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Glad to provide data, but I need to know where to upload it to.
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Open source is a tricky beast. Each organization treats it differently. Depending on how accounting is done human time can be money. Additionally, commercial vendor support may or may not be a requirement. It can be good for guerrilla tactics on a proof of concept, but it can also backlash on you when it comes to human…
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It's also where you define your objectives. There are various domains to monitor: Environmental, Physical, Virtual, Asset, Storage, Network (wired & wireless), OS, Application (i.e. Exchange, SQL Server, etc.), Service (website availability/performance). Different teams may have a stake in their particular domain, but it's…
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Also, just because you tear down an IT silo by merging your visibility doesn't mean you have to tear down your responsibility chains. For example a DBA cares greatly about the performance of his/her hardware, but if a disk fails that's not their problem. That would fall under their operations team to take care of. If cross…
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We've struggled with this. One of the challenges with monitoring is establishing the justification for a budget of the appropriate tooling. Solarwinds provides a suite of products which have a very broad coverage for almost everything in our datacenter, however, without a scope to monitor (meaning 100% coverage by default)…
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True. All that being said though, you can make it work. Just understand the risk and keep a good snapshot before you try doing any upgrades. As with any linux system, multi-home and DNS don't mix because the linux resolver isn't per interface. So be sure to use static IP. In our case, we had a private, unrouted network for…
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Well, there are a few ideas that I've had. * vSphere for view component status. In the VMware view administrator summary page, they've got a simple red/green status page for each component that would be nice to know if there is a problem. * Problem Desktops. Also on the administrative summary page, there is a counter for…
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We did it a few releases ago for a while, however the admin page didn't recognize the second adapter. I would also use caution when doing full release upgrades. For us it didn't stay that way long because our VM infrastructure moved onto our routed network so there wasn't a reason to keep it multihomed.
