Important concepts

Opsview offers an easy to use, highly configurable, and robust monitoring platform, providing IT departments with a unique view into the health of their IT estate.

For those already well versed with the world of monitoring, there are some conceptual differences in how Opsview approaches monitoring in comparison to other solutions (if you are new to the subject, please read on as these concepts will help you understand how Opsview operates).

If you are new to the subject, have a look at the official documentation site for Opsview (http://docs.opsview.com) and the blogs from Opsview (http://www.opsview.com/whats-new).

At its core, Opsview aims to be a single window for your IT operations, giving a centralized, multi-layered view into the heart of your environment and offering a variety of ways to keep it healthy and operating at peak efficiency.

Flexibility is the key part of a system and using smart and adaptive methods allows for a versatile setup, and seemingly complex monitoring challenges can be easily configured and maintained.

Information gathered by Opsview can be viewed in various different forms and depending on what type of data we are looking at, using these different forms can help you better understand and interpret vital information related to your IT operations.

While in most cases being flexible means there are too many options to configure, Opsview aims at being easy to use and easy to configure by using templates, cloning, and automation to vastly simplify running and maintaining a system. Opsview uses the powerful Nagios engine at its core, performing various tasks when users interact with the Opsview web interface (http://your-opsview-system:3000) to handle all the configuration and display tasks.