Monitoring and Control Solutions

Businesses are often critically dependant upon the performance and reliability of their information systems. The failure or degradation of even one of these systems can have serious, even catastrophic effects on the organisation’s capability to conduct normal business.

One of our clients operates just such a set of business-critical systems. Apt Business Solutions has designed and delivered a unique set of automated services which monitor and record target system availability, capacity, configuration and performance in real-time. The supported monitoring services support a suite checks that measure point service and platform availability, system end-to-end connectivity, application performance and server capacity.

The reporting delivered by this system enables our client to review system performance and reliability over time. The monitoring service architecture is both flexible and extensible, allowing the straightforward addition of new platforms and test types. Individual tests are extremely lightweight, so the monitoring function does not noticeably impact the performance of either the systems or infrastructure being measured.

The automation of regular, accurate monitoring of key IT services provides the client with an early-warning capability to identify any emerging trends and to address them proactively, before they can have a negative impact on the business.