What is included

We monitor not only availability but quality: a link can respond while still dropping packets.

Discuss the scope

Hardware monitoring

Availability, load, temperature, port errors and power supply status.

Link monitoring

Speed, latency and packet loss for each provider separately.

Failover testing

Regular simulation of a primary link failure. A backup that has never been tested usually does not work.

Access management

Firewall rules, contractor access and the guest network.

Updates

Device firmware in agreed windows, with a rollback plan.

Documentation

The diagram and configurations kept current rather than written once at deployment.

How the work runs

Connecting monitoring takes a few days. After that the work runs continuously with monthly reporting.

01

Inventory

What the hardware is, which links exist and who is connected.

02

Connecting monitoring

Metric collection, alert thresholds and routing notifications to the duty engineer.

03

Tidying up

Updates, default passwords and unnecessary open access.

04

Ongoing work

Responding to events, planned maintenance and reports on incidents and load.

A backup link nobody has tested is not a backup, it is hope. It may have been cut off for non-payment, configured incorrectly, or require manual switching. A quarterly test turns hope into fact.

Frequently asked questions

At minimum: device availability, link utilisation, port errors and free space on devices that keep logs. That catches most problems early. Extend it as incidents arise.

To the duty engineer, not to a shared mailbox. An alert that is read once a day is no different from no alert at all. Thresholds are tuned so there is no flood of false positives, otherwise people stop noticing them.

Not necessarily. For typical infrastructure, open source is enough and we deploy and configure it. Commercial systems are justified with many sites and complex reporting requirements.

We will take your network under monitoring

Tell us how many sites you have and what the hardware is. We will connect monitoring and route alerts to the duty engineer.