Tony Marshall

Utility Grids - Pods or Nodes directly connected to a core switch 2

I have been reading my good friend Pete Jenkins response to my Utility Grids - Pods or Nodes directly connected to a core switch article and he has brought up a whole load of thoughts around systems management that reminds me of a pain that I used to go through trying to integrate different systems management tools.

Pete says to talk to the network vendor about tools to monitor and manage all of the switches in the grid which is all well and good and the vendor should have the best tool to configure their devices. However the monitoring is normally a different case because every company who is likely to have grids are also likely to have an Enterprise Systems Monitoring tool that will monitor all of the components within their infrastructure and monitoring the grid will probably not be treated any differently.

The main issues that I saw when looking at monitoring is each company can produce their own monitoring tools that provide more information than can be usually gathered by tools like NetCool, OpenView. and Tivoli but they can't pass the monitoring information and alerts easily through to these Enterprise monitoring tools.

Posted at 04:37PM Nov 15, 2006 by Anthony Marshall in Work  |  Comments[0]