IT Management Blog | Pulseway
Top 5 Best Practices for System Administrators
Who better to use as a reference than the people who practice the fine art of system administration themselves? The SAGE-IE group actually published ten rules for System Administrators in this presentation, but we decided to take their top five and go into a bit of depth on each one for you....
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How to Avoid a 40-Minute Commute for a 30 Second Fix
Managing your IT infrastructure is a tough job and it's especially tough on those given the task of maintenance, on-call rotations, and outages. A filesystem fills up and an alert fires. A service fails and another alert goes out to administrators. A server goes offline and an alert eventually hits the mobile phones of the technical support staff. Unfortunately, the administrators who receive the alerts are sometimes far away from their computers and can't reach them in a timely manner to investigate or to resolve the issues at hand. On the surface, this looks like the perfect opportunity to implement a remote management solution so that administrators can respond immediately to alerts...
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Top Six Benefits of Managing IT from your Smartphone
Pulseway's solution offers six significant benefits of managing IT from your smartphone:
Device flexibility -You can monitor and control systems from any mobile device.
Location independence - You don't have to stay within quick driving distance away from your systems.
Receive alerts and manage from a single device - A smartphone is the only technology required.
No need for extra software - Manage everything via one app.
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Mobilize your Monitoring and Management with Pulseway
There is a huge misconception that RMM solutions are solely for large enterprises. This simply isn't true. The right RMM solution, implemented in the right way, is a vital part of any IT department in a business. For small organizations, RMM can simplify management of their own or their clients IT, increase efficiency, improve uptime, and so much more.
Work from Anywhere
Being in your company's on-call rotation is no fun. You have to stay close to your computer at all times in fear that if you leave for a few minutes to run an errand or to have dinner, disaster will strike. Your momentary absence could cost your company a lot of money in the time that it takes you to make your way back to your computer. However, you carry a mobile device, or two, everywhere you go these days. ...
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Case Study: University of Auckland Business School
When you're responsible for more than 150 physical and virtual servers and hundreds of virtual desktops that support at least 12,000 students and 600 faculty and staff, you need to make sure you're always on top of your game. And thanks to Pulseway, Eugene Chan, Deputy Director of Digital Services at the University of Auckland Business School, is always on top of his game.
Until recently, Eugene had to lug around a laptop and look for Wi-Fi access if they received any alerts from users about system issues. Now he can monitor server performance and ensure proactive management, wherever they might be, thanks to Pulseway Enterprise Server, all directly on his smartphone or tablet. ...
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