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Wikipedia: Information Technology (IT) Is The Application of
Wikipedia: Information Technology (IT) Is The Application of
As Wikipedia Mentions
In Easy Terms
Evolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-e2CAxlgPs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP3G8axSMJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcJcq7DGfX8
Lets take below as a small example of infrastructure and complexity involved to keep it up
and running
Above Diagram have few Key things:
WebPage accessed by user using end user machine user enters data Web server
receives the data passes it to database server using network devices gives an
acknowledgement or desired result to end user
Key Things a IT team monitors, there can be many sub or more monitoring of processes or
setup, depending on how big the infrastructure is
1. Hardware layer
2. Network Flow
3. Application Layer
4. Operating System
5. Data base system
6. Application Tools
Hardware Layer
The servers, network devices, Storage, Backup, security and Voice setups
Every hardware has its own set of OS, releases and criticality associated
Logs of failure, errors and other system logs
Constant monitoring through tools and apps generates logs in huge size
Network Flow
Operating system
Database System
Application tools
Lot of tools are purchased by the team for connectivity of multiple IT setup
Applications tools which flow data in between different flavors of server are key for
the infrastructure
This tools play key role like other components and they generate log errors
When you have a small/medium/Big infrastructure you need more manpower or specialized
manpower to maintain the infrastructure, being reactive is going to cost high amount of
revenue or business loss and is not a recommended IT setup
To avoid downtime or to avoid de graded service and to run the show with available
infrastructure you need to have a real time monitoring. You cannot keep on investing in
Active-Active types solution for every service you provide, Critical setup definitely needs
planning of high availability but you need to keep a tab on investment in capital for
infrastructure and running operational cost.
To avoid this IT team needs a good robust monitoring tools, which should raise flags and
alert the team proactively and most important should also be able to integrate with ITIL
process like Incident management to Capacity management
https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/IT-Infrastructure-Monitoring-Tools
https://haydenjames.io/20-top-server-monitoring-application-performance-
monitoring-apm-solutions/
http://www.siliconindia.com/news/enterpriseit/Top-10-Best-Network-Monitoring-
Tools-nid-131075-cid-7.html
https://blog.pandorafms.org/network-monitoring-tools/
https://www.pcwdld.com/best-infrastructure-monitoring-tools-and-software
We will cover some monitoring tools for the respective domain like Infrastructure, Network,
Application or Database and understand how they help business running smooth on IT
setup.
(Have taken few monitoring applications on random basis, just to give some insight on what
to expect, not promoting any individual application, you can search few more basis your
own requirements)
Nagios
1 Comprehensive Monitoring
2 Problem Remediation
3 Reporting
4 Extendable Architecture
5 Vibrant Community
6 Visibility & Awareness
7 Proactive Planning
8 Multi-Tenant Capabilities
9 Stable, Reliable, and Respected Platform
10 Customizable code
6. Once the problem is fixed, Nagios will detect this and return it to an Okay state.
Nagios XI monitoring image
Some details about above image
Video on Nagios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXpcpLrGfA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBtsw5JtQ8A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX0UOM26yb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMGIj28tER0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWNUJtzi3V8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF4CmF2fEuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgWi7pFmEwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjlDHvNkpes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sERxhMZ4G4
Solar Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XvODWliBPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_R6H4Ud2w0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyyQd2S5PxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyyQd2S5PxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XvODWliBPw&list=PL8pOWG6OnnGYyn0XxczFLy14ulC9X7Egl
There are lot of further level of monitoring which above tools can do and there are many
other good softwares which can be hosted locally or over the cloud.
The basic requirement of monitoring is to identify real time or proactively threat which can
disrupt a business.
Monitoring of data help in many ways in terms of analysis of possible causes and most
important do capacity management, so for an e.g. a online website selling or running a
promotion can identify the number of visits the webpage had, and response time for every
access, and basis of the analytics data they will be able to define the minimum hardware or
the recommended hardware configurations.
Another aspect of monitoring is Security level monitoring of the infrastructure, where the
infrastructure or application level filtering is done to track every transactions/specific
transactions or behavior to be sure that the there is no threat to Data, integrity or Business
core.
Disclaimer
This document is not intended for any commercial usage or promoting any product, this
blog is more for IT beginners