Tips for Managing your Email Servers

By TheEmailAdmin.com Data Center/Servers, email, email management Add a new comment

As an IT administrator you have to make sure your servers are up and running at all times, with email being so critical to the business as users communicate via email for almost everything. You want to make sure you search for a good, easy-to-install monitoring solution. The first question you have to ask yourself is what you really need in monitoring software. To begin with you want to check the health of the system and the performance, check the email traffic and see if there are problems.

You do not want a call from the end users alerting you that a problem has occurred. You want to be a step ahead and by having a system that can alert you of a potential problem would be ideal. You can be alerted either via email, SMS or a mobile device. Another aspect is to minimize the downtime of a server. The software should be able to take corrective action if a potential problem arises. The corrective action can be set on certain criteria that you set up before hand, such as restarting a service or do a server reboot.
Read the rest of this article>>

    Add a comment

    Post a comment using one of these accounts
    Or join now
    At least 6 characters

    Note: Comment will appear soon after you have activated your account.
    Obscene/spam comments will be removed and accounts suspended.
    The information you submit is subject to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

    ITworld LIVE

    Data Center/ServersWhite Papers & Webcasts

    White Paper

    AppAssure vs Backup Exec

    In this new Lab Report, openBench Labs examines AppAssure backup and replication software v4.7 with Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R2. AppAssure implements changed-block tracking technology to provide data protection for both virtual and physical servers in specific OS environments. In contrast, Backup Exec 2010 R2 uses traditional file-based backup to promote compatibility with the largest number of operating systems.

    White Paper

    AppAssure vs Acronis

    In this study of data protection for environments with virtual and physical servers running Windows, openBench Labs tested AppAssure Backup and Replication software v 4.7 and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11. Both solutions utilize block-based technology to unify data protection operations.

    White Paper

    Top 5 Requirements for Backup of Virtual and Physical Servers - Greg Shields, Microsoft MVP

    Reports by leading industry analysts like Gartner, IDC and Concentrated Technology suggest virtual servers in 2011 will eclipse physical servers in total server deployments. The majority of today's business computing environments already have both virtual and physical servers at the same time.

    White Paper

    Guaranteeing 100% Backup Recovery

    The single biggest challenge for IT personnel involved in the data protection process is making sure that their backups are recoverable every time. Management and users won't remember the ninety-nine successful recoveries but they will always remember the one failure.

    White Paper

    Lab Report - Optimizing VM Backup for VMware and Hyper-V

    Data centers are becoming more difficult to manage and protect as more data and applications are moved into virtual environments. Adding fuel to the fire, CIOs must now deal with corporate mandates to build an IT infrastructure that scales to unknown demand levels and provides service assurance for fluctuating conditions that cannot be accurately projected. The solution is a transition to a private cloud characterized by a hypervisor-independent Virtual Infrastructure (VI).

    See more White Papers | Webcasts

    Ask a question

    Ask a Question