Moonlight Systems Releases Moonlight3 for Managing Data Centers
📅 - Moonlight Systems, Inc. (moonlight.com), a provider of datacenter management software for enterprises, today announced the availabilityof Moonlight3, its flagship product, designed to automate the manualprocesses required to manage high-end servers. Moonlight3 has been deployedin leading enterprise data centers, including Digex, Yahoo!, Ecolab, Avastaand Accumedia.
Developed to address the specific complexities and the heterogeneous natureof server software, Moonlight3 reduces the inefficiencies that result frommanually maintaining enterprise data centers. By centralizing and automatingday-to-day management activities, Moonlight3 enables IT organizations todeploy all software applications, updates, and patches in a consistentfashion and take the necessary steps to manage their networks. By ensuringsoftware consistency and monitoring system states, Moonlight3 helps improveoverall system reliability, the company says.
"Moonlight's approach to controlling diversity within the server environmentis to assume that change will always exist and that this diversity must beaddressed. Companies such as Marimba have excelled at desktop management andmaking machines uniform," said Bobby Mukherjee, CEO of Moonlight Systems."Moonlight3 excels at management of the data center, in a way that allows ITto tackle the diversity of high-end servers through automation."
Moonlight3 automates the enterprise data center, eliminating the manualtasks involved in day-to-day software management activities, includingmonitoring and capturing configurations, distributing software and updatesto servers, auditing and analyzing file changes states and proactivelymanaging system states.
Key features of Moonlight3 are:
Rapid Modeling of Complex Configurations - Moonlight3 allows ITadministrators to easily capture all shared and host-specific files (such aspasswords and license key files) into a reusable configuration model. Themodel can then be used as a file by file point of comparison to ensure thatunique configurations are deployed quickly and remain consistent afterinstallation.Efficient, Large Scale Distribution - Moonlight3 establishesspecific servers as "satellites" or proxies that will send software to, orcapture information from, remote hosts or groups of hosts. This allows forautomatic load balancing and faster performance when managing large remoteserver farms. Moonlight3 also minimizes drag on the network as it copiesconfiguration information to satellites only once and distributes deltasover time.Multi-Version Rollback - Moonlight3's modeling capability allows foreasy rollback to previous working versions of an entire software applicationor system stack. Built on a robust database infrastructure, Moonlight tracksall previous system states, not just the most recent. This rollbackfunctionality saves time and expense when administrators need to maintaindifferent versions of the same application in different test or productionenvironments.Granular Auditing - Moonlight3 captures information on unique filesper server, as well as the detailed text differences within those files.This allows IT to determine precisely where the server error occurred, toeliminate time spent troubleshooting, and to speed server redeployment.Detailed Session Tracking - Moonlight3 provides a keystroke log ofchanges to specific configuration files, specifically identifying whichindividual user initiated changes to shared environments and when. Sessiontracking enables service providers to better manage shared service levelagreements and to have a process for controlling "configuration drift"caused by unauthorized changes.
Developed to address the specific complexities and the heterogeneous natureof server software, Moonlight3 reduces the inefficiencies that result frommanually maintaining enterprise data centers. By centralizing and automatingday-to-day management activities, Moonlight3 enables IT organizations todeploy all software applications, updates, and patches in a consistentfashion and take the necessary steps to manage their networks. By ensuringsoftware consistency and monitoring system states, Moonlight3 helps improveoverall system reliability, the company says.
"Moonlight's approach to controlling diversity within the server environmentis to assume that change will always exist and that this diversity must beaddressed. Companies such as Marimba have excelled at desktop management andmaking machines uniform," said Bobby Mukherjee, CEO of Moonlight Systems."Moonlight3 excels at management of the data center, in a way that allows ITto tackle the diversity of high-end servers through automation."
Moonlight3 automates the enterprise data center, eliminating the manualtasks involved in day-to-day software management activities, includingmonitoring and capturing configurations, distributing software and updatesto servers, auditing and analyzing file changes states and proactivelymanaging system states.
Key features of Moonlight3 are:
Rapid Modeling of Complex Configurations - Moonlight3 allows ITadministrators to easily capture all shared and host-specific files (such aspasswords and license key files) into a reusable configuration model. Themodel can then be used as a file by file point of comparison to ensure thatunique configurations are deployed quickly and remain consistent afterinstallation.Efficient, Large Scale Distribution - Moonlight3 establishesspecific servers as "satellites" or proxies that will send software to, orcapture information from, remote hosts or groups of hosts. This allows forautomatic load balancing and faster performance when managing large remoteserver farms. Moonlight3 also minimizes drag on the network as it copiesconfiguration information to satellites only once and distributes deltasover time.Multi-Version Rollback - Moonlight3's modeling capability allows foreasy rollback to previous working versions of an entire software applicationor system stack. Built on a robust database infrastructure, Moonlight tracksall previous system states, not just the most recent. This rollbackfunctionality saves time and expense when administrators need to maintaindifferent versions of the same application in different test or productionenvironments.Granular Auditing - Moonlight3 captures information on unique filesper server, as well as the detailed text differences within those files.This allows IT to determine precisely where the server error occurred, toeliminate time spent troubleshooting, and to speed server redeployment.Detailed Session Tracking - Moonlight3 provides a keystroke log ofchanges to specific configuration files, specifically identifying whichindividual user initiated changes to shared environments and when. Sessiontracking enables service providers to better manage shared service levelagreements and to have a process for controlling "configuration drift"caused by unauthorized changes.
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