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Enterprise Network Monitoring

Transitiv Technologies' network monitoring solution includes the same enterprise level features as expensive proprietary solutions, whilst providing flexibility and agility through the use of Open Source software components and open APIs. Our solution gives customers the power to monitor their rapidly evolving virtualised and container based IT infrastructure, without having to worry about arbitrary restrictions or limitations.

Transitiv Technologies have extensive experience in the design, implementation, customisation and support of enterprise grade network monitoring systems based completely on Open Source software. Our experience has shown that we can deliver a tailored solution to our customers with a total cost of ownership approaching one quarter of that incurred with an "off the shelf" proprietary solution such as HP Openview or Solarwinds Orion. Many commercial vendors license their software based on the number of devices to be monitored; our solutions have no such restrictions - you are free to monitor as many devices as required.

Transitiv have designed, implemented and supported monitoring solutions for large networks containing hardware from a wide variety of vendors including Cisco, Juniper, HP, Dell and F5. We also have extensive experience in monitoring a wide variety of open source and proprietary operating systems and applications, from Windows to Linux, IBM MQ to Oracle, LAMP web application stacks to Java JMX and all sorts of other applications. We are also able to develop custom monitoring plugins to meet your needs.

Our experience has shown that there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" monitoring solution. Thanks to the flexibility and agility inherent in the use of Open Source software, a solution can be tailored to precisely meet the needs of you and your business. We also understand that requirements evolve over time, so our support contracts have been designed with this in mind.

Key Benefits

  • No licensing costs.
  • Highly scalable.
  • Extremely customisable.
  • Flexible support options.
  • Significantly lower TCO compared to proprietary alternatives.
  • Advanced web based GUI including configuration management functionality.
  • Fully featured APIs for automating monitoring and device on-boarding etc.

Key Features

Extensive monitoring of Windows systems, including:

  • CPU, memory and disk usage.
  • Eventlog messages.
  • Status of services and processes.
  • Performance counters.
  • Status of scheduled tasks.
  • Status of arbitrary WMI queries.
  • Available Windows updates.

Extensive monitoring of Linux and Unix systems, including:

  • CPU, memory and disk usage.
  • System log files.
  • Status of services and processes.
  • Network interface status and bandwidth usage.
  • Hardware health such as hard disks and RAID controllers.
  • Available software updates.

Comprehensive monitoring of network connected hardware from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, F5, APC and Dell, including:

  • CPU, memory and disk usage.
  • Network interface status.
  • BGP and EIGRP peer status.
  • PSU, fan and environment sensor status.
  • UPS health, energy usage, battery lifetime etc.
  • Load balancer pool status.

Monitoring of virtualization and cloud platforms, such as:

  • Virtual machine CPU, memory and disk usage.
  • Host system CPU and memory usage.
  • Datastore health and usage.
  • Number and age of virtual machine snapshots.
  • Hardware health of physical hosts.

Extensive monitoring of applications and services, including:

  • Database servers such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Oracle.
  • Network services such as HTTP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, SSH etc.
  • Functional testing of web applications.
  • Java applications via JMX.

Highly customisable graphing and trending:

  • Customisable graph templates.
  • Aggregate graphs.
  • Dynamic time periods.
  • Export of graphs to PDF.
  • Export of graph data to XML, CSV and JSON for external analysis or integration with third party tools.

Configurable notification support, including:

  • Delivery via email, SMS, Slack, PagerDuty etc.
  • Fully customisable alert templates.
  • Restriction of alerts to specific times.
  • Escalation of alerts.

Other widely used features include:

  • Support for integration with external authentication systems such as Active Directory and LDAP.
  • Support for distributed monitoring.
  • Support for load balancing and high availability.
  • Mobile interfaces for Android and Apple devices.
  • Dependency management and business process modelling.

We have extensive experience in developing custom host and service checks to meet our customers specific requirements. Don't just take our word for it - we have released a package of custom plugins under an open source licence for anyone to use, modify and improve. See our resources page for further information.

Please contact us if you would like further information on our Open Source enterprise monitoring solution.

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