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A technology transparent monitoring solution provides IT administrators and management with a unified view with system-wide visibility and a detailed understanding of how their technology is performing. Without this unified knowledge, organizations risk sudden downtime that could effect ongoing operations and cause financial loss. This whitepaper talks about how a technology transparency network monitoring makes it possible to create a unified view and see through all layers of the IT environment whether it is physical, virtual or in the cloud by using op5 Monitor.
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Technology Transparent Network
Monitoring Brings Control
White Paper
Authors:
Andreas Månsson
Klas Bernehjält
2012 op5
Table of Contents
Executive Summary............................................................1
Unified Monitoring............................................................1
Technology Transparent..................................................2
Open Soource Core Ensures Flexibility.........................2
Bridging The Gap................................................................2
Transparent Monitoring Brings Control......................3
Shorten Mean Time To Repair............................................3
Key Benefits..........................................................................3
Conclusion............................................................................3
Summary
Executive whether it is the underlying IT infrastructure, the network or new virtual or cloud based services
As enterprise IT change,
it makes IT more efficient but harder to monitor and manage. Having one focal point where health and performance data
for all parts is collected is vital when delivering high quality services. A technology transparent monitoring solution provides
IT administrators and management with a unified view with system-wide visibility and a detailed understanding of how their
technology is performing. Without this unified knowledge, organizations risk sudden downtime that could effect ongoing
operations and cause financial loss.
This whitepaper talks about how a technology transparency network monitoring makes it possible to create a unified view
and see through all layers of the IT environment whether it is physical, virtual or in the cloud by using op5 Monitor.
Monitoring
Unifieddisplay a unified view of the entire network, applications, cloud based services and their current status,
Is the possibility to
performance and health. This includes the ability to monitor devices and services independent of underlying platforms and
technologies in order to receive alarms and notifications, as well quick and easy trouble shooting, thanks to detailed event
correlation. Network managers needs tools that gives them a real-time global visibility as well as access to historical infor-
mation order to optimize the network infrastructure for applications performance.
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Transparent
Technology technology transparent monitoring solution that is open, heterogeneous and scalable. A fully
What IT operations needs is a
technology transparent unified monitoring solution makes it possible to create an understanding of how different parts of
the IT environment integrate with each other and how they affect specific applications.
Meaning the ability to integrate with 3rd party ISV. Also being able to handle legacy infrastructure and to scale and support
small to large deployments without sacrificing stability or performance.
op5 Monitor is a technology transparent monitoring solution that provides enterprises with a single tactical overview of
the entire IT environment and its current health and performance. op5 Monitor is able to see through all layers, including
applications, services and traffic across all platforms. It also includes the ability to schedule automated reports that enables
proactive planning of investments and IT recourse requirements over time, which is necessary to stay in control and make
informed decision.
open source core ensures flexibility
A Open Source network monitoring solutions have many advantages for enterprise users and was built for dynamic IT
infrastructure and is proven to be more cost efficient than traditional solutions. op5 Monitor gives you the benefit of open
source with the comfort of a professional vendor. The Open Source core of op5 Monitor and compatibility with Nagios*
plugins means that there is an tremendous amount of available community plugins to use for basically all purposes. The
modularized architecture of op5 Monitor allows high flexibility and it is possible to use extensions to add functionality to
the standard feature set.
the Gap
Bridgingnetwork, applications and services, provide enterprises with valuable information far beyond the IT
The unified view of
department. op5 Monitor is designed with all potential users in mind. Therefore it consists of a user-friendly visual interface
that enables personal views and improved presentation of user specific data.This allows every user to personally customize
how the information is displayed and delivered, all according to their specific needs and priorities.The same information can
be tailored to suit the system administrator as well as the CTO, CFO or CEO. Easily understood reports can be scheduled
to be generated and shared across departments and functions trough out the organization, increasing understanding of the
current status of the environment and future plans for the IT department. The information can be invaluable for informed
decision making, analysis and long term planning of the companies IT resources.
IP-SLA
Network
Applications Business View
op5 Monitor
Network services
Software
OS
Virtualization Platform
Storage
Hardware
UPS/ Smart Racks
Fig: 1.1 Monitoring all layers of the IT environment
*Nagios is a trademark of Nagios Inc.
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Brings Control
Transparent Monitoringyou get an comprehensive overview of your entire network
By setting up a technology transparent monitoring solution
that enables you to easily benchmark and measure how your internal and external IT Services is performing. By monitor-
ing your Service Level Agreement (SLA) you will be fully informed when going into negotiations with your external service
providers. Knowing your network is a key element when prioritising future investments and planning for your IT resources
shorten mean time to repair
With a technology transparent monitoring solution enterprises can avoid a lot of unnecessary finger pointing between
IT-groups or external service providers. Where something went wrong, what happened, when did it happen and Who is in
charge of fixing it is all in the monitoring view, resulting in that the right technicians can be notified immediately. By map-
ping network infrastructure, applications and traffic flow in op5 Monitor, you get a comprehensive, yet easy to understand,
overview that enables simple root cause analysis.
op5 Monitor is able to see through all layers of the virtual and physical environments and is therefore capable of quickly
identifying if the source of the problem is in the virtual or physical environment. This provides strong clues about how to
solve them and shortens mean time to repair, as well as streamlines the work-process.
Key Benefits transparent solution
• Vendor independent, technology
• Administrators can have one interface instead of many, increasing productivity and responsiveness
• Comprehensive, yet easy to understand, overview that enables simple root cause analysis
• No more isolated monitoring islands
• Reports that can present and visualize Enterprise wide data
conclusion about op5
If you have a large or business critical IT-network a unified view is key op5 is a market-leading company in Open Source Network Manage-
to successful IT-management. Having all of your network data eas- ment that develops software that provides control and monitoring
ily accessible and understandable in a single unified view keeps you of IT systems and networks. Solutions are based on open source
informed not only of your networks current health and performance code that op5 refines, sells as comprehensive systems and supports.
but also where actions might need to be taken in the future.
Our business concept is to offer the market the most cost-effective
monitoring solution for IT support organizations. We utilize the
power of Open Source as the prime component in our product
development.
For more information please visit www.op5.com or contact our local
Professional Partners.
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