The Tech Side of Server Monitoring & Capacity Planning

I love where I work! I don't think that there are many software vendors that provide their employees with the freedom and flexibility to execute on whatever is needed to get the job done in the way that uptime software lets me. Because of this freedom, uptime as a company is very agile when it comes to providing rapid solutions to customers needs in order for their use of up.time to be successful.

In this case I'm thinking specifically about the fact that we have now added monitoring AS400 to our capabilities. While these monitors have not been publically released yet, I know that they will be. The new monitors provide monitoring, alerting and reporting capabilities for CPU, Memory, Disk, Job & Message Queues as well as Users, ASP and PTFs. As these monitors get closer to release I'll update my blog about them. If you would like to beta these, please contact support and they will redirect you to me. (support@uptimesoftware.com)

For anyone who is interested I will be presenting up.time at the VMware user group in Toronto on April 8th. During the presentation I will be covering the following topics

• Monitoring ESX servers and their guest VM workloads
• Guest VM Application and service monitoring
• Reporting on Vmotion/DRS enabled server farms
• Identifying virtualization candidates within your infrastructure

For anyone who is interested in attending the Toronto event, you can register at the following URL

http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/invites/Toronto_4-8-08Invite.html