Is a Remote Management Solution Right for You?
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Four Key Tasks to Consider to Help Make the Right Decision
If you have IT equipment in multiple distributed locations, but don't have IT staff at every site, it may be worthwhile to consider a remote management solution. A remote management solution offers many potential benefits including:
- Reduced operational expenses
- Improved service levels
- Enhanced security and regulatory compliance
So what is the key to success when considering the deployment of a remote management solution? Think about the management tasks that benefit the most from proximity. While remote management can apply to a variety of infrastructure components, to maximize its impact, concentrate on network infrastructure to ensure performance and availability as well as the capability for centralized management tools to connect to servers, switches, routers and other infrastructure.
So what are the tasks best suited for remote management? Remote management excels at the following tasks:
1. Specific network configuration and change management tasks
- Automating initial configuration of newly deployed IT devices
- Implementing configuration changes
- Change tracking and auditing
- Automated Router Recovery when configuration files get corrupted
2. Particular network performance and availability jobs
- Device monitoring
- User experience simulation
- Run book automation
3. Network security management from an auditing perspective
4. Secure out-of-band access
By taking advantage of a remote management solution to handle these tasks, your organization can reduce costs, improve service levels and increase security. If a remote management solution makes sense for your environment, consider the Mercury appliance that enables IT staff to perform administration, maintenance, and recovery tasks on switches, routers, and other equipment from a central location using a single interface. If you have any questions, contact us at: info@kratosnetworks.com.
