This page contains some of our users stories. They are a quick and simple way to present you the big advantages of Symbolic Management Platform
Provisioning
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| IT Managers |
SysAdmins, Developers |
- I can have all new systems under control, using reports and analysis web interfaces to see what is happening on my networks
- I can define a group of people dedicated to write the "profiles" of machines, and another group dedicated to use it
- Managing real server or virtual machine is transparent for the users
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- I can provision new machines in few seconds, with different pre-configured profiles (no human interaction required)
- I can install a new (read and virtual) server in New York when I'm in London (remotely, over slow geographically networks)
- I can provision "bare-metal" systems
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Management
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| IT Managers |
SysAdmins, Developers |
- I can define users, roles and custom permissions
- I can attach Symbolic Enterprise Platform on my J2EE/JEE enterprise authentication systems
- I can use Kerberos, LDAP and Active Directory
- I can manage whole network
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- I see only servers where I'm the responsible admin
- I can run a command in real-time for a particular group of servers
- I can switch off all my machines in a while
- I can control Lunix, Aix, Solaris machines
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Configuration Management
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| IT Managers |
SysAdmins, Developers |
- I can indetify my configurations Items (users, packages, policies....)
- All configurations are repetible
- I've got audit and reporting tools to monitor changes management (who, when, what)
- I administer the push in production (I'm the only one that can do it)
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- I can commit and rollback my configurations
- I define just one profile, then I deploy thousens of servers whit it
- I can test my configurations in a staging environment, then ask my boss to push all configs in production
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