asked on Outsourcing server monitoring and management
I work in a mid-sized non-profit (around 100 employees). Earlier this month my network admin left and I'm trying to evaluate the advantage of outsourcing the server monitoring and management. I'm keeping sys admin functions in house (e.g., AD adds, deletes, changes, permissions, email). I'm looking for someone to monitor the logs and keep the servers patched and updated. In addition, I would look to this company for consulting on any new configs and break/fix.
The quotes I'm getting are all over the place. Most have a low monthly recurring for monitoring and then scalable blocks of time to cover the updates/patches/break/fix/
Finally, my question: how many hours is reasonable for monitoring a hyperV environment on Server 2012R2. We have one SAN, two hosts, 10 virtual servers, 1 backup appliance and an external AD/system center. Assuming nothing breaks, what is a reasonable amount of hours per month/week/day/whatever to monitor this?
Any advice you can offer would be GREATLY appreciated!
The quotes I'm getting are all over the place. Most have a low monthly recurring for monitoring and then scalable blocks of time to cover the updates/patches/break/fix/
Finally, my question: how many hours is reasonable for monitoring a hyperV environment on Server 2012R2. We have one SAN, two hosts, 10 virtual servers, 1 backup appliance and an external AD/system center. Assuming nothing breaks, what is a reasonable amount of hours per month/week/day/whatever to monitor this?
Any advice you can offer would be GREATLY appreciated!
Windows Server 2012Hyper-V
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Terri Alekzander
Do you have a ticketing system?
Most MSP would like to see your last 6 months alerts and tickets before giving a firm estimate.
Most MSP would like to see your last 6 months alerts and tickets before giving a firm estimate.
ASKER
We don't have a ticketing system for the network just end user help desk.
ASKER
I'm not asking about pricing at this point. I only want to know if it takes 10 - 15 hours a month or 1-2 hours a month or 30 -40 hours a month to just monitor servers. I need to be able to figure out how many extra hours I need beyond the monitoring and I can't get a straight answer on how much time it takes to look at logs every day. All the potential vendors will be installing monitoring software.
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The second paragraph is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
That sounds comparable to most businesses.
Finally, my question: how many hours is reasonable for monitoring a hyperV environment on Server 2012R2. We have one SAN, two hosts, 10 virtual servers, 1 backup appliance and an external AD/system center. Assuming nothing breaks, what is a reasonable amount of hours per month/week/day/whatever to monitor this?
Without a site assessment this is hard to determine. pricing is something that is highly variable. You can pay a low rate/hour for a journeyman technician which will probably spend more time than an expert that will charge more/hour but get the job done in significantly less time with little or no trial and error. Monitoring normally requires monitoring agents to be installed A great deal of what may influence a price is the current state of the hardware/software involved. and the current policies in effect.