Oct 17
There are just as many explanations to cloud services these days as there are cloud service providers. Regardless of the definition and the type of service (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS), the end result for IT is the same: infrastructure is extended off-premise. IT departments have another functionality requirement for their monitoring system as enterprises expand and resources become more dynamic.
As the uptake of cloud services increases, so does the pressure on IT to manage them. In a recent survey carried out by Opsview, 67% of organisations were concerned about the threat of cloud-sprawl. Fortunately, Opsview is ready to tackle any challenges presented by cloud monitoring. Continue reading »
Tagged with: cloud monitoring • cloud service • IaaS • Paas • SaaS
Oct 10
It is often the case that hosts on your network will be similar, but differ in subtle ways depending on their exact purpose. For example some servers may have two internal disks whilst some may have just one, and some servers may have multiple ethernet cards where others do not. Opsview provides attributes to deal with situations like this, as they are a way of associating metadata with a host – here is an example of how to configure Opsview to use them. Continue reading »
Tagged with: attributes • ethernet • Linux • Opsview • server monitoring • servers
Sep 06
By tcallway Forked software, Frameworks, MSPs, Nagios, Opsview, SNMP, System Management, api, business systems, icinga, multi-tenancy, security
Freeware IT monitoring tools are used by thousands of organisation worldwide however using them to monitor complex network, server and application installations can be quite a challenge. This blog post takes the basic capabilities of one such tool, Nagios® Core, and shows how you can scale it with Opsview for use in enterprise environments.
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Tagged with: Nagios • network monitoring • open source monitoring
Aug 30
Many freeware IT monitoring tools are great but using them to manage complex systems can be a real challenge. It can also be unforgiving on anyone less than expert in configuring the system with mistakes being punished by a complete stop in monitoring activity.
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Tagged with: Nagios • network monitoring • open source monitoring
Apr 14
By tonvoon Catalyst, Development, Frameworks, MSPs, Nagios, Opsview, System Management, Unix / Linux, business systems, multi-tenancy, security
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
In hindsight, Opsview would have always had access controls for objects at the role level – since roles also define which parts of the Opsview application you can get to, it would make sense to also put all the host and service objects into this definition.
(In our defence, we wanted to make it as obvious as possible for a contact when you were changing access information.)
The downside of our design decision many years ago is that Opsview administrators who have lots of their users – or contacts in Opsview terms – with the same sort of access and were having to change each user individually. This was painful and error prone if you had 40 “similar” users. Continue reading »
Tagged with: MSPs • multi-tenancy • Opsview
Apr 19
In the light of the recent events at a BT network centre in Paddington (London, UK), where a series of compound failures caused a massive outage with huge knock-on effects, I’m sure many businesses are taking another look at their own (and their suppliers) availability with a view to beefing up business continuity.
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Tagged with: cloud • continuity • EC2 • Puppet • SaaS
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