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To illustrate the principle of design documents, we have created a sample design
document with most of the parts included:
Title:
New Monitoring System
Date:
2014-07-19
Author(s):
Strata Chalup
<src@example.com>
and Tom Limoncelli
<tal@example.com>
Reviewers:
Joe, Mary, Jane
Approvers:
Security Operations 2014-08-03, Chris (Build System Tech Lead)
2014-08-04, Sara (Director of Ops) 2014-08-10
Revision Number:
1.0
Status:
Approved
Executive Summary:
Create a monitoring system for devices that will support real-time alerting via
pagers and deploy to production cluster.
Goals:
A monitoring system for our network:
• Be able to monitor at least 10,000 devices, 500 attributes each, collected each
minute.
• Must support real-time alerting via SMS.
• Must retain data for 30 years.
Non-goals:
• Monitoring external systems.
• Building chat functionality into the system.
Background:
Historically we have used home-brew monitoring scripts, but we keep having to
adjust them based on changing platforms. We want to have a standardized way of
monitoring that doesn't require development time on our part as we add plat-
forms.
High-Level Design:
The plan is to use Bosun with remote collectors. The server will be the current
corporate standard configuration for server hardware and Linux. The server will
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