Servers are at the core of your business, so in order to ensure your servers are operating at peak performance, you need to do healthy network. Checklist of Best Practices for Server Environment:
Patches – prevent poor performance or system crashes
Preventative maintenance: Preventing maintenance from Navigator System AMC Contract ensures servers are always running at the highest level.
Server reboots: Help prevent crashes.
Diagnostics: Help detect failing hardware components and potential data corruption in future.
Backups: Backup of data should be completed regularly. This ensures the data can easily be recovered should a server fail.
Security – your critical data is safe from hackers
Antivirus: Programs will be barrier against viruses that destroy important files or disable critical systems.
Firewall(s): To prevent unauthorized users and helps monitor network activity for suspicious behavior.
Tight permissions: Limit control of what your employees have access to. Loose permissions makes it easier for hackers.
Password changes: Password should change regularly and should not include easy passwords.
Monitoring – Server health will help detect and correct small problems quickly
CPU/memory utilization: Lets you monitor how much server processor and memory are being used, avoiding a crash due to lack of processor or memory.
Disk utilization: Insight required as to the amount of disk space being used.
Process monitoring: All critical system processes are running.
Back-up monitoring: Yes. Periodic backups are monitoring provides peace of mind.
Antivirus monitoring: Always verify whether antivirus software is running properly and any virus has been eliminated.
Log monitoring: Identify your system is generating error messages or warning messages regularly.
Alerts: Ensure the right contact is being alerted immediately should an issue arise.
Data continuity –A plan in place to get back your server and business up and running again in as little time as possible when the unthinkable happen
Reliable back-ups: Both external hard drives and the cloud, making it easy to backup data on a continual basis.
Essential information: Book keeping record of what data is backed up and where it is stored.
Hardware recovery: Plans should include a backup server should a server crash.
Off-site storage: Data continuity plan should be stored in a secure off-site location.
Expert help –Navigator System understands of what is needed to maintain a healthy network by getting essential information from an IT professional
Stay Updated: The latest technology without getting caught up in short-term fads.
Manage and maintain server(s): With the help of Navigator System IT expert, allowing you to focus on growing your business.
Adapt to change: By ensuring that as your business grows, your system and servers should do the same rhythm.
Employee training: Employees should know how to implement the latest hardware and software.
Does your server environment have a clean chit of health or is it in the need of a free health checkup?
Contact Navigator System representative today at 9986288377 or visit www.navigatorsystem.com and we help you to have healthy server environment.