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CA Releases UniCenter for Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the ERP-marches-on dept.

Computer Associates looks like it has finally released it's UniCenter Managment Framework for Red Hat Linux. Other distros to follow soon, and you can order a free CD from CA.

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  1. What is Unicenter by Tsk · · Score: 2

    First i'm not suprise it the CAworld show this week.
    Unicenter is a package of software to monitor machines from a single "console". They have basicaly two component :
    1) AT technologie with which you'll try to monitor your machines - It can look on your file systems processes Memory usage, log files etc ... it works on a broad variety of platforms : but the most suported ones are : WinNT, Aix, HpUx and Solaris, but you'll find versions of some parts of the products for synix, SCO etc ...)
    2)EM : with which you can act on message that are send from the ganet to the console. manage some tapes and use the workload (a scheduler). tahta part is very tricky and goes low level on the system on which it runs. it is not has widely suported has the AT stuff.
    CA products are young and unmature - so installing and configuring them IS tricky (look at the number of patches available here. Unicenter comes with many options some which are great asome which sucks ....

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  2. Re:Unicenter by Noryungi · · Score: 5



    I used to work @ CA. Please let me just get a few things off my back:

    1. CA=Computer Associates=Constant Acquisition.
    This company has never produced anything intelligent or even remotely good. They just buy smaller companies, fire everyone and milk their reputations and installed base for all they are worth.

    2. Bill Gates is *not* the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). Charles Wang is the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). After buying a company, Mr Wang gather everyone around him, smiles and announces to the poor jerks: "I don't need you. CA does not need you. You are worthless little pieces of dirt and I am going to make you pay for it".

    3. Boycott CA. I am serious: this company, even more than MS, represents everything that is wrong, corrupt, greedy and disgusting in the big soul-less corporations of closed-source software.
    Their software sucks anyway.

    I worked for CA for 1 and a helf year -- the day I quit that company was the day I started breathing again.

    Enough said -- sorry for the ranting.

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  3. Unicenter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    speaking as someone with a lot of UNICENTER experience, STAY AWAY, UNICENTER is the largest comglomeration of USELESS CRAP. 2/3's of it does not work as advertised, the support center is populated by slow rheesus monkies, and the documentation is just plain wrong in MANY places.
    We've spent nearly 2 years fighting UNICENTER and the IDIOTS at CA before trashing the project and destroying the software. TIVOLI is the way to go...expect to see LINUX support there VERY SOON, and TIVOLI support seems to actually know the product the support, what a concept.

  4. WTF???? by PD · · Score: 2

    Not to disrespect CA..... I am positive that this product is a wonderful tool and will ease the jobs of millions of administrators, but

    WTF does it doo? I wish their technical people wrote that white paper. From the *Why is a framework needed* section: "Pervasively implemented frameworks promised to enable a consistent, dependable, integrated environment, with minimum overhead and maximum flexibility."

    English is my first language, but I have trouble parsing that one.

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    1. Re:WTF???? by jemhddar · · Score: 2

      Framework sounds really cool... I was in charge of looking in to the technical merits of the product before we shipped it at my company. Their sales engineers came out, showed it off, gave us some free copies, had us install it, etc etc. Sounds cool, looks cool, but actually is it useful? Doubtful. Plus, the thing they give away free is just the small version... it'd be like giving away an ide linux kernel and charging for the scsi/raid kernel. useful for a small shop, but you have to pay to get enterprise-class functionality out of it. Their pricing scheme (like everything) is on a per/seat(or processor power) basis.. so the bigger network the more money...

      The biggest lacking I found was that it wasn't intuitive. I can manage a novell, linux, or nt server, but I have to know 3 different sets of utilities and interfaces. If it gave one good interface to manage ANY server, and manage it well, it would rock. It's has some of the functionality of Novell's NDS but lacks the interoperability--most notably doesn't offer anything to Novell or mixed shops.

      --Cant wait for the NDS for linux port.

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  5. Stay away!!! by NateDawg · · Score: 3

    I went to the UT-210 Unicenter Basics course and was VERY unimpressed with the product. The developers couldn't see the forest for the trees. I think they tried to make it too complex a system while they disregarded basic reliability, the cornerstone of any good network management/monitoring suite.

    After 15 minutes of poking around, Unicenter crashed. I had to switch machines because the instructor said a total reinstall of NT and Unicenter was needed. I'm good but not that good, I mean 15 minutes and I didn't change a single setting!!!

    The software constantly showed incorrect network settings. Machines were up/down when they weren't. I had my dead machine off for 3 hours before Unicenter noticed.

    My company is a CA VAR, and even with our great pricing I can't recommend Unicenter.

  6. Unicenter also for the Palm by KevinRemhof · · Score: 2

    At CA-World in New Orleans this week, Palm Computing and CA will announce an extension to Unicenter which will support Palm devices.

    This is a good move. I forsee easier management and reference with the Palm as a tool. Using the Symbol Technologies Palm Pilots with bar-code readers could be great. What a great way to manager a network!

    For a little more info, go here.