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How many times have you wished you knew a customer's storage was almost full, or the temperature in their data closet was starting to rise, or even their Internet T1 was beginning to experience packet loss. How many desperate situations and 11th hour rescues could you avoid with the fore knowledge of impending problems.

 

In Business the difference between success and failure can be measured in minutes. This is never more true that when it comes to network monitoring. Knowing a server is down, or the temperature is rising in the data closet means being able to take quick action. And minutes can mean the difference between experiencing a minor disruption, or having a major catastrophe on your hands.

With an effective monitoring system in place you'll receive alarms anytime your customer's systems begin to show warning signs. To monitor your customer's network, Carroll-Net will provide the following:

 

  • We'll provide your customer with their own onsite probe
  • The probe will send alarms to our Datacenter when it detects trouble
  • Carroll-Net will route the alarms to your cell phone, pager or email 24 hours a day
  • And if the probe becomes unreachable, we'll let you know that as well.

 

Pricing

Network Monitoring service is sold by the probe. Each probe is $100 month. Most customer's will only ever need a single probe device. Even those customers with multiple offices typically only require a single probe.

 

Technology

The onsite probe can monitor an unlimited number of systems and configurations. To put it simply, if you can define the test, we can monitor it.

Here's just a sample of some of things we monitor today for our customers:

 

  • Server up/down
  • Server Response Time
  • Server Disk Storage
  • Server temperature
  • Network services functioning
  • Application availability (counting processes)
  • Database responsiveness (measured in milliseconds)
  • Database Integrity (correct data)
  • Number of user's logged in (too many, too few)
  • Number of backlogged email messages
  • Internet Up/Down
  • Internet routing instabilities
  • DNS Repsonsiveness
  • System clock accuracy (affects user login capability)
  • and many, many more...

 

Probe Protocols

Below is a partial list of protocols the probe can use to monitor equipment

 

  • SNMP / WMI / Ping
  • HTTP / HTTPS
  • SMTP / POP3 / IMAP4 / Exchange
  • FTP / SSH / SCP
  • NTP
  • RDP / ICA
  • SQL / Oracle / Postgres/ MySql
  • Radius / Kerberos
  • LDAP / DNS / Active Directory
  • NFS / CIFS
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 05 December 2007 22:17 )