In the face of increasingly complex businesses and increasingly diverse user needs, the requirements for IT operation and maintenance are getting higher and higher, and the work of IT operation and maintenance personnel is becoming more and more complicated. Therefore, how to ensure fast and safe IT services are a top priority. At this time, automated operation and maintenance is needed. Today we will briefly talk about what is automated operation and maintenance, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of automated operation and maintenance, for reference only!
Definition of automated operation and maintenance
To put it simply, automated operation and maintenance is to hand over periodic, repetitive, and regular tasks to tools or platforms, and convert manual execution in the past into automated operations. Automated operation and maintenance is the sublimation of IT operation and maintenance. It is not only a maintenance process, but also a management improvement process. It is the highest level of IT operation and maintenance and is also the future development trend.
Advantages of automated operation and maintenance
1. Improve the work efficiency of IT operation and maintenance staff and improve the overall project efficiency;
2. Improve the value of operation and maintenance work, manage more resources, and serve more objects;
3. Make the operation and maintenance work easier and smarter;
4. Reduce human misoperation, make IT assets safer and reduce costs;
5. Transactions leave traces, which is convenient for tracking and tracing;
6. Facilitate information transfer, configuration information aggregation, and a more complete information chain;
7. High availability, which can monitor alarms, reduce network downtime, and reduce failures.
Disadvantages of automated operation and maintenance
1. In the early stage, operation and maintenance personnel need to spend time learning and using;
2. Operation and maintenance personnel are required to continuously monitor and adjust to ensure the normal operation and effectiveness of automation tools;
3. Operation and maintenance personnel are required to have a certain technical level and be able to maintain and optimize automation scripts and tools.
[Summary]: Automated operation and maintenance can improve operation and maintenance efficiency and productivity, reduce costs, and improve the quality and availability of enterprise IT services. But it needs the support of operation and maintenance personnel, so it is very important to choose reliable automatic operation and maintenance software.
Knowledge expansion: key recommendations for automated operation and maintenance tools
Generally, the selection of IT automation operation and maintenance tools needs to consider multiple factors, such as cost performance, functionality, ease of use, which operating systems/platforms are supported, and which environments are supported, etc. At the same time, it is also necessary to select the appropriate tool according to the specific business needs and technical environment. So it is recommended that you choose Xingyun Butler. Xingyun Manager supports automated operation and maintenance, and performs operation and maintenance tasks in standardized and automated ways to improve the efficiency of IT operation and maintenance. Its specific functions are as follows:
1. Support the industry-renowned SaltStack/ansible operation and maintenance tool library, and support users to create various custom Shell/Python/PowerShell/CMD scripts, which can execute scripts and commands on hosts in batches, and distribute files to target hosts in batches. Collect files from multiple hosts to realize various batch operation and maintenance operations on multiple hosts.
2. Users can arrange operation and maintenance tasks according to business requirements, and set various trigger conditions. Once triggered, the system can automatically execute the corresponding programmed tasks, such as: cloud host automatic upgrade, application automatic deployment, etc. Automated O&M needs.