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Managed Services for Networks

 

Service Overview...

Managed Network is like your own virtual IT staff. With this service, we can help you:

  • Manage costs. Effectively predict network costs and pinpoint problem areas to prevent unnecessary upgrades. Reduce network outages, and improve response and repair times for outages. In addition our managed services is able to provide daily technical support without the added cost of support site calls.
  • Increase efficiency. Let our network management tools free up your time. Get proactive, automatic trouble response and resolution.
  • Our Managed Services will also provide your company with priority technical support at a discounted service rate.
  • Access to our Remote Support Solution at a discounted rate. Our remote support solution is designed to allow us in the quickest time possible to determine what the problem is - can it be fixed remotely - if not a Support Tech will be sent to your location without delay.
  • Help Desk Services to Manage Your Software Needs.

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Our Managed Network Services includes several features and while it is not required to utilize all its features greatest success can be achieved by utilizing:

 

  1. Our consulting team before making purchases regarding your network equipment - computers - servers and network infrastructure. With our sources to hardware - other certified partners and our years experience Elite Network Solutions can help in making sure that the right equipment is purchased.
  2. Our Team of Network Engineers who have experience in the products we sell will make sure that your purchases are setup properly and are performing as expected.
  3. As we deal with many vendors - and of course our partnerships we are able to obtain expert levels of technical support on those products.
  4. Our Managed Network Services include other features such as 24/7 Server monitoring that includes the monitoring of key network services - performance issues. As this information is sent to our office every two to three minutes this allows our engineers to respond quickly to your network problems. In addition our solutions provides many powerful reporting features that allows us to view complex details such as performance trends in your servers. This gives us the ability to make projections based on real time data.
  5. Increased efficiency is obtained by proactive technical support based on our monitoring service - and our remote support services that can include any server or computer in your network. Remote support services can be viewed as a first step into problem resolution and it help to determine problems and solutions and required resources.
  6. Our remote Support Services can also be used to act as a Help Desk Service for common issues and Software Support. View our qualifications for more details on how Elite Network Solutions is the IT Company to deal with.

As these are complex services our Managed Network Services costs are determined by size of your network - number of users - support services required. Feel free to send your inquiry to info@elitesolutions.info and we will be more then happy to supply information with no obligation.

Remote Support and Help Desk Services...

Have you ever wished that your employees had an affordable help desk solution?

How many times have your employees struggled with a task when perhaps a quick call to our help desk would solve the issue in minutes.

Well look no further as our help desk service is ready to help you with all your software problems.

Our help desk service is available Monday thru to Sat 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM.

send email to info@elitesolutions.info and we will explain all the features of our help desk and remote support services

Server Monitoring...

 

  Elite Network Solutions offers 24/7/365 Server Monitoring to complement our Server Service Contracts and Managed Network Services. Our monitoring service aims at maintaining a high level of server uptime for your business as this service allows our support engineers to see in real time the current state of your servers.

Now even Small Businesses can enjoy a piece of mind and a service that truly offers value for the price of a cup of coffee per day. Our monitoring service is able to monitor servers across Canada and the USA.

In addition to 24/7 Server monitoring Elite Network Solutions has added on to this service to include security scans of networks. Our security scans are able to reveal issues such as missing security patches on servers, workstations, back door Trojans  and other TCP/IP ports that may be open on your network. This feature greatly enhances our managed network services.

 

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Server Monitoring Overview

 

Consider the following -  a lot of IT companies offer support contracts for Servers - but can they offer 24/7/365 server monitoring of all your critical network services? Our monitoring service was months in the making and its sole purpose is to add value to our support contracts. Our Solution provides the following;

  • Real time view of your servers 24/7 - logging in to your servers and reviewing log files etc are only a small part of managing a server. Our powerful solution provides real time stats as they happen and we are able to generate powerful reports that will allow us to advise
    1. Server needs
    2. Server upgrades
    3. hardware upgrades
  • Review of critical services and notification when those services are failing. This allows us to be truly proactive with our technical support.
  • Review of Server hardware and notification when those hardware components are about to fail such as
    1. hard drives
    2. CPU overload

Based on our experience often servers are located into areas where they are not readily accessible. Often those same servers are not even looked at from one day to the next. With our monitoring solutions you will know that your server is always being watched with real time reports and stats. Even pending failure of hard drives can be easily detected before they happen.

Our software solution can also take proactive measures. For example if a critical service is not running our software monitoring solution will try to restart that service. Of course if our software cannot perform its proactive measure it will send email alerts to our technical staff.

To further enhance this service Elite Network Solutions has added a security scan solution. Our security scan can quickly pinpoint security issues such as missing security patches on Servers and Workstations, discover other security threats such as back door Trojans.

To further enhance this service - priority technical support is given to all critical warnings and our support engineers do respond within minutes to those warnings. If a site visit is required this is also given a priority status in our work cues and a support engineer is dispatched to your location without delay.

 

Our normal response time are as follows:

Nanaimo 30 minutes or less - Other points of Vancouver Island 1 - 2 hours depending on distance. In addition we are fully setup to extend our remote support software as needed.

 

Our monitoring solutions is able to monitor and report on the following server types:

  • Windows 2000 Servers
  • Windows 2003 Servers
  • XP Workstations
  • Red Hat Linux
  • SuSE Linux
  • Mandrake Linux
  • Fedora Linux

 

What can Be Monitored

Our solution provides extensible monitoring checks for many key services such as:

  • Exchange Server 2000 and 2003
  • SQL Server
  • IIS Server
  • ISA Server
  • DNS Server
  • Apache Server
  • Samba Server
  • Pop Servers
  • SMTP Servers
  • Terminal Servers

Just to mention a few!

Our solution can also monitor other server critical items such as:

  • CPU use
  • Hard drive space and state
  • Printer Connections
  • Running Services
  • Network Time Servers
  • Folder Sizes
  • Security Queries, Scans for Missing Patches and other security issues.

If your server is a Windows Based Server our monitoring solution can also be modified to suit your particular monitoring requirements.

 

How Our Service Works

The first step with our service is setting up your network to allow Elite Network Solutions to monitor your servers. This initial setup does require approx one hour and in most cases can be completed remotely. To find out if our monitoring service can work for your network please contact our support engineers techsupport@elitesolutions.info and we will be more then happy to discuss hardware requirements for our remote monitoring solution.

Once your network has been configured to be monitored the next step is adding your servers to our lists and set up the services to be monitored. In addition email alerts can be configured to send to your support staff and our support engineers. Our software solution can even be configured to take corrective measures such as restarting services. All of this happens remotely.

Weekly reports on server status are sent via email Mondays to all clients. These reports can be very detailed and are usually sent in HTML format. An XML format can be sent which would allow these reports to be imported into other applications such as Excel. This would allow performance trends etc to be easily established and tracked over a period of time.

When a server experiences various failures our monitoring software does send emails to all email accounts configured. If Elite Solutions does maintain your technical support one of our support engineers will log into your servers if possible and review and fix as needed. If your server is in a downstate one of our support engineers will be dispatched to your location without delay. Once damage has been reviewed additional support such as Microsoft will be called to help in getting your server up and running as fast as possible.

 

Monitoring Costs

Monitoring costs are based on the following:

  • Existing Client and you are currently on our server support contract this service is included in your contract. All setup fee's are waived.
  • Existing Client no server support contract.
    • Setup fee $50.00 regardless of server count
    • Monthly monitoring costs are by quotation only. All clients will receive weekly HTML Reports, monthly XML Reports in Excel format.

If your interested in this service feel free to contact us for a no obligation price quote. Send your inquiry to info@elitesolutions.info.