Server Availability Monitoring: Metrics, Architecture, and Solutions

This report provides a comprehensive overview of server availability monitoring, a critical aspect of IT infrastructure management. It begins with an introduction highlighting the importance of uptime and the challenges organizations face in monitoring servers and services. The report then compares various network monitoring tools, including Nagios Core, Ganglia, Collectd, Spiceworks, Cacti, Zabbix, Icinga, OpenNMS, and WhatsUp Gold, evaluating their features and functionalities. A detailed discussion follows on server availability monitoring architecture, explaining the components and their roles in collecting and displaying necessary data. The report proposes solutions to mitigate data vulnerability in server availability monitoring tools, emphasizing the importance of enterprise monitoring servers, portal servers, authorization servers, server management integrated services, and OSLC client applications. Finally, the report discusses the impact of failure prediction on server availability monitoring, highlighting the consequences of system downtime, such as loss of opportunities, damage to reputation, and eroding confidence. The report concludes by summarizing the key points and emphasizing the significance of server and service monitoring availability for organizations.