Foundations of Application Management

by Winston Bumpus and Rick Sturm

An insider's guide to more effective application monitoring and control Foundations of Application Management Monitoring applications on all of your corporation's systems is a daunting, never-ending... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471169161
• ISBN13: 9780471169161
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Needs to be updated, but still useful

This book is outdated with respect to product capabilities and some of the standards discussed. However, it remains a valuable resource for the following reasons:(1) It places application management into a coherent context, (2) major standards are covered (DTMF, POSIX, SNMP), (3) vendor initiated standards are addressed, such as IBM's Tivoli Application Management Specification and the Application Response Measurement API (sponsored by a consortium of vendors), (4) it adds a dimension of practicality to application management context by providing example commercial- and standards-based approaches.What I particularly like about this book is the fact that it is focused on application management and does not drift off into other areas. All of the major standards and vendor initiatives and approaches are covered, and the challenges of application management are objectively discussed. However, time is rendering this book obsolete and it is going to need a complete revision in the next year or so. As of the date of this review I recommend this book to anyone who is looking at the big picture of service delivery and service level management because application management is one essential element. However, I am not sure if I could make the same recommendation a year from now.