Pretoria, 14 Aug 2015
Alarms are critical in almost every industry. Alarms alert organisations to perceived threats, and each alarm must be addressed before the threat it identifies has a chance to materialise and can cause serious damage.
AlarmsOne is a SaaS-based solution that lets you view, manage, and monitor all alarms from every critical monitoring tool running on the network, all displayed in a single console, as a cloud service, as well as letting administrators track all alarms from their applications - regardless of the administrator's location or the time of day.
AlarmsOne consolidates all alarms and intelligently groups the alarms based on host, network device, application, database, and more. It gives deeper visibility into each alarm, so administrators can minimise downtime and maximise performance, it seamlessly integrates with tools used for infrastructure monitoring, cloud monitoring, log analysis, and IT help desk. It pulls alarms in real time from those tools and notifies users in real time via SMS, call, e-mail, or a combination of the three.
When it comes to the IT industry, infrastructure monitoring plays a major role to ensure 100% uptime and to ensure that an outage or service failure doesn't disturb productivity. To track abnormalities, outages, and the overall health of the network and applications, IT administrators around the globe use network monitoring and application monitoring tools. These monitoring tools poll the network devices and applications at regular intervals to check the health of network devices and applications hosted in the network. They also collect various statistics like bandwidth, resource, and application usage.
The monitoring tools generate alarms if there is service down, usage threshold violation, outage, or some other irregularity. These tools work on pre-defined thresholds, or administrators can define their own thresholds based on their environments. A monitoring tool's alarm engine carefully watches the health of the network and usage, and it generates alerts if the threshold is violated or if the network or an application behaves abnormally. The monitoring tool also sends the generated alarms to administrators via e-mail or SMS, provided an administrator configures the mail server settings or SMS modem on the application server. Otherwise, administrators have to log on to the application to find details of generated alarms.
"Clearly, life would be easier for administrators if they had one tool to view, manage, and monitor every alarm from every critical monitoring tool running on the network - all presented in a single console. Well, we'd like to introduce you to your easier life", said Sybrand Strauss, technical manager of ITR Technology.
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