Data Centre Monitoring System Change for Company X
Wirén, Jan-Anders (2016)
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016060712255
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016060712255
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Company X needs an up-to-date monitoring system to replace the current aging data centre monitoring system. More automation and less manual work is needed, as well as more visibility to present to customers.
There are several contenders, both open source and commercial, which have been introduced in this thesis report, their features have been compared to each other, after which one of them is recommended for implementation.
Licenses and prices, as well as hardware costs for the monitoring system, are beyond the scope and have not been considered and focus will be on suitability for the required tasks. The scope includes data centre and application monitoring whereas network monitoring is out of scope and though mentioned has not been considered.
The monitoring systems were compared to each other by several features, for which sufficient information was available in the documentation.
The result is that they are almost equal with regard to features.
In conclusion, within the narrow scope of this comparison, Nagios and CA UIM were found to have some immature parts, while Zabbix and BMC TrueSight seem quite mature and ready for large scale deployment.
It can also be seen that there is no inherent advantage or disadvantage to a system being developed commercially or as open source.
There are several contenders, both open source and commercial, which have been introduced in this thesis report, their features have been compared to each other, after which one of them is recommended for implementation.
Licenses and prices, as well as hardware costs for the monitoring system, are beyond the scope and have not been considered and focus will be on suitability for the required tasks. The scope includes data centre and application monitoring whereas network monitoring is out of scope and though mentioned has not been considered.
The monitoring systems were compared to each other by several features, for which sufficient information was available in the documentation.
The result is that they are almost equal with regard to features.
In conclusion, within the narrow scope of this comparison, Nagios and CA UIM were found to have some immature parts, while Zabbix and BMC TrueSight seem quite mature and ready for large scale deployment.
It can also be seen that there is no inherent advantage or disadvantage to a system being developed commercially or as open source.