With the advancement of automation technology, many IT automation operation and maintenance tools have appeared on the market. However, many people are not very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of IT automation operation and maintenance tools. Here we will briefly analyze and analyze them together.
Advantages of IT automation operation and maintenance tools
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 IT automation operation and maintenance tools
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.
Key recommendations for automated operation and maintenance tools-Xingyun Guanjia
Xingyun Manager supports automated operation and maintenance, performs operation and maintenance tasks in standardized and automated ways, and improves IT operation and maintenance efficiency. The 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.