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Monocrat 4.1 User Manual
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Introduction
This is the user manual of Monocrat 4.1.
Monocrat is a IT system management solution targeting tiny (~10), small (~50) and
medium (~200) networks of machines running Windows (Server, XP, Vista, 7, 8) and
Linux (Debian, Ubuntu). These networks are encountered in thousands around the
world: in small companies no matter their business, in computer labs, in hotels, in
hospitals, everywhere. Monocrat can also scale easily in order to handle the administrator
of even larger networks (> 1000) that require basic management operations.
Monocrat philosophy is to be simple and lightweight making the administration of
networks of machines a "piece of cake" for everyone, while providing all the necessary IT
system management features.
Monocrat consists of three components: Monocrat Manager provides a graphical (web
and application) user interface for the discovery and management of remote machines,
defining and assigning "jobs". Monocrat Server is responsible for passing the Manager's
commands ("jobs") to the Monocrat Agents and for receiving and processing the Agents'
responses. There is also the Monocrat Server Services configuration UI. Monocrat Agents
run in the administered machines and execute the "jobs" received by the Server.
The Windows and Linux components are interoperable, meaning you can have a setup
with mixed components. For example install Manager/Server in Linux and manage both
Windows and Linux machines.
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