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How Network Management Speeds Research at Baylor College of Medicine
2/7/2008
Finally, the network analysis provided by Hyperic encompasses open source products, a real draw for a lab that uses lots of open source software. "Most of our database-driven applications run off a PostgreSQL backend," King said. "This includes our primary data collection database, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 gigabytes." As King pointed out, while many products--especially those from the largest vendors--will inform the sys admin that a database is available or not, few will actually dive into the tables and spell out specifics.
King said he's hoping a future version will automate the configuration of adding new hardware to his network. For example, currently when a new drive is added, he has to inform the software to add the new hardware to the alert group that tells him when a disk is 95 percent full. He'd prefer that it recognize the type of hardware being added and configure it with parameters that match similar devices.
But he said he's content until then. "Most importantly, it does exactly what I need it to do. And that's really valuable."
That's crucial, he said, because the lab is only growing. With the addition of the new scanners, Baylor has committed to hiring additional faculty, all with their own funding and expectations of using the lab like a service center. Said King, "I went from one boss to five in the last year."
Those new hires will also bring in their own hardware, which will challenge the lab's technical infrastructure. King isn't worried. "I can throw a Hyperic agent on there. Now I know exactly what to expect. I don't have to worry about trying to figure out what happened to all the disk space."
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business. Send your higher education technology news to her at dian@dischaffhauser.com.
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