MC SHOWCASE BUYER'S GUIDE

The recent trend of consolidating servers has led to the increasing prevalence of multi-system and multi-LPAR shops. Companies have found it mandatory that system administrators and users alike synchronize user profile definitions, user passwords and system values between the different systems, allowing for exceptions as needed in Production, Test or Development systems. Such synchronization should be accomplished with minimum overhead to both the actual systems and the personnel mandated with managing user profile information.