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Servers are the keystones of any organisation working with computers, and to ensure productivity, you must make sure there will be the fewest downtimes possible. To have a correct Level of service, one of the first things to do is to elaborate a monitoring plan.

Why server monitoring has to be performed?

This question might sound ridiculous, but it’s important to know the reasons why you should monitor your servers.

First, if you have plans for the future, then you must monitor your servers, monitoring will allow you to know how the present is and where to go.

• Disk Usage: How is you space used and how is it growing over time?
• Memory usage: How is your system memory used? Do you plan to have more users in the future?
• CPU usage: Will you need to upgrade the number of processors installed on the server if your number of users increases?

Monitoring will also allow you to prevent incidents, or at least identify them before your customers do. If you know how is going your server, you might notice a possible failure and take actions before it (for ex: /var nearly full, one of your process is going crazy, etc…).