“… Speaking at the recent SolarWinds Federal and Government User Group Conference in Washington, DC, Jamison C. (J.C.) Jennings, Visibility Systems Engineer for Salient CGRT, said the VA’s determination to always “be in the know” of the state of their Internet gateways led to what was, when first implemented, a unique approach to Network monitoring: having two instances of SolarWinds network management and monitoring tools running at all times.”
“This “Active/Active” solution, he explained, keeps end users from seeing interruptions while system upgrades are performed. The approach also protects against accidental deletions of critical information, if data is accidentally deleted in one instance, it will be available in the other.”
“An onsite VA contractor of 15 years, Jennings described the range of challenges he’s faced while helping to grow and evolve the VA’s critical systems, along with the best practices they’ve developed to ensure better outcomes…” Read the full article here.
Source: Department of Veterans Affairs Case Study: Managing and Monitoring the Networks and Applications – By Peter Jacobs, May 2, 2019. Government Technology Insider.
