Keep calm and standardize - Checks

The word that we love and fear.

By: Brian C Teasley

Part 2

We all know that standardizing our IT practices makes us more efficient and profitable.  However creating those standards can be a rather daunting task.

Let's focus on the basics of check management.

Every machine you install will automatically detect and create checks. And this is a great thing!  If only every machine wasn't set to different check thresholds.

Let's look at how we can make these changes effectively.

Give me a break...

By: Ernest Byrd

     Performance Monitoring Checks are essential for understanding the Health of the Servers in your Client's environment.  But what do you do when you want to quiet the Alerts down for a little bit?  Maybe for that routine Backup that you know occurs every week night.  

Does this look familiar?

If it does, then you have discovered the option to pause communication for the GFI MAX Advanced Monitoring Agent.  That is great, but can be quite time consuming when you have to do this manually for each Server Agent.  Let me tell you a story of a way to reduce some Alert noise and place your Agent into "Maintenance Mode".