monitoring, staff of live not only for system administrators....having a well administered IT, monitoring and reporting is inalienable. Whether your company is a large sized outsourcer or you have a small sized business, monitoring should be a must for your IT systems. You can say, most popular tools for this kind of jobs are Nagios, NetSaint or BigSister- Well take a look for its special designs and descide, what fits your requirements at best. OpenSMART, the Open Source|System Monitoring and Reporting Tool focused on: - system monitoring (base operation system, in example)
- application monitoring
- monitor middleware (think about web servers, application servers, etc.)
- database monitoring
- interface, job monitoring
- conditional check handling
- automatic error correction of software
- easy-to-integrate own checks for monitoring
Certainly, you can monitor your network or infrastructure as well, but the above listed facts are OpenSMART's key features. Reporting, not less important then monitoring is the second stack of OpenSMART. You know the problem: monitoring and reporting are married ;-) The system comes along with a high number of pre-defined reports like disk, tablespace, swap utilization etc. All of these data are collected with either a local "OpenSMART Agent" or a local "OpenSMART Reporter". Of course, own reports and data collections can be implemented. The software offers also the ability to define service level agreement monitoring/reporting for checkpoints. Checkpoints can be use cases of an application, running processes etc. Each service can be configured to use special working hours, outages, holidays and percentage of availibility. notification, what's going on.. When you are monitoring your IT systems, your business processes or your batch jobs, you will staying informed about their state. With highly configureable notify rules you are in position to send emails, notify by rss, send a pager etc. if an error strikes. With the functions like pre-defined notify-scripts for rss, email notification and the automatic error correction, OpenSMART can be compared with a "automatic operating". centralized managment
Due to a function called "deployment server" you are able to deploy new agent versions with a few clicks on your whole monitoring infrastructure. Further more all configuration files for the agents can be managed centrally by the "config server". If this module is in use, the big advantages of xml include configurations can take part to rapidly configure and standardize your monitoring agents. the technical factsOpenSMART have with the version 1.2:
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