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MCS and Nagios Make IT Work Better

As technology expands, the need to monitor it increases as well. They say that knowing is half the battle, but we say, “Why should knowing be a battle?” Nagios Enterprises offers a full suite of powerful IT management solutions that make IT work better.  Nagios XI, Nagios Log Server, and Nagios Network Analyzer give admins the tools to detect future failures and act before it impacts your organization.

Let’s say your company email goes down on a Saturday afternoon. When Monday morning rolls around the service has been down for more than a day and a crisis sets in. The email server has run out of space and no one is able to send or receive email. Feeling pressure from all sides, the admin frantically frees disk space to bring services back to life.  The unplanned outage causes the company lost productivity and hurts customer relations.  Management is upset and the admin looks bad.

Using monitoring solutions from Nagios Enterprises and MCS, the admins would have known weeks before the issue occurred and could have proactively resolved the problem. Using trend data and alerting from Nagios products, admins can stay on top of potential issues.  A little advanced warning helps admins prevent IT problems.

For more than 15 years, MCS has been a leading provider of IT consulting services and Nagios XI is our preferred monitoring solution.  To be effective, monitoring software must be able to monitor a wide variety of devices, systems, and software.  The goal is to have a single solution that monitors all critical IT components.  This provides IT staff with a unified suite of tools to ease monitoring of the enterprise.

Nagios uses a system of plugins to allow monitoring of virtually any device that connects to a network.  Nagios monitors common infrastructure devices such as routers, switches, wireless equipment, and servers.  In addition, Nagios monitors less common items like environmental conditions, power devices, business processes, web applications, and manufacturing systems. The power of plugins allows Nagios to monitor almost anything on the planet.  Using both open plugins from Nagios and custom developed plugins from MCS, we monitor everything.

MCS is a Featured Nagios Reseller with knowledgeable Nagios professionals on staff.  MCS provides competitive pricing on Nagios licenses and renewals, as well as professional planning, setup, and implementation services.  Our team of Nagios professionals provides kick-start, implementation, and managed Nagios services customized to fit your organization’s needs.

Contact MCS today for a free consultation and case studies that show how MCS and Nagios make IT work better.

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MCS Upgrades Partnership with Digium

We have officially upgraded our partner level with Digium, the pioneers in the VoIP market. For years, MCS has used Digium equipment in our VoIP phone systems to bridge the gap between SIP and legacy telephone technologies. Digium also offers a complete PBX solution based on Asterisk called Switchvox. Switchvox phone systems offer every feature available for a business PBX at no extra cost so companies will not be limited on productivity. Switchvox offers a simple, easy to manage system that can tightly integrate with Digium branded phones or Polycom VoIP phones.

MCS employs several, full-time Digium certified professionals with concentrations in sales and complete system integration. We are now able to offer features like Unified Messaging, Easy Call Recording, and CRM Integration to our customers. MCS offers Switchvox as an on-site solution or hosted in the cloud with no hardware to purchase or maintain. We are very excited to expand our partnership with such a great company and look forward to better serving our customers with the full line of Digium powered communication solutions.

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