Cloud adoption without added complexity
Cloud infrastructure does not necessarily add complexity to an infrastructure. We have seen that managing and deploying a larger number of server instances was made possible by the enhanced automation provided out-of-the box by modern GNU/Linux operating system imaging and provisioning suites. Monitoring a diverse and sometimes disparate infrastructure of virtual servers with their assigned storage volumes can be done with traditional data center monitoring tools and processes.
Argsystems LLC can help implement automated Cloud Computing performance monitoring infrastructure that enforce SLA for availability, integrity and confidentiality.
We leverage on IT governance and risk monitoring to design advanced cloud monitoring solutions with open source applications. For instance Nagios and Ganglia are well accepted infrastructure monitoring solutions that operate superbly which in highly distributed computing environment.
Nagios
Nagios monitoring application is very highly regarded for Unix/Linux datacenter monitoring role. It provides out-of-the-box services monitoring for SMTP, POP3, HTTP,SNMP, SSH etc..It also allows resource monitoring for most operating systems and offers secure communication via SSL or SSH. Its popularity versus ease of use correlates to a very effective cloud monitoring application.
Ganglia
A very advanced monitoring tool that excels in cluster or grid-based computing environment. A daemon installed on all the network nodes that uses uni/multi -cast channel for communicating on the state of various servers. Makes use of XML and other standards to provide universal deployment.
Fact is Cloud Computing brings a newer model for delivering large number of infrastructure monitoring systems/sensors that can integrate and provide highest quality real time reporting with fine-grained configuration and advanced event correlation.
