>"Monitoring" usually implies having a defined acceptance threshold on the metric, and triggering some (probably human) response when the metric is in an unacce

>"Monitoring" usually implies having a defined acceptance threshold on the metric, and triggering some (probably human) response when the metric is in an unacceptable range. Like the Smart data on your Hard-drives? The increasingly (over month) thrown away packets of a dying Network card? Or that one Fan that increasingly spins slower then all others? Look Hard is not different from Software, both need to be Monitored having a close look on "trends" and want to be Maintained.