Project - Volvo Cars

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Project Information

  • Project Name: Volvo Cars
  • Role: Senior Software Engineer
  • Project Duration: January 2016 – June 2019
  • Location: Göteborg, Sweden & Pune, India

Description

The Centralized Monitoring Solution project at Volvo aimed to bring together the company's vast IT infrastructure, distributed across the globe, under a single and unified monitoring solution. The project entailed integrating various applications, databases, devices, and other IT assets in accordance with industry standard practices to improve visibility and control over the organization's IT environment. As a result, the project aimed to enhance efficiency and support Volvo's position as a leader in the transportation manufacturing industry.

Project Responsibilities

Monitoring Tools:

Netcool Suite, ITM, Netcool Impact, IBM Jazz

Observability Tools:

Dynatrace, Elastic Stack, Grafana

Database:

Oracle

Operating System:

RedHat Linux, AIX, Windows

  • End-to-end deployment and configuration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Netcool Suite, and IBM APM
  • Design and development of complex monitoring situations to meet specific customer requirements utilizing SNMP and other protocols
  • Creation and implementation of SNMP rules to monitor various network infrastructure components such as routers, switches, and access points
  • Integration of IBM Tivoli tools with other third-party monitoring solutions, such as SCOM, HP SIM, CISCO UCS, and SolarWinds, utilizing APIs and other integration mechanisms
  • Integration of Netcool Omnibus with ServiceNow for incident management
  • Development of advanced IBM Jazz dashboards utilizing APM data source and other data sources
  • Configuration of Maintenance Window Management for devices under maintenance to prevent false alarms during maintenance windows
  • Deployment and configuration of Dynatrace OneAgents and application-specific plugins to provide detailed performance monitoring of various applications
  • Implementation of Dynatrace ActiveGate to enable private synthetic HTTP monitors for monitoring internal and external services
  • Deployment and configuration of the ElasticStack for testing and exploration of capabilities such as log data analysis, real-time monitoring, and data visualization
  • Configuration of LogStash to inject application logs to the ElasticSearch engine for log data analysis and visualization
  • Deployment and configuration of Grafana for advanced data visualization utilizing ElasticSearch data source and other data sources
  • Regular customer interaction to understand their requirements and provide the best solution utilizing various communication channels
  • Providing training sessions to operators to handle IBM Tivoli tools and maximize monitoring capabilities utilizing various training methods
  • Comprehensive documentation of the implementation of the centralized monitoring solution