Cross-media data integration of measurement data

• Our customer’s department has the task of monitoring many distributed server systems and installed applications.
• The evaluation of the system key figures (CPU utilization, number of sessions, etc.) was originally carried out manually, individually per system and document-based.
• The data had to be prepared individually on the distributed systems and transferred manually to a central evaluation point.
• The evaluation of the monitoring data was time-consuming and was only carried out very sporadically due to the effort involved.
• Employees were heavily involved in administrative activities.
• The logistical problems were manifold, in particular the technical possibilities of data collection in the target infrastructures were restrictive due to the individual IT departments.

We found the following situations:

• No restriction
• All network traffic was prohibited, e-mail was permitted
• All network traffic was prohibited, data had to be transferred via USB
• Established communication via certain channels was allowed, e.g. via Nextcloud

• In order to provide similar environments for different customers, an approach had to be developed.
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