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Network maintenance checklist What to look for and why

Most companies rely on networks. Some are comfortable with local storage and others are more suited to cloud based storage applications. Other businesses employ much more sophisticated uses for the networks they employ. Hosting, remote desktop applications, computer tasking that is specialised to the individual business and video rendering.

Technician preparing check list in server room

Whatever you may use your networking for when your business relies on its networking and servers it is critical to schedule a regular network maintenance checkup.

What does a check up look like?

  • Check for critical operating systems vulnerabilities.
  • Performing/monitoring diagnostics on the critical components.
  • Examining disc usage.
  • Checking for any hardware errors or noisy fans.
  • Taking a deep dive into the network’s security and updating network security software and hardware.
  • Audit and ensure that regular backup’s are being performed routinely.
  • Check the validity of the backups.
  • Check redundant components for functionality.

Keeping your servers properly maintained is an essential function of your networking infrastructure. There are a myriad of potential issues that can arise and any of them exposes your business to the prospect of downtime at the very least and can lead to a catastrophic level failure that may not be recoverable.

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Prevention is better than cure

Networks and servers are not an “out of sight out of mind – set and forget” device.

If your business does experience a failure in its networking and server system it may well be too late to intervene and cripplingly costly to rectify. Prevention is a better option than cure and implementing routines and audit into your network and server health check is a great place to start. Examining strategies to prevent data loss, securing your system against infection from computer viruses and ensuring the power supply is robust, operating without supply errors that may result in data losses are highly recommended.

Annual or even more frequent maintenance check ups means you will be less vulnerable. You will be more likely to identify potential errors and risk early, especially in the hardware. Identify shortfalls in critical component redundancies and the impact on your business. Installing upgraded and newer hardware components ensures improved reliability to keep your business running efficiently and effectively.

OSA employs Australia’s leading and most sophisticated network project staging laboratory. Working from a purpose built R&D facility, our skilled networking engineers build and configure networking solutions, complete comprehensive testing, eliminate faults and implement customisations to our clients particular requirements. This capability gives our clients a thorough working knowledge and experience of their network prior to delivery and site installation.

Our laboratory includes a fully secure customer service portal where our engineers can access clients networks and apply remedial actions if needed. In the current climate of COVID-19 travel restrictions this capability is highly advantageous. Mitigating potential large scale risk, cost savings and an ability to action urgent issues before they escalate. OSA is a leader in the network engineering industry and our investment in this space is unparalleled.

The OSA R&D laboratory not only provides a secure customer service response facility, its unique function to build, test, configure and supply any sized network for a plug and play outcome enables our clients a low risk solution that is designed and engineered for maximum capability of their specific requirements.

Here at OSA, we can help determine exactly what your business networking requirements need to be working at its optimum level whilst mitigating risk. When you are ready to upgrade your system or simply need some advice contact us today for a no obligation chat.

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