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.
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Tagged with: agentless checks • apache solr • JMX • Lucene • Nagios • nrpe • 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.
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Tagged with: layer 3 • network monitoring • Traceroute • VLAN • VPN
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:
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Tagged with: Catalyst • IT availability • IT management tools • IT performance • nagios core • nagios plug-ins • open source monitoring • Perl DBI • SLAs
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
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
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
Dec 03
In our recent Opsview Customer Survey we asked for feedback on specific features we were considering for the product roadmap. This had a direct influence on our plans as I’m hoping to illustrate in this article. Opsview Customer Survey Results
The features below scored highest so I’ll describe how we’re planning to address them… Continue reading »
Tagged with: Development • framework • roadmap
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