1 IT Infrastructure and Management
1.1 Summary
Within a large Enterprise, there are typically distinct groups, Operations and IT, that are separately tasked to manage data center operations versus end-user computational resources including departmental or workgroup servers. In smaller companies, these services are often combined in a single functional group. This usage case focuses on the domain of IT and in some cases its broader interface to services provided by the data center such as defined earlier in the data center usage case.
In widescale use currently, Systems Management software is used to address the concerns of IT typically in the areas of: Configuration Management, Software Distribution, Asset Management, License Management, and Help Desk. In the realm of CDDLM, we will focus primarily on Configuration Management and Software Distribution, though it is understood that much of the remaining functionality will be serviced elsewhere in the Grid.
In a typical usage......
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