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BUSINESS IT SUPPORT  

NETWORKING  &  SERVER SUPPORT 

NETWORK SUPPORT:

Performing proactive and scheduled network maintenance ensures maximum reliability and the overall lowest TCO through minimizing costs and productivity losses that are associated with downtime and replacement. Preventative maintenance is normally included within our standard support packages; however, we also provide maintenance services to those clients who have an in-house IT team and who want their team to be allocated to more specialised tasks.

Our program of pre-defined and fully documented preventative maintenance tasks uses our qualified staff and industry recommended processes.  

Each maintenance task can be performed at a standard frequency or on a specific nominated basis appropriate for your environment. 

▪  Patch management

▪  Log file review and corrective action

▪  Security vulnerability testing

▪  Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam management

▪  Active directory account review

▪  Archiving and data file management

▪  Routine backup verification and test restores

▪  Threshold trending and management - CPU, RAM, disk, network bandwidth

▪  Application interoperability and alerts

▪  Asset management tasks

▪  Custom maintenance tasks developed to meet unique requirements.

 

SERVER SUPPORT:

Server Logs

Compare event logs errors and warnings against database of known errors. Investigate any "unknown" errors for severity. Escalate any appropriate errors as Incidents via maintenance team.  

Server Patching
Review Critical updates and prepare for periodic application. Confirm a suitable Change Window with the client, check backups, apply critical patches, reboot, and test server functions. Optionally apply non-critical patches depending on server role. 

Server Anti-Virus
Verify server anti-virus protection software is running correctly and virus definitions are being updated. Escalate any Virus definition update failures as Incidents. Compare Virus errors and warnings against database of known errors. 

Server Disk Capacity

Check remaining disk capacity, all relevant partitions. Establish and maintain relevant free disk space alert thresholds. Escalate any disk space threshold breaches as Incidents. 

Server Optimisation

Review the server for overall performance Examine disk I/O, RAM, CPU, check fragmentation, perform relevant clean-up tasks. 

Database Maintenance

Monitor MS Exchange and MS SQL server database size, Check Message queue length, Check running processes.