An extendable web-based system of managing distributed servers using IPMI and WMI techniques

The rapid development of many internet services and applications has resulted in increased demand for servers. accordingly,a helpful tool to manage those servers is essential for educational institutions or enterprises. in this paper,a web-based server management (wsm) system is proposed to ease managing distributed servers scattered in different geographic areas. the wsm system is characterized by the three features: (1) monitoring the servers hardware health via intelligent platform management interface (ipmi) commands; (2) managing the servers system resources via windows management instrumentation (wmi) commands; (3) providing the functionalities of server groupings and task scheduling. finally,the system performance and the investigation of wsm questionnaires have been conducted for verifying its effectiveness and validation. the software architecture used to develop the wsm is devised in a systematic and extendable way,which will also be elaborated herein. © 2012 pakistan journal of statistics.