Features and Benefits of Subscribing to RouterDog Services

• At RouterDog we believe Computers should work for people and notifiy us of a problem rather then us always scrambling for them at the worst times.Through research and development in Internet based network monitoring that works for people not computers. Proportal LLC has developed RouterDog, a new service that provides feature rich network alerting and statistics monitoring whilst delivering new levels of affordability. Through a subscription based pricing model, RouterDog can be inexpensively deployed in any organization regardless of size.
  
  
• With today's increasing pressure for uptime guarantees and downtime penalties, RouterDog could save you thousands of dollars. And with RouterDog, you'll have ironclad third party verification of your historical and current quality levels.
       If you are like most businesses, Internet connectivity has become an integral part of your day-to-day operations. RouterDog services allow you to intelligently manage your Internet connectivity. Even if you are currently monitoring your internal network, RouterDog services can add value by monitoring your edge devices from outside your network. Internet bandwidth is usually the smallest pipe on the network and must be managed closely.
  
  
• At work, home, or play, you'll know all is well by the silence of your pager or E-mail. And if a problem does occur at your server, ISP, or local network, you'll have the facts to zero in on the solution with lightning speed from anywhere in the world.
  
  
• Because RouterDog is a fully independent, end-to-end monitoring solution with 4 independent networks all monitoring the same devices, you will always know how your network looks from the outside in. With RouterDog's view from multiple autonomous networks, and its supplemental diagnostic data, you can be confident in the validity of its reports and alerts.
       Consultants, who may have overall management responsibility for many different Web sites in different locations, can now monitor all of them 24 hours a day and respond immediately to problems. Impress your clients with your ability to always be on top of the situation!
  
  
• Availability of your Internet or Intranet servers and routers to trend problems before your customers see them. Historical performance of servers and routers to judge lead times and budget for new equipment.
  
  
• No need to buy a high-end server for network monitoring software No need to dedicate resources to learning and managing complicated new software.
  
  
• Network management is not a job that ends at 6pm each day and takes the weekends off. There is always an employee trying to work or a customer trying to reach your web site. You need to know the status of your network all the time.
  
  
• RouterDog is the cost-effective solution that gives you all these capabilities and the ability to make intelligent decisions about your network.
  
  
• A graphical view of current and past performance and utilization Immediate notification when a monitored device experiences difficulty Access to all information via a web browser on any computer connected to the Internet.
  
  
• Is your web site being hosted by a third party?
       RouterDog can still monitor your web site and notify you immediately if
  your site becomes unavailable. This will allow you to know if you’re getting the service you paid for.
  
  
• Performance statistics are from your customers view because we are monitoring from the Internet.
  
  
• Loss of connectivity notification when your ISP has routing problems not just hardware problems.
       -You can view your network information from a web browser on any computer great when traveling.
       -Your department can monitor its own Internet bandwidth independently of other systems.
       -It shows you, hour by hour, or minute by minute how long it takes your Web server to respond to requests. We also inform you when major errors are encountered, such as pages not found, servers not responding, or Internet routing errors and notify you when it is working properly again.
  
  
• If RouterDog receives no response from your Web server you will be notified immediately by e-mail, fax or SMS message (if you have requested this service). The fault will also be logged in your Daily. Monthly text and graphical web reports.
  
  
• Network monitoring costs - Luxury or necessity?
       Although different for every organization, the cost of downtime can range from $1000 - $100,000 per hour. Despite this, many companies depend on casual support and reactive service contracts alone to defend against network downtime. Although critical in resolving a problem, these services are only valuable once a fault has been discovered and reported. By reducing the time between a problem occurring and fault resolution beginning, significant downtime costs can be reduced and in some cases completely avoided.
       Reducing the 'time to discovery' of a network fault is achieved through pro-active monitoring of the network with the help of a network monitoring system (NMS). This system is chartered with the task of constantly assessing and recording the state of the network and alerting support personnel if a fault is detected. Systems of this type are proving invaluable to many organizations in delivered greater uptime to network users and in turn increasing organizational productivity. The true costs of network monitoring.
       While the benefits of network monitoring system cannot be denied, the cost of these systems leaves many organizations with no choice but to persist with reactive network support and wear the downtime costs. An example of the costs involved in a typical NMS installation are tabled below:
  
  

  Year 1
  Network Management System software	$50,000
  RISC based H/W platform & O/S	$30,000
  NMS support contract	$10,000
  RISC H/W & S/W support contract	$5,000
  Additional proprietary client software	$10,000
  TOTAL	$105,000
  Ongoing
  NMS support contract	$10,000
  RISC H/W & S/W support contract	$5,000
  NMS staff (each)	$100,000
  TOTAL	$115,000

  
  Network management outsourcing - Not for everyone.
       Faced with the costs above, network managers are left with a simple choice. Use inferior monitoring software that is proprietary and 'blinkered' towards a particular vendors product, or outsource the management of their network to a suitable provider (usually at high cost). For some organizations, this option is satisfactory and all is well. Other organizations, however, have support personnel capable of performing network fault resolution internally. The challenge for these companies is to provide monitoring technology to their network support personnel without compromising on functionality or outlaying exorbitant cash.
  
  So what's the answer?
       Through research and development in Internet based network monitoring technology, Proportal LLC has developed RouterDog, a new service that provides feature rich network alerting and statistics monitoring whilst delivering new levels of affordability. Through a subscription based pricing model, RouterDog can be inexpensively deployed in any organization regardless of size.
       Service level agreements (SLAs) between Internet service providers and their users are a fact of life and now they are becoming increasingly common between IT organizations and the business units they serve. While some may consider service level agreements a burden, many see them as a way to bring positive attention to their performance and an opportunity to increase revenues. These people have found RouterDog to be the perfect tool for service level monitoring.
       RouterDog can provide your organization with advanced alerting of network faults, statistical benchmarking tools, regular reporting and distributed support mechanisms in a service package that is maintenance free and inexpensive. Service setup is quick and unobtrusive, so you can begin reaping the benefits of pro-active enterprise network monitoring with a minimum of effort.