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All applications and network devices continuously send messages about things that is happening in your network. It is important to be able to monitor and filter out the important notifications from the vast volumes of unimportant messages in order to understand the health of the network and applications. Knowing about these events in real-time enables you to react to them in real-time. An proactive approach to IT monitoring can prevent costly disturbances in your network, services, and your business. Being able to identify events and act in time is one of the best and easiest ways of saving money in an IT organization.

Tracking event correlation and performing root cause analasys is made easy by op5 Monitor which gives you control of your network by mapping dependencies and sending automatic notifications and reports to those interested in the IT enviroment.

Mapped Dependencies

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Event Correlation

Having proper event correlation and filtering is critical to ensure service quality and the ability to quickly respond to exceptional situations. According to Gartner when a problem arises within a network 80% of the mean time to repair is wasted on trying to find where the issue is located. By using the detailed information in op5 Monitor to correlate events the time to resolution can be cut. op5 Monitor suppresses all host alarms that comes from hosts behind a faulty one, thus shortening MTTP and enabling a more streamlined and efficient work-flow. The information can also be used for performing root cause analysis.

Shorten your mean time to repair

When something goes wrong within your business network the people in charge of fixing the problems may get swamped by alert notifications and alarms from every affected host. By physically knowing the structure of the network, op5 Monitor only creates one notification detailing  which host is causing the outage and how many other host it is affecting. Instead of getting multiple, alarms the IT-department only gets one. This way the faulty host is easily detected, shortening the mean time to repair and enables a more streamlined work-flow when problems can start being fixed moments after they occur.

Event notifications in op5 Monitor

Using SNMP Traps op5 Monitor can passively listen to your network, or actively go out and ask devices how they are “feeling” in order to get the latest status updates. Any irregular status changes or critical notifications is filtered out and forwarded to the on-call IT administrators. Any alarms are clearly shown in op5 Monitors Tactical overview and can be set to automatically send be via e-mail and/or SMS to assigned colleagues across the organisation. Alarms can also be set to trigger actions or scripts to be forwarded to third party network management platforms such as HP OpenView or IBM Tivoli.

 With the logserver extension alarms can be triggered from system logs or saved filters of system logs. The log information can be included directly in the alarm message to give detailed information about what triggered it and what was written to the log moments before the failure, thus making root cause analysis a breeze.

Unified Monitoring is the possibility to display an birds-eye view of the entire network, applications, cloud based services and their current status and health. This includes the ability to monitor devices and services independent of underlying platforms and technologies in order to receive alarms and notifications, as well quick and easy trouble shooting thanks to detailed event correlation.

As your business critical IT change, whether it is the underlying infrastructure, the network or the provisioning of a new cloud based SaaS, having one focal point where health and performance data for all parts is collected is vital for the delivered quality of services, decision making and a successful long term IT strategy. Network managers needs tools that gives them a real-time global visibility as well as access to historical  information order to optimize the network infrastructure for applications performance and work with peer groups to plan for changes.

Technology Transparent

op5 Monitor is a technology transparent and vendor independent next generation IT monitoring solution. op5 Monitor provides you with a singe tactical overview of your entire IT environment and its current heath. Whether your IT environment is physical, virtual or in the cloud, op5 Monitor is able to see through all layers, including applications, services and traffic across all platforms such as Intel, AS400, AIX, HP_UX, vmware, KVM, XEN and operating systems such as Linux, Novell, Solaris and Windows.

A fully transparent unified monitoring system makes it possible to create an understanding of how different parts of the IT integrate with each other and how they affect specific applications. op5 Monitor includes the ability to schedule automated reports that enables proactive planning of investments and IT recourse requirements over time, which is necessary to stay in control and make informed decision.

