LinuxPlanet: OpenNMS: A Study in Deployment

“Current trends in the IT world continue to accelerate the rate
of change in every area. Applications, server platforms and
networks are no longer the slow moving entities they once were.
They are subject to change on an almost daily basis. In this
environment, it becomes more and more important for the IT
Operations team to quickly detect, and respond to changes, or
anomalous events.

“My employer is a relatively new business. Applications would be
customized packages, and a large section of its core IT systems
would be outsourced. Slowly, those package based solutions morphed
into custom applications and, for a variety of reasons, these
outsourced systems were brought back in-house a couple of years
ago. This presented those of us in the IT department with some
interesting challenges. One of those challenges was how to go about
managing our newly re-acquired IT infrastructure and
applications…”

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