Specifications

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Adding a logging server
Ø Captures forensics information
² Why did it crash?
² Who made changes?
Ø Can be linked to other tools
Ø Allows juniors and seniors to
work together
² One session controls, others watch
² A backup administrator can watch the
screen during critical changes, or
during extended service windows.
You can integrate a commercial logging server with your terminal servers.
You can install many logging servers *instead* of terminal servers.
You can find freeware servers, and save some money.
You might be able to program your own in-house…
But ADD SOMETHING! The benefits of these tools are that they will save
you time, help keep your systems on-line, and give you better visibility into
how your devices are operating. They provide mentoring and training
capability in an area where most shops have trouble making the effort to train
staff. They give you the ability to distribute the workload across many staffers,
regardless of their physical locations.
These tools should be in every shop, to help you do more, much more
efficiently, and much more quickly.