What is included

For most tasks open source is enough. Commercial products are justified with a large estate and reporting requirements.

Discuss the scope

Monitoring

Availability and health of servers, network hardware, services and links.

Inventory

Automatic collection of data about hardware and installed software across the network.

Licence tracking

What is installed against what is paid for. The two usually differ in both directions.

Remote access

Connecting to workstations for support, with session logging.

Update management

Centralised patching instead of walking round the machines.

Alerting

Thresholds and routing configured so that notifications get read rather than ignored.

How the work runs

Deploying a baseline set takes one to two weeks including threshold tuning.

01

Assessment

The size of the estate, the number of sites and what hurts right now.

02

Selection

Open source or commercial products depending on scale and requirements.

03

Deployment

Installation, connecting the hosts, configuring rules and alerts.

04

Threshold tuning

We adjust it over the first weeks to remove false positives.

Monitoring that produces a stream of false alerts is worse than no monitoring at all. Within two weeks the administrator stops reading the notifications, and a real incident gets lost in the noise. That is why thresholds are tuned to your infrastructure rather than left at their defaults.

Frequently asked questions

For a typical estate of up to a hundred devices, open source is enough: it is mature and capable. Paying makes sense for reporting convenience, vendor support and scale from several hundred hosts upwards.

A spreadsheet is out of date the day it is written. Automatic collection shows the real state: what is installed, which versions and where updates are missing. It also gives you a ready base for licence tracking.

Availability of servers and network hardware, free disk space and the state of the backups. Those four things cover most of the incidents that companies otherwise hear about from users.

We will select your administration tools

Tell us about your hardware estate and what hurts right now. We will propose a set of tools, starting with the free ones.