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.