Development and Implementation of a User Interface for Surveilling Enterprise Servers

Abstract: This thesis aims to implement a new graphical user interface for Industri-Matematik Teknik enterprise console (IMTec) and outline future developments of the IMTec architecture. The project was carried out on account of Industri-Matematik Teknik (IMT). IMT is a subsidiary to Industri-Matematik International (IMI), located in Stockholm (Sweden), and is specialized in outsourcing, hosting and technical services/solutions. IMTec is an enterprise supervision software package developed in 2002. IMTec is used both in-house at IMT and offered to customers as well. IMTec has since then been maintained and several customer specific solutions have been added. The target groups for IMTec are customers that need an overview of their enterprise systems status running at IMT and system administrators that need to be proactively notified when systems and applications are running into difficulties. The IMTec enterprise monitoring tool is a large scale enterprise system. To limit the scope of this project the objective of the MSc thesis has been to create a fully functional prototype of IMTec Web Console (IMTec v2.04 alpha) and implement monitoring support for the windows platform. Extensive research has been done in the industry in order to make the product easy to use for the intended users. Other software solutions in the IMI suite have been explored to give IMTec the look-and-feel of an IMI software package.