Error 404--Not Found

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

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Error 404--Not Found

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.
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The return of multipurpose management software

By Jeff Caruso

Get ready for a new twist in the ongoing power struggle between management software platforms and point products.The question has been: Do IT managers want an all-encompassing framework into which all of their management software can fit nicely, or do they want individual tools that solve specific problems?

Last year at this time, the momentum was solidly behind the point tools. IT managers slammed platforms and frameworks from the likes of Computer Associates and Tivoli, bemoaning their high price tags and implementation headaches. So the industry went back to basics. We saw hundreds of point tools from a host of start-ups and established players fulfilling useful - but also narrowly defined - roles, such as performance management, reporting and event correlation.

This year, expect the pendulum to swing the other way toward consolidation of these point products.

Part of the reason for the shift is the tremendous growth of e-business. Business transactions conducted electronically can be complex, to say the least. If there is a problem with such transactions, an IT manager has to know about it and pin down the problem's source.

But to do so, the manager has to see all the parts of the transaction - including what's happening on the servers, on the network and in the applications. Point tools often provide small windows into parts of the network and systems involved, but they don't give the whole picture.

Traditional frameworks have claimed to provide the whole picture for years, but they haven't really delivered. The idea now is to grab the point tools that do well at individual functions and tie them together.

Another reason for impending consolidation is the sheer number of management products out there. The revenue pie for management software can only be sliced so thin before you see management software start-ups looking for major partnerships or acquisitions to keep revenue growing.

The whole move toward consolidation is creating a market for products that stretch across other products. For instance, if you have more than one management platform or multiple tools, some companies will sell you software to pull together the data collected by those offerings and put it in one place.

The Common Information Model, a standard way of representing management data, should accelerate the consolidation. It is supposed to make it easier to tie different tools together because any tools that support the standard would have access to the same data in the same format.

There is a lot of potential out there for making IT management software more powerful than it has ever been. It will be interesting to see whether all this potential actually results in tools that IT managers have sorely needed for so long.

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Management software goes for the big picture
Enterprise users with more than one network management platform have never had a good way to tie them together - but that's beginning to change. Network World, 11/8/99.

CIM creeps ever closer
The Common Information Model is already paying dividends, but more vendors need to get on board. Network World, 6/21/99.

Net management with XML
Sharing management information could get easier when XML comes into play. Network World, 9/27/99.

WBEM/CIM and SNMP - what each has to offer
Network World Fusion Focus on Network/Systems Management, 9/22/99.

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