A US-based enterprise customer recently came to Opsview with a new challenge – install Opsview Enterprise on their zLinux mainframe1. As a major US Health Insurance provider with over 12,000 employees and more than 99 million members across all 50 states keeping data safe and available at all times is of paramount importance so they had chosen to standardize on the secure, robust zLinux infrastructure.
Feb 20
Jan 18
For most companies websites are their corporate face to the world. Any downtime can be costly especially if the sites are used for e-commerce. Web monitoring checks can be set up quickly and easily in Opsview giving you powerful alerting capabilities to check on crashed servers, website attacks and more. Here are 10 easy steps to set up website monitoring in Opsview: Continue reading »
Dec 12
Apache Solr is an open source enterprise search service from the Lucene project. Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server within a servlet container such as Tomcat.
Like any service or component in your architecture, you’ll want to monitor it to ensure that it’s available and gather performance data to help with tuning.
In this post, we’ll look at how we can monitor Solr, what performance metrics we might want to gather and how we can easily achieve this with Opsview.
Dec 05
Parenting is one of the many powerful network monitoring tools that can be deployed in Opsview. However parenting is quite often misunderstood or deployed incorrectly causing the intended goal (less notifications when detecting network failures) to be missed and flooding mailboxes with undesirable e-mail alerts. This blog post outlines the steps involved in setting up Basic Parenting in Opsview.
Nov 14
Uprooting the Opsview Master server is probably last on every administrator’s to-do list. But it’s not a perfect world and extenuating circumstances may require the master to be positioned elsewhere.
Here are 10 steps to move an Opsview master server and limit downtime during the relocation of your IT monitoring system.
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