Between client owned dependencies, company owned remote gear, and cloud systems it can be difficult to figure out how the different frontiers should be managed in a unified way.
Mostly challenging because the products that we love like NPM, or something else, might not be great living in the 100% cloud or hybrid environment. There is a need for infrastructure. In my case there are no local FS or PS. I simply have network, camera's, and minimal on premise other items. All data, and applications are now cloud where they can be and the IoT is heavily apparent in my new environment. Finding the right solution which can help both with Management and Monitoring RMM stuff, but with more NPM, NTA, NCM etc feel. I guess that is my $.10.
Hmm I think @jeremymayfield is onto something. I will argue a bit that the orion platform can exist in the cloud, but yeah - monitoring 'all aspects' or the cloud is not as simple as on prem. The pieces play together in new ways - IOT and cloud applications - it gets murky which tool(s) can monitor them easiest. Netflow can actually help with some IOT issues, for example. SAM seems to have many of the tools, but applying it is problematic. The issue is not so much with SAM, but the ever changing rules in the cloud environments themselves. I would love to see more cloud ready network monitors in NPM too. Has anyone noticed that the general nature of the cloud creates both sprawl (apps, data, network) and silos of information/responsibility?
I have noticed. I agree with you 100%. Sprawl and Silos.
Buy-in from Mgmt for budget to expand into cloud-monitoring tools, and for budget for training.
Our organization is organically driven by the services which are provided are completely isolate from the cloud for security purposes. Our management structure is completely isolated to protect the users and the boundary of the plant/platform for our layout. With that knowledge, a hybrid solution is currently out of the question.However, the thought is not so completely isolated that we may not have a multifactor authentication solution with would allow for an on prem solution with access via cloud based infrastructure (e.g. cotton candy) which is protected by multifactor keys for access based upon roles and responsibilities.
I love monitoring hybrid. It keeps me in a job!
We're 100% on-prem
Monitoring the cloud environment is a lot more complex than the on site environment.
Some of the things we're using in Azure don't appear to have an easy tie-in with Orion; though I'm not an Azure admin, so it could be that I'm just unfamiliar with it.
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