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Case Study

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments

The Need For IT Monitoring Why Opsview? Deployment and Result


MIT has a complex infrastructure environ- MIT selected Opsview primarily due to The significant number of service

ment comprising of approximately 2500 its scalability and the ease of migration checks running under Nagios was

servers across three data centers in the from Nagios. Since Opsview is built on causing delays to notifications. Opsview

Boston metropolitan area. MIT had the open source Nagios platform, it has allowed MIT to distribute its

previously used in-house developed allowed MIT to utilize all their existing workload across multiple servers to

monitoring tools based on Nagios. The monitoring infrastructure but with greatly improve notification times and

scale of the environment was starting to enhanced functionality, thanks to performance, allowing the team to be

reach the limits of the Nagios platform and Opsview’s out-of-the-box service more proactive in preventing outage.

MIT needed to find a way to take its Nagios checks, configurable dashboards and Opsview has greatly improved the
investment to the next level. reporting features. monitoring and reporting at MIT.

About
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a
private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a
total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis
on scientific, engineering, and technological education and
research. MIT’s Associate Director of Operations and
Infrastructure, Mark Silis, heads up the team responsible
for the technologies to enable delivery of service and
maintenance of communications at the university. This
includes developing key IT projects on campus and at
Industry: Education
MIT’s data centers, server and system administration, Location: Massachusetts, US
virtualization, networks, and security. Employees: 1,000-5,000

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Why Opsview?
MIT selected Opsview primarily due to its scalability and the ease of migration from Nagios. Since Opsview is built
on the open source Nagios platform, it allowed MIT to utilize all their existing monitoring infrastructure but with
enhanced functionality, thanks to Opsview’s out-of-the-box service checks, configurable dashboards and reporting
features. This now provides MIT with an overall management view of their infrastructure environment.

“Opsview leverages the open source Nagios platform and that


allowed us to utilize our existing investment in Nagios monitoring plugins
and configuration management and easily migrate to the Opsview platform.”
Mark Silas, Associate Director of Operations and Infrastructure at MIT

The Deployment
The significant number of service checks running under Nagios was causing delays to notifications. Opsview has
allowed MIT to distribute its workload across multiple servers to greatly improve notification times and perfor-
mance, allowing the team to be more proactive in preventing outages. Opsview has given MIT the new capability to
see the overall health and performance of the infrastructure in a single pane of glass.

A Single Pane of Glass - “Reporting and configuration management have been


one of the more complex issues we were facing, and Opsview provides some
wonderful dashboards and reports that are incredibly valuable in providing
a macro level view of the overall infrastructure’s health and performance.”
Mark Silas, Associate Director of Operations and Infrastructure at MIT

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The Result
Opsview has greatly improved the monitoring and report-
ing of the MIT infrastructure environment. It has replaced
the previous Nagios monitoring system, and the
configuration management system that was developed
internally for the Nagios environment.

Opsview provides improved performance and


functionality while reducing the risk of using custom tools
and protecting MIT’s existing investment.

About Opsview
Opsview makes it easier for sysadmins to do their jobs by offering comprehensive and customizable systems
monitoring. The Opsview platform enables sysadmins to easily monitor the complex enterprise IT environments that
support critical business services, with native support for more than 3,500 technology plugins and integrations with IT
operations tools. Highly configurable dashboards allow sysadmins to effectively visualize and report on the health of their
IT infrastructure, enabling proactive maintenance. Opsview is trusted by hundreds of businesses, government
organizations and managed service providers globally. Customers include MIT, Sky, Cisco, IBM, Telefónica, Daimler,
British Telecom, Fujitsu, AXA and VMware.

Try Opsview at www.opsview.com

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