Open Source Core Ensures Flexibility

Open Source network monitoring solutions have many advantages for enterprise users. op5 Monitor  gives you the benefit of open source with the comfort of a professional vendor. The Open Source core of op5 Monitor and compatibility with Nagios* plugins means that there is an tremendous amount of available community plugins to use for basically all purposes. The modularized architecture of op5 Monitor allows high flexibility and it is possible to use extensions to add functionality to the standard feature set.  Read more about op5 Monitors Open Source Core.

Bridging the Gap Between IT and Business

The Unified view of your network, applications and services, provide you with valuable information far beyond the IT department. op5 Monitor is designed with all potential users in mind. Therefore it consists of a user-friendly visual interface that enables personal views and improved presentation of user specific data. This allows every user to personally customize how the information is displayed and delivered, all according to their specific needs and priorities. The same information can be tailored to suit the system administrator as well as the CTO, CFO or CEO. Easily understood reports can be scheduled to be generated and shared across departments and functions trough out the organization, increasing understanding of the current status of the environment and future plans for the IT department. The information can be invaluable for informed decision making, analysis and long term planning of the companies IT resources.

Transparent monitoring brings control

By setting up a technology transparent monitoring system you get an comprehensive overview of your entire network that enables you to easily benchmark and measure how your internal and external IT Services is performing.  By monitoring your Service Level Agreement (SLA) you will be fully informed when going into negotiations with your external service providers. Knowing your network is a key element when prioritising future investments and planning for your IT resources.

Shorten mean time to repair

With a technology transparent unified monitoring system you can avoid a lot of unnecessary finger pointing between IT-groups or external service providers. Where something went wrong, what happened, when did it happen and Who is in charge of fixing it is all in the monitoring view, resulting in that the right technicians can be notified immediately. By mapping your network infrastructure, applications and traffic flow in op5 Monitor, you get a comprehensive, yet easy to understand, overview that enables simple root cause analysis.

op5 Monitor is able to see through all layers of the virtual and physical environments and is therefore capable of quickly identifying if the source of the problem is in the virtual or physical environment.  This provides strong clues about how to solve them and shortens mean time to repair, as well as streamlines the work-process.

Key Benefits

• Vendor independent, technology transparent solution
• Administrators can have one interface instead of many, increasing productivity and responsiveness
• Comprehensive, yet easy to understand, overview that enables simple root cause analysis
• No more isolated monitoring islands
• Reports that can present and visualize Enterprise wide data

op5 Monitor as a Unified Monitoring system

If you have a large or business critical IT-network a unified view is key to successful IT-management. Having all of your network data easily accessible and understandable in a single dashboard view keeps you informed not only of your networks current health, but also where actions might need to be taken in the future.

*Nagios is a trademark of Nagios Inc.

dass IT GmbH was founded in 2004 by former Senior Consultants of Suse Linux AG. dass IT is primarily a systems integrator, offering support and consulting around Linux and Open Source.

dass IT focuses on System Management solutions, automated installations, integration of Linux-based servers and services into existing complex IT infrastructures.

The customer benefits from our special service features such as single sourcing, billing, contract and inventory management, monitoring through a single point of contact. Through flexible and transparent business processes mitcaps always “delivers profit” to its customers. mitcaps delivers its service portfolio on an individual basis and scalable to the customer needs. Further services like consulting, Internet security, convergence solution, and overall IT services complete the portfolio.”

mitcaps GmbH
Mombacher Straße 40
D – 55122 Mainz
Tel. +49 (0)6131 9501910
Fax +49 (0)6131 9501930
E-Mail info@mitcaps.de
Internet www.mitcaps.com

A System that grows with your needs

IT systems used to be built to last – nowadays an efficient system it built to change. As your company grows, you need to add supporting IT resources. op5 Monitor introduces a flexible affordable system that can scale to the needs of your business and adapt to the ever-changing challenges of the IT environment, regardless if it consists of small business critical IT to large enterprise monitoring needs with tens of thousands of services.

op5 Monitor was specifically designed to be a flexible and scalable solutions able to handle very large volumes of monitored devices and checks as well as being optimized to achieve very low per-device overheads. op5 Monitor can scale to several thousands of op5 Monitor Peers with automatic failover from pollers.

