The most recent economic downstream has forced many companies world-wide to downsize their organizations and, as a result, rely more on IT solutions to increase employee productivity. All of this has put tremendous pressure on continuous availability of all critical business application and functions.

Achieving network and system availability of 99.999% was considered perfection nowadays. In order to ensure 100% system availability, it is not to just reduce the problem resolution time. Instead, company needs to prevent problems from occurring in the first place.

By using the Power@Monitoring, it is easily to perform network monitoring, notification, and reporting features. Network and application administrators are alerted when there are network problems. Using data from Power@Monitoring, they can regularly assess the health of their systems and network and take proactive measures before any catastrophic crashes occur.

When you think about network monitoring/management solutions, HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli are two solutions that come to mind quickly. However, these kind of solution are complex and cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, depending on the size of your enterprise; and can take an age to implement.

Power@Monitoring Services is a value-packed solution that offer the essential functionality network management at the lower price range, which includes a service agreement. When you factor in the minimal hardware and training costs, you are dealing with a solution in the thousand-price range. With Power@Monitoring, you will achieve a low total cost of ownership.

One of the largest obstacles in deploying a network monitoring/management solution is its long implementation period. IT organizations and resources are already stretched across many high-priority projects. Having to spend months and, sometimes, years to implement a network monitoring/management solution and to train network administrators is not acceptable.

However, the easy-to-use and simple-to-install Power@Monitoring has a very short implementation period. Our customers have been able to install the solution, scan and map their network, set up notification, and start monitoring their network within a matter of a few hours. Robust reporting and notification features can be implemented within a week. The power of a network monitoring/management tool is the rich information it can provide you to run your business. The faster it is up and running the sooner you are able to stop managing your network blindfolded.

With organizational budgets being cut, IT departments should focus on network monitoring/management projects that result in shorter mean-time-to-value or return-on-investment (ROI).

On average, one network outage can cost one-day revenue to loss. This cost includes network administrator time, lost revenue from unavailable order processing system, lowered employee productivity, and/or lost of goodwill from company stakeholders. With Power@Monitoring , you can low the total cost of ownership and short implementation period, you can achieve ROI within months, not years like other complicated, expensive network management solutions.

It has always been difficult to identify the root cause of a network problem. Network administrators have often been unaware of a problem in the network until the end-users call the network administrators to complain about slow response or no response from the network. So, the end result is customer dissatisfaction (Internal / External customer).

Simply, there are just too many network variables for the administrators to rely on. With Power@Monitoring, the network administrators can quickly identify the problem. For example, Power@Monitoring robust monitoring checks device availability down to the interface level. When a particular port on a router goes down, Power@Monitoring pinpoints the problem interface while some other tools show the entire router being unavailable. With this robustness, network administrators can get right to solving the problem, not wasting time trying to locate the problem. In another example, network administrators can use Power@Monitoring to monitor system resources and overall load on the network. The resultant information can be used to make informed and cost-effective capacity planning decisions.

It is inevitable that a router or an entire subnet goes down when the network administrator steps away from his desk. If he has a robust network monitoring solution, he will receive an alert via his pager, SMS, etc. However, he still may need to quickly return to his desktop console to obtain more information about the network problem or to fix it. With Power@Monitoring integrated notification and web access features, the network administrator can initiate a browser session from any PC to access virtually all of Power@Monitoring functionality. This allows the administrator to save precious minutes or hours in bringing the network device up again.

Power@Monitoring web access is even more vital to an organization that wants 24x7 system uptime but cannot afford the investment in a 24x7 network staff. With web access, when a system alert occurs in the middle of the night, the network administrator can logon to Power@Monitoring and diagnose the system problem without having to travel into the office, making his job easier. Consequently, the company receives the benefit of 24x7 system uptime while only paying network administration staff when they do have to work.