Network Maintenance

Network Maintenance Plan To address the need for a systemized method for managing and maintaining network Main areas of concern Lack of proper asset tracking method coupled with an outdated inventory Poor network monitoring Lack of proper methods of control over software licensing Solutions for Managing and Maintaining Network Installation of a software for tracking IT assets and updating the inventory installation of proper network monitoring tools Devising proper method of documenting , tracking and updating software licenses

Asset Tracking Most companies have 12 percent extra hardware assets unknowingly (Techtrack

, 2007 Unnecessary expenditure is incurred on new equipments There is need to repurpose idle and underused hardware assets by use of software such as DataHarvestTM (Techtrack , 2007 Summary For efficiency of the running of the company as well as successful expansion , the following areas should be addressed Proper method of record tracking should be employed and inventory records updated regularly Installation of advanced software for network monitoring to ensure efficient network responses and outages Software licenses should be kept up-to-date by use of proper method for identifying and tracking all software used in the company system

References Techtrack (2007 . Utilizing assets effectively . Retrieved July 16 2010 from : http /www .techtrack .com /effective-asset-utilization Windley ,

(2010 . Managing IT Assets . Retrieved July 17 , 2010 , from http /www .windley .com /docs /Asset 20Management .pdf Compass...