Tustin, California-based Enterprise Systems Management Corp is offering Uname-It software on Sparc-based systems for enabling groups of systems administrators to manage an organisation’s shared name space collectively. Uname-It stores name space information in a central database, access to which is controlled from a systems administration server. The idea is to provide support for multiple existing name services such as Network Information ServerNIS, NIS+ or DNS, from a single naming model so that operations such as adding new software are not impeded by naming service incompatibilities. In client-server set-ups where information about names and addresses must be kept up-to-date, changes and additions are usually made manually. The company says Uname-It ensures that changes to name space are correct and consistent. The graphical front-end includes a configurable system enabling for example, a subset to be renumbered as a single task. A 400-node database server site licence and graphical and programming clients is $24,000, rising to $66,000 for 2,000 nodes. Other implementation are promised.
