Relevant standards activities	p. 232
Organization of OSI management standards	p. 233
Conformance to OSI management standards	p. 247
Alternative approaches to management protocols	p. 250
Other CCITT management standards	p. 252
Open issues in management standards	p. 253
Current practice and future directions	p. 261
Distributed systems management products today	p. 262
The need for tool integration	p. 265
Future directions	p. 268
Applying open standards to management products	p. 271
The application of distributed systems management	p. 273
Appendix A Checklist for the distributed systems manager	p. 283
Appendix B Terms and abbreviations	p. 295
Subject Index	p. 305
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