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SGI Management Center Premium Edition Data Sheet
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SGI Management Center
Premium Edition

A comprehensive and complete system for installing,
managing, and monitoring your SGI computing systems.

SGI Management Center­ Premium Edition provides
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a single, consistent, and powerful management interface
for all SGI systems from individual servers, to clusters,
to SGI® UV™ systems. SGI Management Center provides
a comprehensive but customizable interface to monitor
essential system metrics and initiate management actions
from a single point of control. SGI Management Center
reduces the time and resources spent administering the
system by streamlining software maintenance procedures
and automating repetitive tasks. The comprehensive
features of SGI Management Center lower total cost
of system ownership, increase productivity, and provide
a better return on your SGI investment.

Key Features & Benefits:
High Speed Bare Metal Provisioning
Through multicast technology, an image can be copied
to every system server in the same amount of time it takes
to copy an image to a single server. All changes can be
made to the entire system quickly and all servers can
be identically configured with the same applications and
libraries in a known working state. Multicast provisioning
significantly decreases the amount of downtime during
system maintenance periods or software updates and
means systems can be working in a matter of minutes
instead of hours or days.
Version Controlled Image Management
Version-controlled image management is built into
SGI Management Center—Premium Edition. It tracks
the changes to the OS or kernel over time. These images
are easily deployed onto servers in the system. If problems
arise after an OS, application, or kernel upgrade, the system
can easily be returned to a known working state.
SGI Management Center also provides tools that view
the differences between revisions, and to import, copy,
or delete revisions. Updates to images and payloads are
stored as changes to the originals so they significantly
save on disk space but keep a full revision history.
Multi-user support allows changes to be tested locally
prior to checking changes into the global repository
or applying changes to the entire system.