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Automated System and Service Monitoring With openQRM and Nagios

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Overview The first step to make sure all systems and services in a data centers are running well is to monitor them. A well-known, proven and widely used monitoring tool is Nagios which is available for openQRM in the flavor of an additional plugin. The second, also essential, step is the automatic handling of errors, what openQRM is famous for. The combination of the enhanced monitoring utility Nagios and the automated error-handling, high-availability and fail-over features of the openQRM data center management platform creates a powerful and dynamic environment which reduces down-time of systems and services in a modern data center to the minimum.

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Publisher	UKUUG	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Data Center

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