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.
Dec 05
Nov 28
Not all open source IT monitoring systems are made equal. Just as IT infrastructures vary according to the size, location and type of business, so the systems that monitor and report on their performance must be flexible, easy to scale and configure to meet the demands of an ever changing business.
Opsview gives you the edge with open source monitoring by offering an easy to install and configure system that delivers enhanced functionality in a highly scalable, commercially supported system.
If you’re replacing your existing monitoring solution, or evaluating systems for implementation, here are 10 reasons why you should consider Opsview:
Nov 21
Opsview gives you lots of standard options for receiving status notifications, but with a bit of custom scripting you can also get status messages from Opsview and post them to a Twitter account. This could be useful if you want to keep all your status messages in one place with a timeline. Plus you can also set up an account for other members of your team to follow so they can also see the updates. However it’s probably best that the Twitter account is kept within your organisation unless you want the world to see the status of your servers!
This article tells you how to configure Opsview to send messages to Twitter. For configuring this you need to have access to the shell of your Opsview server.
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.
Nov 07
The adoption of virtual IT systems is growing rapidly, offering lower costs and improved availability. However virtualization’s inherent flexibility brings with it significant management challenges that can’t be solved using multiple monitoring tools.
Opsview provides a single, consolidated view of all your virtual systems and guests allowing for easier event correlation and rapid time to fix. Combined with native network, enterprise application and Cloud support Opsview offers unparalleled coverage of your entire infrastructure. Continue reading »
Oct 31
This week’s post is a technical workaround, from Opsview Community edition user Matthew White, for anyone experiencing an ODW_Status Warning in Opsview due to heavy server load.
Over to you Matthew…
Oct 27
Our latest release, Opsview Enterprise 3.14 edition, is out today!
As well as fixes and major enhancements, configuration changes are applied in half the time compared to previous releases for complex Opsview deployments. Continue reading »
Oct 24
Setting up distributed monitoring in mission critical production environments is a complex task; configuration can be challenging and mistakes costly. Opsview Enterprise edition and Opsview Syncmaster module make deploying an enterprise monitoring system easy and reduce the risks associated with migrating configuration objects from development to production environments. Here’s how: Continue reading »
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 »
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 »
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