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<span class="published alignright">March 14, 2013</span>
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Network monitoring within the
public sector has unique challenges and these challenges have to be
addresed through delivery of unique solutions. Public IT systems need to
be accessible to a greater number of people and need to be reliable
with minimal or no system down time. At any given time a public IT
system can be serving tens, hundreds or thousands of simultaneous
concurrent requests.</div></div>
<p>Public IT systems need to support a wide range of various
technologies and services, and at the same time accountability and
traceability is important for legal reasons. Best practice dictates that
public sector systems be widely networked and shared geographically
and/or between numerous municipalities or administrations. Without
proper system monitoring this can be a nightmare to manage.</p>
<p>System monitoring allows operators and administrators to pick up
network anomalies quickly, pintpoint problems and engage rapid response
mechanisms to address issues which could affect service delivery. Our
question today, what kind of monitoring do you think could have helped
with the recent IEBC IT system failure?</p>