ABSTRACT
No amount of careful design and testing can substitute for a thorough and effective operations strategy. From an availability standpoint, monitoring and trending are critical. Eventually, things will go wrong at some point in your operations and you will be measured by how quickly you detect and respond to the failure. e organization’s profitability and perhaps even survival may depend on minimizing or neutralizing the impact of any problems that occur. Setting up early warnings may make all the difference between successfully dealing with a problem, or perhaps avoiding it altogether.
