Monday, July 20, 2020

IT infrastructure monitoring tools

Today virtualization and clouds provide the opportunity to get all the necessary capabilities for various infrastructures and all kinds of applications. All this is simple, but the IT environment becomes more complex. First, it is necessary to organize monitoring systems for the IT infrastructure for equipment, as well as for applications and services. There are certain tools for this purpose.

Monitoring tools need to be chosen correctly. First, it is assessed how the functionality meets the technical capabilities and business requirements. Next, they consider the possibilities for deployment and maintenance. And then they select resources that correspond to the level of competence and preparedness of the company's IT staff. To determine the choice of functionality, you need to know the needs of different users. For example, those in charge of making business decisions are interested in reports on the implementation of service level agreements.

There is also such an important point as the user interface. IT infrastructure monitoring systems are developing so quickly that many user interfaces do not keep up with such trends. Often, for universality of accessibility, you need to use the mobile version, in other cases, only the web interface is suitable network engineer roles and responsibilities.

Today there are eight popular instruments.

Nagios, which is open source, can monitor IT infrastructures, user workstations, IT services, various components of the active network.

Another tool is Zabbix. It also has open source code, and it acts very quickly when collecting data. Plus, it can scale to an enterprise level. With it, you can monitor servers, various applications, as well as collect detailed statistics that relate to performance.

Hyperic monitors IT infrastructure as well as administering virtual environments. Among the main advantages of this system is the automatic elimination of identified problems.

SolarWinds is a type of locally hosted solution. Depending on the complexity of these configurations, the installation may stretch from a few minutes to hours. At the same time, the system is easy to scale, so large organizations are happy to use it.

OpManager installs fairly quickly, but configurations must be built manually. Here, you can also automate routine maintenance operations and automatically troubleshoot problems.

Building a central monitoring system is often associated with a product such as HP Operations Manager. This is a central component that is a client-server solution. It has an excellent user interface that allows you to monitor your network, applications, and system.

Tivoli is easy to install, but configurations, customization, and other actions require highly qualified specialists. The system is intuitive, has convenient data storage, proactive monitoring and an automatic fault recovery system.

WhatsUp Gold is easy to install and configure. In addition, there are more than 200 custom reports.

Another important product is Naumen Service Desk, which is completely Russian and allows you to automate IT management processes. Such a product provides a huge number of tools to manage IT services.  

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