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Definitely hope you feel differently as we go down this path. I think the plethora of tools is a common theme so I wanted to make sure this follows a different course. I did feel the need to start with the discussion though so that I can share why we did what we did. I'm not saying its the right way or the only way, but…

Have you guys discussed the concept of a virtual tools team? looking at rschroeder‌'s post talking about "their silos", a tools team can create a sense of community that can aide the deployment of tools across a wider base. A lot of my work is in healthcare and those teams tend to be very siloed. I've shared ideas of…

Ease of use of these tools is definitely a consideration. Nagios isn't the easiest thing to get up and running and does take quite a bit of care and feeding. Good Nagios deployments are pretty impressive though.

Thanks.

Thanks! By salesman he's out sharing the virtues of the platform and getting buy in from the other teams? Seems a reasonable way to go about it.

Thanks muwale. I did plan to wrap up the series here, but found it enjoyable. Hoping to spend some time on wireless and a few other topics for a bit. So glad people enjoyed this!

Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback as always. Point well taken.

Thanks for the feedback! A colleague of mine who came from the operations world used to be a huge advocate of a dedicated tools team. This team whether dedicated resources or a virtual team would be responsible for the deployment, configuration, and enabling of other teams within IT. There are so many uses cases in which…

Part two of this series is now up. Thank you all for participation thus far, please let me know what you think!

Isn't this the truth? This is where we have to be very discerning in which solution we choose. Some of the vendor agnostic options have a ton to offer and in other environments a single vendor solution may be the way to go. Mileage varies greatly depending on commitment to that tool's success.

Sometimes we are our own worst enemy or our own worst customer.

Time is something that varies per company for sure. This project has been off/on over the two years, portions of it handled by contractors and others by internal IT. I think any organization needs to consider the time required in keeping the lights on, but also should be practical as to where they invest in outside…

Final post in the series is now up! Would love feedback/discussion on it!

Thanks and agree, hopefully we'll all get smarter about it as time passes!

It is amazing and happens way too often.