Re: At DEC's headquarters in Maynard
@JamesPond
"And that is why you should have an external system monitoring and alerting, not rely on kit on just one site."
And that is assuming there is the budget and the equipment to do this. Most company IT systems don't have that luxury. And a big part of the problem, for a long time, was BT - let's be honest. Given the cost of leased lines back in the day, it was cripplingly expensive to monitor client equipment.
In 2000 we had a guy come in to demo Unicenter TNG to us. Nice South African chap. He tried to push it that we could use this to monitor a remote system over a simple leased line. Then we explained to him how much leased lines cost in the UK...
Somewhat different these days, but it still assumes that you have multiple sites to play with.
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