Managing multisite environment of IT operations is not easy. IT service continuity is always a challenge for distributed enterprises with remote sites. The connectivity stands upon the grace of a single point of WAN connection. SD-WAN and failover links are the CIO’s dream in the post-covid in-war world. On the…

In today’s economy, all businesses are digital. All digital business processes depend on business tools and applications, such as ERP. But what is the core element of an application process? It’s called API. What is an API? API = Application Programming Interface Simply put, APIs are the connectors of your software…

In ITIL terminology, “An event can be defined as any detectable or discernible occurrence that has significance for the management of the IT Infrastructure or the delivery of IT service and evaluation of the impact a deviation might cause to the services. …

Along with other features, WatchMyDC has a powerful IT incident management engine. This is how: It listens, it analyzed, and then it takes action. First, WatchMyDC keeps listening for incidents, alerts, tickets, requests, logs, etc through standard Webhook or Syslog. Any IT tool/system/application can push messages to the WatchMyDC platform. Simply put, imagine an NMS is sending every alert to WatchMyDC.

Imagine that you end up in a situation of having multiple OEM infrastructures in your IT operation. You got a blend of rivals — VMware ESXi with Microsoft Hyper-V, Fortigate firewall with Sophos XGS, or Aruba Procurve with Cisco Catalyst. Sure you want to quit your station! But, wait. WatchMyDC…

We were struggling with the disk capacity of a necessary Ubuntu VM. We started building something on a Dev VM but decided to move it to production later on. But we never imagined the disk capacity would appear as a bottleneck later. We had two options to get rid of…

Well, it’s not a bug but a permission error when using the aws_s3 module. We encountered this while using the PUT operation the amazon.aws.aws_s3 module in a playbook with: Ansible v3.6.9 pip3 9.0.1 botocore 1.26.10 boto3 1.23.10 And we hit this error: INFO:AnsibleMonitor:Ansible host failed reason Unable to set object…

Here goes the second part of the WatchMyDC-on-WatchMyDC use case we started writing about last week. We wanted to show the complete process with our WordPress server, but someone just warned us to publish detailed information of this production server. So we have replicated the exact process with another VM. …

WatchMyDC website (www.watchmydc.com) is hosted as a virtual machine on our own host, powered by VMware vSphere while we NAT behind a powerful firewall. As you can imagine, changes are the only constants. So we keep updating our web content to reflect our value propositions and customer stories. Backing up…