# What is Monad?

Monad is the next generation platform for administrative automation. Monad solves traditional management problems by leveraging the [.Net Platform](http://bit.ly/1PAsRao). From our prototype (though limited), we can project significant benefits to developers, testers, power users, and administrators. Monad leverages the [.NET Common Runtime](http://bit.ly/1Q0TrV3) to provide a powerful, consistent, intuitive, extensible and useful set of tools that drive down costs of administration and make the life of non-programmers a lot easier.

Monad consists of:

1. [Monad Automation Model (MAM)](https://devops-collective-inc.gitbook.io/the-monad-manifesto-annotated/what-is-monad): An automation model based upon [.Net classes](http://bit.ly/1R9oPTO), methods and attributes to produce \[Cmdlets]\(<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714395(v=vs.85).aspx).[^1-3>]
2. [Monad Shell (MSH)](https://devops-collective-inc.gitbook.io/the-monad-manifesto-annotated/what-is-monad): A .Net based script execution environment for exposing Cmdlets as [API](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms123401.aspx)s command line tools and interactive programmable command line shell.
3. [Monad Management Models (MMM)](https://devops-collective-inc.gitbook.io/the-monad-manifesto-annotated/what-is-monad): The set managed code base classes (or interfaces) to implement specific management scenarios and in-the-box administrative tools to execute those scenarios.
4. [Monad Remote Scripting (MRS)](https://devops-collective-inc.gitbook.io/the-monad-manifesto-annotated/what-is-monad): A set of [Web Service](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950421.aspx) based components that allow scripts to be remotely executed on many machines.
5. [Monad Management Console (MMC)](https://devops-collective-inc.gitbook.io/the-monad-manifesto-annotated/what-is-monad): A .Net based model and set of services for building management GUIs on top of [MSH](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2005.11.scripting.aspx) and exposing all GUI interactions as user-visible scripts.

This [white paper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper) presents the traditional approach to administrative automation, its strengths and shortcomings. Monad’s new approaches are then articulated. An overview of the major components of Monad is then presented. A set of [value propositions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_proposition) is then articulated for Monad’s target audiences.

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