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Bardcom 20:53, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
PC Management Software is listed for AFD. Some of its content may be of use in expanding this article. --LesleyW 13:10, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes! There shouldn't be separate articles for System management and Systems management. This should be fixed asap. johnpseudo 20:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
What happened to the proposed merger? Kenavant 18:38, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Please provide additional info about BMC PATROL product such as BMC Software well known customers and technical background (standards and technologies) of this product. Or write an article about this company and product family. — Anrie Nord 15:57, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I've added a link to http://www.lansweeper.com Wikipedia should promote more freeware, system administrators with a limited budget like me will benefit from it.
Recently Djbclark has changed the article by including some free and open source software links in the beginning. With all respect to the open source movement, the most known systems management systems are proprietary in fact. Djbclark, though I have the software engineering background, I'm familiar with systems and network management stuff. But I've never heard about the tools you mentioned. I suppose those products are not systems management systems, but just configuration management tools. Maybe you could find another place to compare open source and proprietary products, such as list of systems management systems or even better comparison of open source configuration management software. I guess you've already found these ones and made the changes you wanted to.
— Anrie Nord 2007-04-17 22:20Z
These are the disputed changes.
— Djbclark 23:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I think the domain comment in prescient. You seem to be operating in the domain of lots of management buzzwords, that requires buy-in to a lot of standards and concepts that are considered worse than useless by many people in the systems management domains I am familiar with; and yet "systems management" is a generic phrase that I would argue people looking in an encyclopedia as "Managing Systems".
In particular the phrase "manage the IT infrastructure of an enterprise" is itself POV, because it assumes that this topic is only of interest to large companies. "Enterprise" is a nebulous word that has very little information content; do you mean "scales to X number of systems" or "can configure and monitor network devices" or something else? How would the reader know? In any case by using the word "enterprise" we have defined a subset of problems in the systems management arena, not the entire arena. The article is not "Enterprise systems management".
I think the easiest way to resolve this would be to rename the article and/or otherwise indicate that (a) the article is about software that claims to implement a set of FCAPS functions (thus objectively eliminating most/all of the FLOSS software), (b) describe in plain English how software that implements FCAPS functions differs from software that doesn't do this, (c) give a reference to each listed piece of software that indicates implementing FCAPS functions is an aim of the software, and (d) indicate that there are other domains of people/software interested in systems management that do not buy in to any/many of the standards listed on the page.
— Djbclark 00:22, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
I've been working in systems management software development for almost ten years, and I'd have to agree that the most popular, widely adopted systems management software solutions are the closed source solutions provided by major corporations, such as IBM's Tivoli (or Director), Microsoft's Systems Management Server and HP's Open View. I would say those are the major ones. The rest... well... not so much. - Plakskull 18:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
the following http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=systematic+management&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en --222.64.223.131 (talk) 09:24, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
This article is written from a computer/IT perspective only. Systems management is a whole field of managing different systems. Computer infrastructure is only one of these fields. The article should at least make mention of this. 83.86.4.72 (talk) 11:49, 15 June 2011 (UTC)