Outsourced Network Monitoring

Find out why our network monitoring service detects outages more effectively than any robot monitoring software, service or tool.

From distributed internet locations, our Nagios network monitoring stations conduct rigorous protocol tests on your network services and hardware devices for connectivity, server and database performance, critical ports, CPU load and temperature, hard disk usage levels, new open ports and server vulnerabilities, bandwidth usage and more. Each check interval, the next station in line takes its turn checking your server. Any errors or unusual patterns are verified from other stations to prevent false alarms. On server failure, non responding vital network service, or critical limit of performance, our monitoring system triggers off an alert. Our support personnel then checks the issue manually to filter false alarms and, provided the client has granted prior permission to access the company's servers, our system administrators start fixing the problem immediately. Otherwise the client's staff is notified by e-mail, pager, SMS, or by phone. This procedure ensures solving the problem before users can even notice it.

Our service goes far beyond automatic monitoring services. Not only it controls server availability, performance and security externally from our worldwide network of monitoring stations, but you have up to 2 hours of emergency system admin support per month as well. This way, our monitoring service is not a simple robot, just sending you notification emails - we have a team of system administrators working in shifts 24x7. In case of a critical server issue, our qualified system administrators try to correct the problem straight away.

If you require more system support, please refer to our server administration or database administration services.

Key features:

Monitor any Internet ready device
From 60 seconds check interval
Support for server-side plugins (Linux, FreeBSD, AIX etc)
False alarm prevention
Unlimited number of ports/services (http, https, smtp, ftp, etc.).
Security scanner for known vulnerabilities and open ports
Instant qualifyed sysadmin help, 2 hours of sysamin time per month.
Service level agreement reporting

useful resorces:

http://nagios.org/	- Nagios is a host and service monitor;
http://www.zabbix.com/	- advanced monitoring, alerting and visualisation features;
http://www.netmrg.net/	- tool for network monitoring, reporting, and graphing. Based on RRDTOOL, open source graphing systems;
http://rtg.sourceforge.net//	- high-performance SNMP statistics monitoring system for enterprises and service providers;
http://mrtg.org/	- The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network links;
http://www.cacti.net/	- complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality;
http://www.bigsister.ch/	- SNMP-aware monitoring program. It runs under various Unixes and Windows;
http://ibmonitor.sourceforge.net/	- interactive linux console application which shows bandwidth consumed and total data transferred on all interfaces;
www.tildeslash.com/monit/	- utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system;
http://munin.projects.linpro.no/	- monitoring tool surveys all your computers and presents all the information in graphs through a web interface;
http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/	- general-purpose scheduler and alert management tool used for monitoring service availability and triggering alerts upon failure detection;
http://dmr.ath.cx/net/darkstat/	- packet sniffer that runs as a background process on a cable/DSL router, gathers all sorts of statistics about network usage, and serves them over HTTP;