By our standards a scalable Monitoring Solution refers to an easy to use system that is capable of constantly changing to fit the needs of your business without sacrificing stability or performance. Three key features are essential to attain a completely scalable and effective monitoring solution;

1. Distributed Monitoring

A single monitoring server setup would do the job excellently for a smaller business that favors simplicity. When you want to start monitoring an enterprise network with thousands of devices, distributing your monitoring becomes essential to handle the load.

A distributed setup is ideal when there is a need for a wide geographical coverage and when you need a resilient system design. By distributing the checks the traffic stays on high-speed local links and do not have to go over unstable and more expensive WAN links. Read more about or Distributed set-ups.

Remote and Central Administration

In a distributed set-up local management can be assigned responsibility to different sites or regions while retaining a central overview of the network health. In case of a network outage, remote sites using op5 Monitor can monitor their own regions and resolve problems locally even though WAN-links are down. op5 Monitor can be configured centrally and push out the configuration to remote servers, making configuration easy and time efficient.

Secure Distribution

By using VPNs with SSL-encrypted connections the remote server can work behind firewalls without needing special permission to access the equipment. op5 Monitor efficiently prevents loss of central historical data within the distributed system. If the connection between the central op5 Monitor and a remote server is lost, the remote server will automatically start storing data until a connection is re-established.

2. Load-balancing

When scaling a system it common to start by stuffing as much as possible into one existing server, at the cost of a slower system. A load balanced setup allows the monitoring servers to share the workload between them to ensure that no single one is under- or over utilized. Load balancing is very effective when it comes down to preventing failures that occur when a system’s activity levels are continuously very high.

Automatic Failover

If one remote server (poller) fails, op5 Monitor automatically transfers the workload to another, minimizing the interruption of critical system availability. Automatic failover can be used on both psychical and virtual servers/pollers.

3. Redundancy

If you have a large monitored system a redundant setup is recommended to ensure a last defence in case of a large scale network failure. If the failure also affects the monitoring system the redundant system kicks in using a mirrored version to ensure availability of the monitoring system, which can then send out alarms and be used while troubleshooting. Access to event correlation data makes it easier to quickly identify where the problem is located and what has caused it, shortening the mean time to repair (mttr).

Do YOU Need a Scalable Monitoring Solution?

Keeping one step ahead of your competitors as well as keeping up
with changes in business and IT trends can be a major challenge. A lot of questions may arise when the time comes to make the changes to your IT-environment;

• How important is your monitoring system for your business?
• Will your monitoring system still be accessible if you experience a large scale network failure?
• What would a network failure cost you per hour and how long would your business manage without access to business critical applications?
• Do you have a geographically distributed network?
• Does your current monitoring solution experience performance issues?

op5 Monitor is a Scalable Monitoring Solution

op5 Monitor is a flexible and highly scalable monitoring solution used in large enterprise environments, monitoring tens of thousands of devices. op5 Monitor was from the very start designed for being scalable and to be able to handle large volumes of monitored devices as well as being optimized to achieve very low per-device overheads. It is a monitoring system that not only scales properly but was designed from the bottom up to address the need for support for complex set-up scenarios, high availability demand and restrictive network polices in combination with large scale usage scenario.

STONE-IT, located in the city of Utrecht, is a leading open source integrator in the Netherlands, especially in local government and public health. With over 15 years of experience, Stone-IT has built considerable expertise and strong reputation in the Dutch market in open source infrastructure (cloud computing, virtualization, messaging, groupware, storage, remote access). Services are consultancy, project implementation, managed services and 24×7 support.

As of september 2011 Stone-IT is part of the international Smile Group with offices in France, Belgium, Spain, Marocco, Ukraine and over 600 open source professionals.

Contact Stone-IT
Phone: +31 30 22.87.995
Email: info@stone-it.com
Goeman Borgesiuslaan 77
3515 ET Utrecht, Netherlands