Systems Management Stategy

Digital identities includes not only people but also devices, such as machine account and machine certificate, and applications (or software services). Therefore, there is a small overlapped area between systems management and IAM. Although systems management is another big area in IT, you should have a good understanding of systems management in order to figure out where the common area should be organized into.

Major Systems Management Goals:

- Asset and Inventory Management

- Configuration Management

- Remote Control

- Health Monitoring

- Software Provision and Distribution

- Software License Metering

Software Provision and Distribution is most like the area which an IAM system can also take care by using AD GPO or provisioning tool. The strategy is to treat systems management as an exteranl dependancy, just like how HR system is treated as an external dependancy.