Server Monitoring

Server monitoring can be performed using manual techniques and automated server monitoring software. Depending on the type of server, server monitoring can have different objectives. For example:

• Application servers are monitored for server availability and responsiveness.
• Storage servers are monitored for availability, capacity, delay and data loss.
• Web servers are monitored for user load, security and speed.

Server monitoring also monitors performance and operations of components and equipment at a granular level, including:

• CPU utilization
• Storage availability
• Communication interface responsiveness

Server monitoring's primarily objective is the protection of a server from possible failure.