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"Distributed systems", in the current context, come in many different forms - applications such as ATM's, Kiosks, Vending machines, POS systems, are some examples. Our homes have some, and could potentially have many more in the future - home monitoring devices are already doing that, also we cannot imagine not being able to monitor and operate our answering machine remotely. In the future, automated homes could include heating and cooling systems that are remotely controlled. In the industrial arena examples are boundless - everyone wants to monitor output of manufacturing systems and control them, or access process and other monitoring devices - for example acidity of beer in barrels to wind conditions from weather monitors. While some of these systems may function in isolation as stand-alone systems today, others are already part of sophisticated networks. Everyone sees greater benefits from networking them, and companies are already moving in that direction. In such a network, the remote units may be called distributed systems. Such systems have similar characteristics - monitoring needs, remote control requirements, they often have or generate data that needs to be collected and processed regularly. RemManager provides a frame-work for a system that can manage these distributed systems. Together with systems designed around PPClient, RemManager provides ready, out-of-the-box features that are commonly required by such networked systems. Monitoring of common events and conditions and Control of all common features would readily work. Alert and notification requirements are just a few clicks from being all set. For messaging, just provide the XML schemas that define the messages. However, RemManager also provides centralized management of less sophisticated systems. If you want to monitor weather conditions in an orange orchard, the input devices are standard off-the-shelf instruments that do not know how to communicate information to you. Provided these instruments can be queried remotely for their data, an interface module may be developed that plugs into RemManager. RemManager can then provide all the extended capabilities. Alerts can be set in RemManager to trigger events when, for example, there are frost conditions in the orchard. RemManager can be set up to notify several people through email or phone when the event is triggered. Even when things are moving smoothly, RemManager would constantly be collecting information and updating reports that could be viewed anytime on the web, from anywhere on the planet. Of course, through RemManager and maybe a WAP enabled phone, you could request information about wind conditions at the orchard at any particular instant, or maybe turn on the sprinkler system for a period of time! Standard requirements for management of distributed systems comes built into the RemManager Server. These include watchdog capabilities and monitoring of status, conditions and events. Ability to set alerts to watch for specific conditions and events. Notification in case of alert and other conditions. Ability to customize notification mediums and various parameters. Receive and interpret messages from the distributed systems, which would translate to events or information. Generate messages in the correct format and send them to the distributed systems, which would either be commands to the systems or requests for information. Its architecture also allows integration of modules that can communicate with the remote systems in any non-standard format. Also the scripting features allow all of these features to be greatly customized. The features and abilities of RemManager allow for very sophisticated monitoring and control systems to be setup with relatively little development. It allows all the remote and isolated resources, in some cases, the most important portions of a business, to integrate completely into the enterprise. Key Benefits
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