Server Availability Monitoring Tools

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Table of Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................2
Server availability monitoring tools.........................................................................................................2
Server availability monitoring architecture.............................................................................................5
Identification and analysis of server availability monitoring architecture...............................................6
Solution to avoid data vulnerabilities in server availability monitoring tool............................................7
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
The report below gives an oversight of the importance of the server availability monitoring tools. It
compares a number of well know server availability monitoring tools with reference to their metrics.
The importance of such a tool is to identify and resolve server related problem before they have caused
negative impacts on a website.
Server availability monitoring tools
Nagios Core
In order for you to monitor the attributes or services that are present in a machine, you need to install
an agent on it. It will act as a proxy that conducts the monitoring between the Nagios core. A machine
that does not have the agent installed into it will not be able to be monitored by the Nagios Core [1].
The Nagios Core Technical features include:
 Network monitoring- TCP/IP, POP3, IMAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, Bandwidth
 Reporting- SLA availability report, Alert and notification history, RRD-based add-ons
 Reporting channels- email, SMS, Jabber, custom script, RSS
 Operating system monitoring- Linux, Windows, Unix
 Hardware- switches, firewall, printer, UPSes, workstations, routers
 Application monitoring-SAP, Exchange, JBOSS, Apache/IIS
 Customizable code- open source software, full access to source code, released under the GPL
license
The system requirement for this software includes:
 Server operating system should be either: Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, SLES,
Unix
 Server hardware- 1GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM (minimum) or 2GHz, 1 GB RAM (recommended)
 Server storage- a minimum of 512 MB free space and a maximum of 2 GB free space
 Browsers - Firefox 2.0+
Internet Explorer 5.5+
Safari 2.0+