Category Archives: System Management

Since the last article talked about Automating System Management, let’s look at Manualizing System Management. By this we mean enabling a human to perform system management tasks. Why would we want to do this? There are several reasons. At a … Continue reading →

The future of system management is automation. As the number of systems and virtual machines being managed continues to grow, and the complexity of distributed applications increases, automation is the only way to keep things running smoothly. Specifically, we need … Continue reading →

The LMI CLI command processor is invoked by entering “LMI”. You can use it to enter either a single command or multiple commands. Entering “LMI” with no arguments puts you into interactive mode until you enter CTRL-D to exit the … Continue reading →

Key characteristics of an Enterprise Linux like Red Hat Enterprise Linux are long term support and stable interfaces. The OpenLMI Providers are designed to be stable, which allowed them to be included in the RHEL 7 Beta. On the other … Continue reading →

Getting Started OpenLMI is under active development, and its first public release on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta. Install OpenLMI Install OpenLMI can be installed by installing the openlmi package. This is … Continue reading →

I was playing with OpenLMI – I mean, testing OpenLMI – on my home network, and learned that I need to upgrade my local setup. I don’t have a local nameserver, and have fallen into the (bad) habit of not … Continue reading →

Getting Started The best place to start is with Fedora 20. OpenLMI is under active development, and there have been significant changes since the earlier releases in F18 and F19. These instructions were tested against the Fedora 20 final beta. … Continue reading →

Our discussions so far have focused on the OpenLMI agents and infrastructure on managed systems. This makes sense, as the management infrastructure has to be in place before any client applications can use it. The client side has not been … Continue reading →

A common question is “what is the difference between OpenLMI and a configuration management system like Puppet or Chef?” This is often asked with the implication that these are competitive approaches and you don’t need both. The two approaches are … Continue reading →

Managing systems with OpenLMI requires authentication at two levels: First, all communications between managed systems and client systems must go over a secure connection. Second, valid account login information must be presented to the managed system to perform operations using … Continue reading →