IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

The assignment content discusses IT infrastructure-monitoring tools, which are essential for ensuring the efficient functioning of large networks. The importance of monitoring IT infrastructure is highlighted, along with various types of monitoring tools available, such as Nagios Core, Ganglia, CollectD, Spiceworks, Cacti, Zabbix, Icinga, OpenNMS, and WhatsUp Gold. These tools provide features like error reporting, automatic performance checking, and alert notifications, making it easier to monitor large infrastructure systems.

IT Infrastructure-Monitoring Tools
Introduction

As we see that when any type of business rise and evolve, then they need to develop their already
existing network as well as need to upgrade their network. As network size increases then it makes
sure that it will run in an effective manner. To get this it is very important to know about the
component used in the making of IT infrastructure and always keep an eye on those component
/tools availability and their performance.
While it is very easy to monitor IT infrastructure manually like the
small infrastructure of the network, at the same time keep an eye on large infrastructure is a more
costly and time-consuming process. Due to this, there are so many IT infrastructure monitoring
tools developed to help with monitoring large infrastructure with facilities like error reporting,
automatic performance checking, and alert notifications. Since no single person has eyes
everywhere and it necessary to keep an eye on everything, so at the current time IT infrastructure
monitoring tools are a necessity for all people. Nowadays there are so many different types of
unique in their own wat IT infrastructure monitoring tools are available. As monitoring become
necessary, it also divided into many sections. Requirements also varied from system to system, so,
there are different monitoring tools for a different type of tools. Here is a list of top IT infrastructure
server monitoring tools : (1) Nagios Core, (2) Ganglia, (3) CollectD, (4) Spiceworks, (5) Cacti, (6)
Zabbix, (7) Icinga, (8) OpenNMS, and (9) WhatsUp Gold. The design of IT Infrastructure mainly
depends upon the present and future demands of the business to ensure the development of the
company by implementing the right technology. Virtualized infrastructure needs a very specific type
of monitoring.
IT infrastructure monitoring tools make business enterprise capable to find out and solve
their infrastructure problems before they harm on a big scale. They provide the present status of
infrastructure about their physical and virtual performance. Infrastructure management covers areas
like network management, system management, and storage management. By discussing the basic
requirements and problems of the infrastructure we can easily plan the infrastructure design of the
monitoring tools. Due to which they benefitted both technically and financially. As we see that
nowadays the upgradation of the monitoring tools become tough day by day because of its effect the
overall IT structure of any company. It covers from server admin to the end user and everything
which connect all the IT infrastructure for good and bad purpose at the same time. As we all know
that the upgradation of any infrastructure affect so many users than in the section of the IT.
Server availability monitoring tools in terms of : a) Disk usage b) CPU monitoring c) Process
Monitoring d) Bandwidth Monitoring e) Resource Measuring f) Overall availability
(1) Nagios Core
It is a free and open source IT infrastructure monitoring tool which monitors system and network as
well as IT infrastructure. It mainly provides alerting and monitoring services for servers and other
infrastructure services. It will alert user at the time of incident as well as after the problem solved. It
also helps in monitoring of host resources like loading of processor , disk usage, and remote
monitoring. It also provides web interface to view status of current network , problem history, and
error notification. It is one of the oldest IT infrastructure monitoring tool. It is also available in
Standard and Enterprise editions.
(2) Ganglia
It is highly distributed scalable monitoring tool for network and high performance IT infrastructure.
It is basically used to watch live or recorded data like CPU usage and network utilization. It is

completely based upon clusters federations . It use technology like XML for repersentation of data,
XDR for portable, compact transport of data and RRDtool for visualization and storage of data.
(3) CollectD
It is unix IT infrastructure monitoring tools which collects, transfers and store the data of system
and network performance. In this data storage is handled by plugins in the form of shared objects.
In this operating plug-ins collect information about usage of memory, CPU utilization , and other
which are login in the system on same network. Application plug-ins basically used to collect the
data of performance about application which is running on the same computer or different computer
in the system. Whereas general plugins offers most basic functions where user are responsible to do
do some specific functions.
(4) Spiceworks
Spiceworks mainly used as a inventory management and help desk system of the infrastructure. It
provides high quality of infrastructure management and servers monitoring application. It basically
track servers to for CPU and DISK utilization as well as help in tracking different infrastructure
components like routers and switches.
(5) Cacti
It is a web based open source graphing and network monitoring tool design as a front end
application for open source data login tool. Its basic use to monitor the traffic by switches and
routers using simple network management protocol. Cacti front end is capable of handling so many
users at a time and used by web hosting providers to show bandwidth performance to the user. It
can be extended to monitor any source scripts which are easily executable.
(6) Zabbix
It is open source monitoring tool for so many different IT infrastructure devices like networks,
virtual machines, servers and many cloud services. It also very helpful in monitoring network
utilization, consumption of disk space and performance of CPU load. It supports different types of
near real-time mechanism notification using XMPP.
(7) Icinga
It is open source networking monitoring tools which is mainly comes in two version Icinga 1 and
Icinga 2 . It has so many features like graphing, reporting, alerting, and monitoring of performance .
Icinga 1 mainly supports database , good web interface, and very easy to integerate with any
system. Whereas Icinga 2 is fully changed features and core web interface which is also very
smooth and unresponsive in nature. It mainly supports multiple monitoring at the same time.
(8) OpenNMS

It is an enterprise grade IT infrastructure monitoring tool which main goal is to provide scalable,
distributed management application to the end users. There are four main functional area of
OpenNMS like notifications and event management, discovery and provisioning, collection of data
and monitoring of various services.
(9) WhatsUp Gold
It is very user friendly tool which has so many features like configuration management, virtual
environment monitoring, reporting and alerting. It will not only helpful in device monitoring but
also monitor the specific processes and services. It is very much capable of monitoring cloud
infrastructure like AWS and AZURE which can automatically monitor the amazon web services and
servers.