Central to all IT business network activity, the server is the single most important component of the IT infrastructure. As such, this makes it potentially the biggest single point of network failure. The good news is that modern servers are increasingly robust and rarely fail. The bad news is that when they do, the cost and time loss implications for a business can be horrendous. Worse news still is the fact it is extremely difficult for even the most experienced business IT team to see failure coming.
In an ideal world you'd want to carry out a check on your server every 15 minutes or so 24/7/365 to look for warning signals. If you are in a line of business that may be subject to hackers or virus attacks you'd want to check those too. Most of all you would want to look for the early warning signs and head off disaster before it strikes.
Inventas Monitoring utilises a secure link between mission critical IT business network functions and our own Monitoring tools which are hosted on a dedicated server. This initiates a complete system scan of your servers every 15 minutes to check, among other things, the following criteria: