As mentioned earlier, securing the perimeter and data is the key. Knowing what is going on in real-time is equally important. Let's look at some of the options that you have, to monitor your instances, apart from the afore mentioned deployment utility tool which also offers a monitoring dashboard for our virtual machine instances and other assets.
Using IBM Tivoli® software to monitor your IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise services can be either done by using a pre-build image for the task such as Tivoli® Monitoring, or installed manually inside or outside an IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise location.
Using IBM Tivoli® Monitoring, you can monitor virtual machine resources and trigger a variety of automated actions—such as sending alert messages or provisioning virtual machines—based on the results. Find more information in the developerWorks article Monitor IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise virtual machines with IBM Tivoli Monitoring at www.ibm.com/developerworks...