Network Monitoring

Expand your base support contract with our optional real time monitoring system. You get 24x7x365 alert and notification of any failed in contract device, application or critical network-wide service.

The NorthStar Networks monitoring system provides an intuitive interface into your technology systems from any web browser for both the NorthStar Networks Engineer Services Group and client personnel to access and manage."

Benefits include:

• 24x7x365 monitoring and instant notification of device activity via email or pager
• Unlimited client access to the system from the NorthStar Networks web site.
• Client enabled reporting and trend analysis of critical networked system components.
• View detailed reports to see all activity or an individual's activity so you know exactly what requires your attention.

What you can monitor:

• Total incoming / outgoing traffic by hour
• Busiest traffic types
• Web traffic by content category
• Blocked web content
• Suspicious search-engine queries
• Email sent and received
• Instant messaging conversations
• Logged in users by IP address
• Spam and virus-infected mail blocked
• Top file-sharing uploads / downloads
• Protocol latency
• Virus activity and action taken
• Centralized log events
• PLUS: monitor other servers on the network for IP connectivity, SMTP and HTTP respones from web and mail servers

This service allows NorthStar Networks to "see" your networked systems and monitor all covered aspects BEFORE they overheat, malfunction or cause at best, an expensive situation.

It is basically a way to ensure the integrity of your network-system and it's most critical aspects. Monitoring client systems allows our clients to avoid critical data and hardware loss at a fraction the cost of in-house solutions and provides immediate reaction times from the highly qualified staff at NSN.

In many cases this service has saved clients considerable expense due to repairing and/ or replacing network-system devices which could have been saved.

Our monitoring system is also able to monitor employee habits. Know who is abusing IM priveleges, email, downloading, playing games or any other number of negatively time consuming practices.

Use our contact page and a NSN representative will contact you shortly.