johnnygage
MIS
Have you gotten rid of your server monitoring system? Do you wish that you could? I am not going to mention any particular monitoring system because all of them seem to suck big time in my experience. Here is a case in point.
Yesterday morning, I noticed some alerts came in via email. Of course, I generally ignore the email alerts because we get so many of them. Eventually, I asked the guy who admins the monitoring system about it. He said that we did have an issue with the monitoring system.
A little later, the pages started coming in. I spent probably 20 minutes just acknowledging them and deleting them from my phone. Of course, we didn't have any problems other than that stupid monitoring system. No users and application owners called us. As far as the end users were concerned, nothing was wrong.
This was just typical of the time that the systems waste for us. I've lost count of how many times a server was "down." Then I find that the server has been turned off on purpose or that someone just happens to be working on it at the time. Most of these alerts are just noise, and often one of these stupid alerts wastes a half hour or more of my time.
Of course, we gain little or nothing by having this alerting. Before we had this system, if something actually was down, we would hear about it from users anyway. And I certainly don't see how an alerting system buys us any time.
Have you gotten rid of your alerting system? I just see an expensive waste of time and money. We have even at least one person who administers the thing full time. I wish we would get rid of ours.
Yesterday morning, I noticed some alerts came in via email. Of course, I generally ignore the email alerts because we get so many of them. Eventually, I asked the guy who admins the monitoring system about it. He said that we did have an issue with the monitoring system.
A little later, the pages started coming in. I spent probably 20 minutes just acknowledging them and deleting them from my phone. Of course, we didn't have any problems other than that stupid monitoring system. No users and application owners called us. As far as the end users were concerned, nothing was wrong.
This was just typical of the time that the systems waste for us. I've lost count of how many times a server was "down." Then I find that the server has been turned off on purpose or that someone just happens to be working on it at the time. Most of these alerts are just noise, and often one of these stupid alerts wastes a half hour or more of my time.
Of course, we gain little or nothing by having this alerting. Before we had this system, if something actually was down, we would hear about it from users anyway. And I certainly don't see how an alerting system buys us any time.
Have you gotten rid of your alerting system? I just see an expensive waste of time and money. We have even at least one person who administers the thing full time. I wish we would get rid of ours.