Uptime Monitoring: How to Ensure Network Device Uptime

In today's digital age, businesses are expected to maintain their network uptime at all times.Network uptime refers to the time span during which the network is active and functioning effectively.

It is critical for any business to have a robust IT network that ensures that IT infrastructure components are constantly up and running efficiently.This can be ensured by monitoring the uptime and availability of critical components across network infrastructure such as routers, servers and firewalls using various protocols such as SNMP, WMI, TCP and ICMP.

Why uptime monitoring is important

There are few situations worse than experiencing network downtime.The cost of downtime per hour has continued to increase over the past 5 to 7 years, and businesses can cost as much as $5 million per hour of downtime.

While it is impossible to experience 100% uptime, even 0.1% downtime, which is 99.999% uptime, can result in some loss.For example, a large network will contain various devices and interfaces, making it impossible to manually monitor the availability and performance of all network components.The challenge only increases when monitoring equipment is distributed across multiple remote sites around the world.

The challenge of monitoring network uptime

Early in planning, considering the number of devices that need to monitor uptime, the uptime for managing and monitoring the network isA major challenge, often deploying a well-trained technical team to maintain the entire network.

Let's look at the challenges of monitoring network infrastructure uptime:

• Dealing with network scalability factors
• Prioritize key issues
• Balance service level agreement (SLA) and reduce mean time to repair (MTTR)
• Excellent network visibility
• Dealing with network scalability factors

As a business grows, its IT infrastructure grows exponentially.Typically, enterprise networks include many types of equipment from different vendors.Monitoring the uptime of all available devices in a network is a lot of work, but the task is critical.The number of critical devices in a corporate network shows how complex it is to maintain their uptime.

Prioritize key issues

Threshold-based alerting is critical to monitoring and avoiding network downtime.However, if the parent device fails or the server goes down, you will be trapped in a loop of alerts.A repository of alerts not only hinders your ability to identify problems, but also delays recovery.
For such situations, however, there are solutions that include extensive, proactive monitoring, identification of critical alerts, and delivery of alerts through appropriate channels to the right stakeholders for immediate action.

Balance SLA and reduce MTTR

Critical equipment must be monitored for poor performance and network outages.MTTR is a parameter that monitors system availability.Businesses can use MTTR to support SLAs.SLA can be used to measure the availability of network equipment.To improve network availability, you should monitor the availability of network equipment.Once a fault is detected, it will actively alert.You can use IT service management tools such as ServiceNow and ServiceDesk Plus to document availability issues,And quickly resolve these issues before the network goes down.

Excellent network visibility

You should understand all network components working in the network.Visibility across the network helps you identify problems at their early stages and eliminate them before they affect end users, creating a stable network.

Monitor uptime with OpManager

OpManager is a dynamic network monitoring software that provides real-time network monitoring to help you understand the availability and performance of network devices.Any delay or failure in identifying network vulnerabilities can result in catastrophic downtime and cost thousands of dollars.OpMangaer's uptime monitoring capabilities help eliminate this IT pain point.

OpManager provides:

• Proactively monitor the internal health of your network using regular preventive maintenance measures to help you reduce equipment failures.
• Scheduled health reports to help you stay informed about the health of various infrastructure components in your network.
• Color-coded runtime graphs help you keep abreast of the availability of all devices on your network.