Naverisk – our answer to the question you never asked.

by [Profile] | Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

About 3 months back we departed down a bumpy road to find the best system to monitor client, and our own, infrastructure. We struck serveral dead ends quickly.
However one product stood out, unfortunately it wasn’t one of the many free ones. Naverisk is by far the most powerful and economical answer to almost every IT administrators head aches.
Setup was almost pain free, 2 VMs on our cluster – IIS7.5 front end and SQL Enterprise 2010 backend.
Once deployed, the first thing that got me was the ease of navigation. Everything is so logical.
Agent deployment is a simple 1 executable file – pain free again – and then with just 4 ports opened in the most restrictive firewalls we are away. Under almost every tested scenario the agent immediately hooked into the console, didnt even require a refresh.
Lets talk features. First of all we can enable clients as users of the system so they can access the entire Naverisk console any time of any day. The system takes full historical logging for performance and event logs so even weeks back if a client were to complain of poor exchange server performance we can immediatly diagnose the resource shortage. It also provides live performance stats.
As soon as the agent connects it inventories the devices hardware and software and has plenty of user customizable fields for asset management.
Every admin wants to be able to remote access into every PC or server under managent, Naverisk enables you to deploy the remote access module remotely in seconds. You get 5 options for remote access based of RDP and VNC.
You can perform almost any task remotely without logging into a single PC, want reboot a group of servers? Tick their boxes and pull the trigger – it’s done.
Patching is a dream, windows updates become integrated. It makes SLA targets super easy.
There is a remote device file browse facility or perhaps you want to test DNS at a remote location – just use the console built into the web interface to ping google.com.au – without logging into the device.
I cannot begin to estimate the time Naverisk is saving us, a direct dollar saving to all our clients.

If you are in the market systems administration packages, this is a must look at.

Tom Berryman


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