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Chapter 1 Distributed Application Monitoring : Distributed Application Monitoring Challenges

Distributed Application Monitoring Challenges
Computer systems today drive many aspects of business, controlling services and processes, transmitting information and identifying patterns and decisions. Increasingly the world is automated - yet who and what monitors the computers doing this work? How can we check their performance from the multitude of system parameters and program outputs?
System monitoring solutions require a number of capabilities to effectively aid the administrators of these systems. The operational alerts they create can also be used themselves as useful information in business applications that might track outputs from computer based measuring systems for example.
Monitoring Requirements
There are several requirements for operational systems monitoring. These include:
Most monitoring systems follow the keep it simple mantra for implementing monitoring. They might collect data via logs into a centralized server where scripts can execute against the monitor data – traditionally log file records – to determine required actions. However, TIBCO Hawk’s designers anticipated some additional requirements:

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