Systems management refers to enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems including (and commonly in practice) computer systems^{[citation needed]}. Systems management is strongly influenced by network management initiatives in telecommunications. System management may involve one or more of the following tasks:

• Hardware inventories.
• Server availability monitoring and metrics.
• Software inventory and installation.
• Anti-virus and anti-malware management.
• User's activities monitoring.
• Capacity monitoring.
• Security management.
• Storage management.
• Network capacity and utilization monitoring.