IT Monitoring Whitepapers

We’re putting together a series of white papers, reports and guides examining best practices when monitoring hybrid physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructures - a must-read for IT Operations staff who want complete service assurance for their datacentre.

The Importance of IT Monitoring: Assuring key business services availability

Have you ever struggled to explain to your boss why free IT monitoring tools just don’t cut it in an enterprise environment?

Ever wondered how to demonstrate that the continued health of your IT infrastructure and business applications is critical to your company’s bottom line?

This paper explains how the right IT monitoring toolset can reduce costs, mitigate risks and support optimal business performance.

How to build and monitor an enterprise-grade staged deployment system for Drupal

After the launch of www.opsview.com in June 2010 we quickly realised that a single server installation with periodic backups wasn’t going to be enough. Visitor numbers ramped up quickly and we embarked on a complex web store project that would integrate with numerous back-end systems. We needed much more control; far less risk and the ability to quickly scale out our Drupal web application should visitor levels exceed anticipated levels.

Monitoring Application Servers with Opsview Enterprise

This technical whitepaper explains how Opsview Enterprise can be used to monitor Java application servers via JMX (Java Management Extensions).

Alfresco, the leading open source Enterprise Content Management solution, is used as an example.

Opsview Enterprise Architecture Whitepaper

This paper explains how Opsview Enterprise’s Business-powered architectural design distinguishes it from other enterprise monitoring products. We introduce the key design principles and demonstrate how these combine to deliver unparalleled scalability and flexibility, making Opsview Enterprise the essential product for managing the challenges of the 21st century datacentre.