Explanation/Reference:
Infrastructure components have become more dependent on one another, with many of these interdependencies crossing corporate boundaries. Without access to information concerning these dynamic interdependencies, diagnosing and correlating problems in a complex, distributed environment is a huge challenge.
Incorrect answers:
Not having access to the right information and not being able to effectively communicate interdependencies and shared concerns can adversely impact the availability and performance of critical business solutions. Therefore there is a management and visibility gap within conventional approaches that do not fully support today's management and monitoring information needs.
A: Traditionally, different stakeholders within an IT organization have used different siloed IT management and monitoring tools such as event managers and network managers. This has led to monitoring being performed in a siloed manner, whereby network administrators, database administrators, and host administrators utilize siloed and point solution monitoring and management tools.
B: In the past there has been a reliance on architects and engineers to reverse-engineer an application to identify the relationship between an individual infrastructure component and the business function/process that it supports.
E: Conventional monitoring tools have lent themselves to a more bottom-up approach to IT management where the focus has been on the status of individual low level infrastructure components Reference: Oracle Reference Architecture, Management and Monitoring, Release 3.0