Environmental Hazards to Peak Performance: Why Network Monitoring is Important for System i Managers
Published by CCSS on Apr 30, 2008 A professional athlete has many considerations in ensuring their personal best. The food they eat, the way they physically train and mentally prepare, as well as their strategy and technique, all play a factor in optimizing their best result. Imagine all that had been attended to and when the athlete arrived for the race of their life, his performance was ruined as he was struck by lightning. Unlucky, some would say – or, it's unfortunate, but that's life. IT Managers are not in the business of luck. They need to prepare for every disaster scenario, every contingency and ensure that even when every object, job and process is running 100% perfectly on the system, some other unforeseen network element doesn't swoop in and ruin all their efforts, just because it resides outside the parameters of the System i. After all, in a situation like this, people remember the one thing that went wrong – not the millions of things that went right – it's unfortunate, but that's life. |
