GroundWork Open Source Solutions White Paper Sample

Introduction

As the use of n-tier computing architectures become ubiquitous, the availability and performance of software applications is ever more dependent upon complex network interactions between hardware, network, and software components and thus more difficult to measure, monitor, and manage. At the same time, the importance of monitoring applications successfully and cost effectively becomes greater and greater especially for e-commerce and IT Service Management.

In the first part of this paper, a set of practical techniques for application monitoring are identified and described. In the second part, a method for value engineering the overall design for application monitoring is presented.

ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF APPLICATION MONITORING

The list below describes some of the basic methods that are commonly used to monitor the performance and availability of applications.....