Towards a Multi-Layer IT Infrastructure Monitoring Approach based on Enterprise Architecture Information

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tools play an important supporting role in IT management of organizations to align their IT infrastructure to actual business needs. The continuously measurement and observation of each layer in an enterprise architecture is critical in order to achieve an holistic view about the EA operation. This paper describes a concept how to exploit and extend the metainformation of an IT architecture documented in an EA tool in order to support a multi-layer monitoring approach that provides traceability and correlation between monitoring data extracted from several abstraction layers.