Network Monitoring Solutions We have already solved the Network Management Puzzle
The need for active monitoring of the entire IT system has never been greater. By mixing different technologies and merging new and old system generations we have created best practice solutions for network monitoring in a wide array of industries and companies of all sizes. All op5 products are built on open source and actively promote cross reference user activities.
Our straight forward, easy to use and fast installing IT management solutions can be found in many types of IT environments. From monitoring physical production machinery to logging credit card transactions, we can proudly say that we have implemented successful network management solutions in a wide array of industries and companies of all sizes.
We already know what it takes to solve the network management puzzle for you. So don’t hesitate to challenge us with your specific needs. Try and see if you can solve the puzzle!
Web services such as web shops and homepages consist of numerous parts that make out the user experience. If a problem occurs in one of the components the customer might not be able to continue the order process, use the webb application or read the information on your web page. As a result you as a service provider risk to lose goodwill, leads and even revenue. The worst part is that you might not even be aware of the problems! If your site is up, but with bad performance, slow load times, crashing scripts or a failing 3rd party service, will you be made aware of the problems?
With op5 Monitor you can continually monitor your processes and receive alerts when any of the services components is not performing as expected. op5 Monitor automatically simulate an action or path that a customer or end-user would take on your site or web based service (for example SaaS). The path are then continuously monitored at specified intervals for availability and response time measures. The data can be presented in professional and informative reports, invaluable for making well informed decisions, change management and resource planning and allocation.
Core business applications are moving out from the local legacy data centers into new more cost efficient and fast to deploy environments such as SaaS (Software as a Service) or the cloud. IT operations is still held accountable for the performance, availability and security, but the new flora of IT environments is making it increasingly hard for IT operations to stay in control of the whole network and all its dependencies in order to deliver performance and quality in accordance with the business needs. By using op5 Monitor for your Cloud Monitoring you dont have to make any difference where and how your services are running, wether they run in the cloud, on virtual servers, SaaS or in your legacy data center, you can monitor them from a single tactical overview over your entire IT environment.
IT operations at educational institutions often face unique challenges with tight budgets, complex networks and demanding end users. We can help educational institutions to get in control over the IT operations by delivering a complete set of monitoring capabilities covering the whole IT stack, services and applications in one easy to use and cost-effective solution. Do you and your insitution provide your students with tommorows solutions? providing them with innovative and knife edge solutions? Let them put their hands on our solutions!
op5 Monitor makes it easy to achieve SLA Monitoring. It's easy to install and is favorably used to measure and monitor the service deliveries from outsourcing partners. The solution benefits all parties in the outsourcing process and you as the customer can make sure you have access to all the facts so that you never again go in ”blind” to the monthly meeting with your outsourcing partner again. Assure that you get what you pay for and benchmark your service quality both internally and externally.
Benefits with SLA Monitoring
Control and measure your 3rd party services
Easy access to detailed SLA reports
Be able to prioritize your resources based on facts
- Why is the application X not performing according to our business needs?
A application can be 100% down, run with unacceptable response time or produce incorrect data. How do you monitor and identify problems directly related to your business critical applications? Using op5 Monitor and op5 Log Server you get control over your applications performance, can minimize application down time and shorten the time needed to fix problems, becoming proactive in your IT management.
No need to make a difference between virtual and physical infrastructure
Today’s IT departments have to struggle with demands on high availability to support the business and at the same time consolidate and decrease costs. To succeed you need to be able to effectively balance the demands of maximized return, mitigate risk, improve performance and increase agility. Virtualization, using softwares like VMware or XEN, is a fast growing trend with a lot of pro's helping an IT department to meet the demands from the business. Virtualization also increases the need of control since potential problems may have much more serious effects with several virtual servers on each physical and a more complex dependency structure. Whether you have 1, 10, 100 or 1000 servers, op5 Monitor helps you monitor your virtual infrastructure, giving you control and deliver savings, ease of use, scalability and the possibility to be agile and proactive in your IT operations. If you are looking for detailed information on monitoring vmware, please read our technical documentation on how to monitoring VMware ESX 3.x, ESXi, vSphere 4 and vCenter Server.
To outsource parts of or full functions of the IT environment is today a natural solution for many of our customers. It gives flexibility and hopefully cost control of mastering the ever changing needs for effective use of the IT systems. The challenge with outsourced services is often related to work of maintaining and managing the outsourced service, and thereby maximizing the quality and cost benefits. The work can be divided into:
Everyday service and support maintenance identifying the root cause of a problem and thereby establish who is the correct owner of the problem.
Proper and accurate Service Level measurements to assure that correct levels are met, and if not that penalty clauses are fulfilled.
A service is by nature today an integration between a multitude of network elements, programs and applications that together deliver a supporting function to your business needs.
Monitor Your Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP)
Rapidly changing business climates are creating new challenges for today’s ERP systems. In most cases modern Enterprise Resource Planning Systems requires a major upgrade to many currently operating systems. Previously data was processed on large single systems (AS/400 or similar) but new generation ERP systems use a more evenly distributed model. This gives the solution much more flexibility and supports more options in the various components over all.
Business specific solutions help build industrial strength
The industrial and service markets are growing at record pace. As business heats up, clients become more demanding. This means your IT systems need to be running at full speed as much as possible. Complex machinery such as modern robot technology needs looking after so you can avoid dreaded downtime.
Network monitoring within the public sector has some unique challanges that require unique solutions. IT systems need to be accessible to a greater number of people and need to be reliable with minimal or no system down time. They need to support a wide range of various technologies, and at the same time accountability and traceability is important for legal reasons. Public sector systems are often widely networked and shared geographically and/or between numerous municipalities or administrations. Without proper system monitoring this can be a nightmare.
