inexpensive DSL/Broadband to the data center as an 'emergency' supplemental circuit is pretty affordable in most cases and comes in handy many times, out of band of revenue dependent main circuits.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Eric Brouwer <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I used to be part of the old Lyris/Sunbelt community, but I have been out > of IT administration for several years. I was a PM in that time, and just > recently came back to IT. > > A situation arose this weekend where I could use your advice. We use > SolarWinds for network, server, and application monitoring, and it works > very well for us. Our core switch went down this weekend, severing all > external communications, so SolarWinds could not send alerts to external > resources. Do you use any kind of remote external monitoring that would > send an alert if communications go down? > > Thank you! > > Eric >
