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Monitoring as a service
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Monitoring as a Service is the security, namely, of business networks and mobile networks through the
internet for events, database, application, transaction and system incidents. Monitoring as a service has been
becoming increasingly popular since 2007 with the rise of cloud computing and utility computing.

Utility computing consumers sign up online and specify the services they want monitored, receive alerts via
email, deploy automated responses, rules, correlation with other events as well as user generated reports by
email or web. This avoids the need to implement a monitoring infrastructure (hardware and software) and
allows them to consume the service on a utility computing basis based. Previously users needed to set up and
maintain dedicated systems running software on premise.

Monitoring as a Service is billed in actual elapsed CPU time rather than a large upfront investment or
monthly subscription fee. Utility computing consumers pay for actual utility service consumption. For
example, if the Monitoring as a Service system is used for 56 actual elased CPU seconds on Monday and not
used for the rest of the month, the utility computing consumer is only charged for 56 seconds of service.

The mission for Monitoring as a Service is to provided the utility computing consumer with high value
computing services at an affordable cost. This will not only streamline the cost structure for the consumer
industry but also for government and non profit organizations as well. For instance, medical institutions can
access high value utility computing services on an as needed basis to save their customer money and life.

Platforms supported for Monitoring as a Service are distributed i.e Windows, Unix and Linux, Cloud
Computing, Mainframe i.e System Z and z/OS, and mobile networks.

Protocols supported for Monitoring as a Service are SEMP (Simple Event Mangement Protocol), SOAP (
Simple Object Access Protocol ), SNMP (Simple Network Protocol) and HTTP (Hypertext Transfer
Protocol)

Monitoring as a Service for transactions leverage synthetic transaction and real-time usage monitoring based
on actual usage from the transaction consumer. Synthetic transactions are developed and deployed to
monitoring as a service the availability of transactions for end users before the consumer experiences
performance and/or availability issues. Protocols for transaction monitoring include HTTP, HTTPS as well as
application and system specific propiatary protocols. For example, web application that use HTTP or
HTTPS. In addition synthetic transactions can be used for propiatary binary financial transaction protocols
for response time and availability monitoring.

Monitoring as a Service for applications require the deployment of a data collector for the collection of
monitoring metrics. Also specific ports and firewall changes are set to enable access for the data collector to
respond to the monitoring as a service utility computing provider. For instance, SEMP TCP port 9990 needs
to be open for the monitoring server and data collector to communicate.

Monitoring as a Service for security across cloud computing networks, IT networks and mobile networks is
to identify incidents and security breeches across distributed infrastructures and ecosystems. Security for
cloud computing prevents hackers to gain access to control of a large amount of servers and applications.

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For instance, a virtualized cloud computing infrastructure with 100,000 server instances is required to
prevent allowing control to hackers and to identify security threats initiated by hackers to gain access to
management applications and servers as well as allowing hackers access to utility computing consumer
services and applications.

Monitoring as a Service for systems delivers monitoring metrics from components to monitor operating
system specific information. Systems monitoring includes information to view the status of the hardware
used by the operating system. Examples for metrics collected and monitored are CPU utilization, memory
and disk.

Contents
1 Legal
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

Legal
U.S. Trademark 77,484,486 (http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77484486) CAM
Solutions LLC registered to the USPTO to trademark the descriptive and generic term on 27 May 2008 with
a first use anywhere date of 25 April 2008 for Monitoring services, namely of business networks and mobile
networks through the internet for events, database, application, transaction and system incidents.

Current Status: Registered.

Registration Date: 2008-12-09

References
CAM Solutions Composite Application Management Solutions (http://www.camsolutionsinc.com/)
Cloud Autonomics Cloud Autonomics (http://www.cloudautonomics.com)
Cloud Assets Cloud Assets (http://www.cloudassets.com/)
Utility Status UtilityStatus (http://www.utilitystatus.com/)
Cloud Request CloudRequest (http://www.cloudrequest.com/)

See also
Cloud computing
Utility computing
Software as a Service

External links
CAM Solutions CAMLET (http://www.camsolutionsinc.com/)
Cloud Autonomics Cloud Autonomics (http://www.cloudautonomics.com)
Cloud Assets Cloud Assets (http://www.cloudassets.com/)
Utility Status UtilityStatus (http://www.utilitystatus.com/)

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Cloud Request CloudRequest (http://www.cloudrequest.com/)

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