Our Objective: To provide a business-oriented briefing for our general membership and to raise awareness of key system management issues and topics.
Audience: These tutorials give a basic understanding of the subject and the issues and are best suited to attendees who are either new to the subject or wish to view the subject from a business rather than a purely technical viewpoint. These briefings could be considered as a primer for those considering active participation in the System Management Program Group.
Format: A half-day session consisting of a brief introduction to The Open Group System Management Program plus two ninety minute sessions with opportunities for audience questions and answers.
Tuesday 21 July at 8.30 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction: "The Work of System
Management Program Group"
by Karl Schopmeyer, Credit Lyonnais (Chair)
9.00 a.m. - Session 1: "The State of
Distributed Management 1998"
by Richard L Ptak, VP, Solutions for Enterprise Management
D. H. Brown Associates, Inc.
A review of the solutions, trends and issues in enterprise focused distributed systems and network management. A comparative look at the major solutions in the market today including a recommended solution selection process based on matching operational and product design concepts.
Richard Ptak has twenty five years of experience in the telecommunications and client/server based information technology industries. Richard and his group consult on the evaluation of distributed computing projects, strategies and architectures for both vendors and solution users. The current field list for his group includes ABN AMRO, Bull, Hewlett Packard, NCR, Sun Systems, and Tivoli. During eight years in Europe Richard worked as an area product marketing manager and senior consultant in the application of Open Systems, with such clients as IBM, Volvo, CERN and Her Majesty's Government in the UK. While in Europe he served on the X/Open Board of Directors.In addition to his periodic column in Network World, his articles and opinions on Open Systems and distributed Systems Management solutions regularly appear in Business Communications Review, Communications Week, Telecommunications, Data Trends, Journal of Information Systems Management, PC Week and Information Week. Richard Ptak holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago, and a Master's Degree in Operations Research and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University.
10.30 a.m. - Break
11.00 a.m. - Session 2:"Applications
Management"
by John Sweitzer, Tivoli Systems
Managing applications in a distributed environment is a challenge because the environment itself is complex and it requires integrating the staffs responsible for the various points in the application life cycle. This session will summarize why application management is important and discuss some of the ways the industry is actually addressing the challenges. One of the industry efforts, Desktop Management Task Force Common Information Model initiative, will be covered in detail to illustrate how the challenges are being addressed. In particular, Version 2 of Application Model provides a robust structure that combines the proven approaches of other industry efforts. This session will review the key classes and associations in the application management model using a realistic example. The discussion will also illustrate how the model can be used by a variety of management tools.
John W. Sweitzer is a Consulting Engineer for Tivoli Systems. John's career has involved a variety of technical and management positions associated with systems management ranging back to 1981. Currently, John's is focusing on managing applications in distributed environments. This includes chairing the Application Management Working Group of the Desktop Management Task Force.
Mr. Sweitzer is interested in developing technologies which will facilitate the integration of software systems using techniques pioneered in the database and the artificial intelligence disciplines. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Penn State University and a M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.
