Cimitra is part of the “Limited Access Administration” or the “Self Service Administration” movement.
Cimitra refers to the Limited Access Administration/Self Service Administration movement as “Micro-Administration“.
In the Microsoft world, Micro-Administration is called “Just Enough Administration or (JEA)“. And to be honest, as much as I adore Linux, you would be very hard pressed to accomplish what you have with Microsoft’s JEA on the Linux or MacOS platform. Here is a insightful video that explains and demonstrates “JEA”. I highly recommend you watch it to understand the needs of Microsoft enterprise customers.
Now contrast Cimitra vs. JEA
1. Cimitra users do not need any knowledge of scripting
2. Cimitra executes scripts and commands on any platform, not just Windows
3. With Cimitra an operator only needs to focus on the action to be done without any particular knowledge of….
– How the command or script is executed
– What platform the command or script needs to run on
– Where the script or command is physically located
Currently, as I write this BLOG, inside of my Cimitra account, I have push-button access to automation to commands and scripts on 7 hosts. They are: 1.) A SUSE Linux box in the cloud 2.) A Windows server that is a VMWare host 3.) A UBUNTU server which is a VMWare host. 4.) A Raspberry Pi Zero W 5.) A Raspberry Pi 3B+ 6.) My wife’s MAC 7.) My Windows 10 machine in my office.
