Overview
The
importance of efficient monitoring cannot be over emphasized.
Various monitoring solutions have been in existence for some time
now but not until the arrival of MOM has a solution been developed
that covers the range of software that MOM does, that organizations
need! The days of guaranteeing 99.9 percent uptime on paper only
are over; customers (be it internal or external) demand a high
level of uptime for their systems. Like a production line,
companies are beginning to formulate figures for how much money
they lose if their systems go down; the importance of uptime
continues to grow.
MOM provides excellent monitoring capabilities,
which we explore in this chapter. With each management pack (MP)
that you download and install, you obtain the ability to
effectively monitor that MP's target software. We cover the
following topics in this chapter:
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Defining alerts, events, and tasks
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Working with alerts, events, performance
graphs, and tasks in the Operator Console(s)
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Using the Web Reporting Console
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Alert-based monitoring
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Event-based monitoring
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Performance monitoring
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Advanced monitoring topics