The Four Deadly Diseases of IT Operations
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The Four Deadly Diseases of IT Operations Does your infrastructure suffer from poor availability? Is it performing poorly? How do you ensure your systems remain disease-free? The leading IT doctors at GroundWork have recently identified four diseases that could destroy your organization’s IT performance and availability. Let’s check out the symptoms, diagnosis and cure for each of these. Schedule Your Checkup © 2013 GroundWork, Inc. All rights reserved. www.gwos.com
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Does your infrastructure suffer from poor availability? Is it performing poorly? How do you ensure your systems remain disease-free? The leading IT doctors at GroundWork have recently identified four diseases that could destroy your organization’s IT performance and availability. Let’s check out the symptoms, diagnosis and cure for each of these.
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The Four Deadly Diseases of IT OperationsDoes your infrastructure suffer from poor availability? Is it performing poorly? How do you ensure your systems remain disease-free?
The leading IT doctors at GroundWork have recently identified four diseases that coulddestroy your organization’s IT performance and availability.
Let’s check out the symptoms, diagnosis and cure for each of these.
Schedule Your Checkup
© 2013 GroundWork, Inc. All rights reserved. www.gwos.com
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DiagnosisYour IT environment has Checkitosis if:
• Figuring out problems takes too long• There’s strained monitoring performance because there are too many checks • Data visualization is not clear and concise
Vaccination• Whileconfiguringyourmonitoringenvironment,addnewcheckscarefully• Findoutwhysomeonewantstoaddametricbeforejustaddingit;theremaybeasimplerwaytomeet their goal
Treatment• Reducethenumberofcheckstowadethrough• Rank checks from top to bottom in order of importance to you• Eliminate checks that are not immediately actionable
DiagnosisYour infrastructure may have Slipped Disc(overy) if:
• The monitoring solution performs an unthrottled discovery of all devices• Thereismassivenetworkdegradationwhenyourmonitoringsystemisrunning• Largenetworkscreateevenmoreproblemsthansmallernetworksformonitoring
Vaccination• Treatautodiscoveryasafirststep,notthelaststep• Designyourmonitoringfromthetopdown–whatarethehighest-levelneeds?• Configuredependenciestosuppressderivedandspuriousalarms
Treatment
• The only cure for this disease is to build up your resistance for the next exposure• Youcankeepthediseaseinremissionbyregularlyreviewingyourchecksandremovingonesthatare not valuable
Checkitosis
Slipped Disc(overy)
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DiagnosisYouareinfectedwithCloudfluenzaif:
• Youcannotdiagnoseissueswherethereiscloudandvirtualizationdeployed• Monitoringdataaboutvirtualizedresourcessometimesfromdifferentsourcesdoesnotalwaysagree
Vaccination
• Supplementanytoolsthatcomewithyourcloudproviderwithgeneralpurposetools• Make small changes to your monitoring environment• Take baseline performance measurements before making changes
Treatment• Monitornon-cloudcontributorstoperformanceissueslikenetwork,storageandsharedresources•Usehardwarethatcanhandletheoverheadcreatedbyvirtualization• Monitor hypervisor CPU request queues per guest instance
Cloudfluenza
Monitoropia
DiagnosisYou’vebecomeshort-sightedduetoMonitoropiaif:• Process,peopleandpartnersareignoredtofocusontoolsandconfiguration
Vaccination• Startsimple:writearunbookforwhattodoforthemostcommonfailure• Include process to improve & expand • Create an escalation process for further improvement
Treatment
• Deployyoursystembasedonatop-downplan• Stoponlywhenalltheproblemsaresolved;enlistexpertiseasneeded
To learn more
Schedule Your Checkup
About GroundWork:
GroundWork, Inc. (@GroundWork) is the leading open platform for monitoring the availability and performance of enterprise applications, infrastructure, virtualization and cloud.
Visit http://www.gwos.comforunifiedmonitoringandoptimizationofIToperations.
