Jan 12
With the likes of cloud computing and virtualisation starting to become staples for today’s business, IT environments are continuing to grow in complexity. Furthermore, there is growing pressure on many organisations to reduce the environmental impact of their IT systems.
In response to these developments, organisations need to change the way they manage and therefore monitor their IT infrastructure. For example, with the advent of virtualisation, organisations now have a fundamentally different infrastructure platform from which they are running business systems. This in turn requires a different monitoring approach. Continue reading »
Tagged with: cloud monitoring • Green IT • Nagios • Opsview • Virtualization
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 »
Tagged with: virtual IT • virtual machines • virtual servers • virtual systems • Virtualization
Oct 05
So you followed the steps in the previous post about enabling SNMP traps on ESX4. Now you probably want to pick those up by something useful. Opsview can be configured to handle the traps quite easily. Just follow the steps below and your server will be listening to those pesky traps. After that, you’ll need to write a couple of service check handlers in Opsview to make sense of the traps. More on that later. This post is just about picking them up. Continue reading »
Tagged with: debian • ESX monitoring • ESX4 • Opsview • SNMP traps • Ubuntu • Virtualization
Aug 05
This post summarises the work involved to successfully monitor your ESX environment using Opsview and the vSphere SDK for Perl. Continue reading »
Tagged with: ESX monitoring • open source monitoring • Opsview • Virtualization • vmware • vSphere SDK
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