NEW YORK — Looking to build momentum around its
Advanced Server platform, Linux distributor Red Hat
unveiled a new enterprise system
management module for its Red Hat Network.
The company made the announcement at the LinuxWorld Expo Thursday.
With built-in device monitoring, trend analysis and
other data parsing features, the latest module is
being touted by Red Hat as the next step in building
an integrated enterprise Linux platform.
The module includes “software delivery support,
configuration management, availability reporting,
trend reporting and an intuitive user interface that
doesn’t change,” said Paul Santinelli, director of product
marketing at Red Hat.
“It can support thousands of environments, with a
single back end. You can integrate it in back end (systems),” Santinelli said. “And you can manage it all from a browser.”
Other features include device monitoring, trend
analysis and service level availability reporting and
automated fault management.
At a press conference at the LinuxWorld Conference
and Expo here, company officials said the enterprise
management module framework builds on its software
delivery and software management modules it released
last summer.
It can run on back-end installs or with its Red Hat
Network Satellite server. Unlike other enterprise
systems management applications, Red Hat Network’s
monitoring functionality requires no agent based
probes, the company said, including an improved fault
management engine.
Installation fees on the satellite server version
start at $25,000, company officials said. For hosted
versions the fee is $120 per host, per year.