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Internal and External Monitoring and ControlAt the outset, it will become clear that there are two levels of monitoring:
The distinction between Internal and External Monitoring is an important one. If Service Operation focuses only on Internal Monitoring, it will have very well-managed infrastructure, but no way of understanding or influencing the quality of services. If it focuses only on External Monitoring, it will understand how poor the service quality is, but will have no idea what is causing it or how to change it. In reality, most organizations have a combination of Internal and External Monitoring, but in many cases these are not linked. For example, the Server Management team knows exactly how well the servers are performing and the Service Level Manager knows exactly how the users perceive the quality of service provided by the servers. However, neither of them knows how to link these metrics to define what level of server performance represents good quality service. This becomes even more confusing when server performance that is acceptable in the middle of the month, is not acceptable at month-end. Date: 2014-12-29; view: 1296
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