What is Remote Monitoring?
April 4th, 2018 by admin
What sets expert technology users apart is their knowledge of how to properly maintain their PC, and prevent problems before they occur. IT professionals use remote monitoring tools to provide expert maintenance with as little interruption as possible. Whether you’re a self-proclaimed expert, completely unfamiliar with remote monitoring, or fall somewhere in between, the following toolsets, tips and techniques can help you get more from your backend tools. One of the most hotly sought after services from IT professionals is remote monitoring. With remote monitoring tools, experts can do all the maintenance and safeguarding that they do on their own computers, but they are able to do so remotely. This means that they can maintain and protect each employee or user without ever leaving HQ.How it Works
Although strategies for remote monitoring will vary by technicians and providers, there are some key features that are true of all systems. Remote monitoring seeks to keep computers healthy with as little interruption to the end user as possible. To accomplish this, there are a number of important tools used to keep everything up-to-date. These toolsets ensure that patches are completed on time, newly created viruses are being blocked, drivers and hardware are all functioning normally, backups are in place and much more. At Equinox, our back-end team (also known as Team Awesome) has multiple toolsets that they have developed over the years that allow them to manage more than one thousand devices. Hundreds of scripts have been integrated into the toolsets to deploy changes and fixes efficiently. They have volumes of professional knowledge to interpret enormous amounts of monitoring alarms, statistics, and other data.Network Connectivity
Remote monitoring uses the Internet and Local Area Network to feed your data to technicians and allow remote access. Because of this, the hours that your computer is on and connected to the internet affect how easily remote monitoring can benefit your PC. If a computer is always powered down, it will be extremely difficult to take care of, causing it to fall behind on its immunizations and other protections that toolsets can provide. If you have remote monitoring on your desktop computer, in general, it’s best to leave it on as much as possible, restarting it between once a day to every other day. This is a bit trickier for devices like laptops that are typically are typically not kept on all the time. It’s okay to keep your laptop turned off when it’s not in use, but try to have it on for most of the day once or twice a week. This is a good practice for all devices, regardless of if they have remote monitoring; it ensures your device has the proper time to install patches. Remote monitoring will be our theme for the month of April. We will be getting into more detail about how and why our monitoring tools do what they do, and will have more tips for getting the most out of your backend monitoring. Feel free to send us your questions and comments! We love hearing from you.Posted in: Tech Tips, Products, Technology, Toolsets