Due to the fast pace of growth in most enterprise environments and the demands placed on support staff, organisations can all too quickly find themselves losing a clear picture of the environment they support.
Decisions can be made without a full understanding of the “big picture”. Immediate operational requirements can cause organisations to lose site of the direction in which the network environment is progressing.
3net’s Network Audit service offering can hand back the control to support operations by giving a clear picture of the environments that they support. Experienced consultants will spend time detailing every aspect of your environment from the physical infrastructure and cabling, through to network traffic analysis and trending. 3net’s Network Audit, coupled with it’s documentation service delivers a clear and accurate understanding of an organisation's network enabling dynamic support of the business.
3net Audit Consultants will endeavour to advise on the best working practices to help maintain Network Documentation in accordance with your organisations existing procedures.
The audit is designed to provide local network support staff with the information they require to carry out their job in a professional and confident manner, and also protect your organisation against staff movement.
Process
- Audit - Experienced consultants will spend time detailing the entire environment, including individual device configurations, through a process of detailed technical investigations and interviews. 3net will extract all locally held knowledge and bring together all areas of your environment in order to deliver a complete picture of the network infrastructure
- Consolidation - 3net will take the information gathered from the audit phase and use its expertise to fully understand the client environment. From this consolidation phase recommendations can be made relating to the status of the network, remedial efforts required and general support of the client infrastructure
- Documentation - A clear and concise documentation set is then produced detailing the entire network infrastructure and recommendations of the 3net audit team based on best working practices. This gives the client a valuable information base to enhance the support of its business and build the foundations for a resilient infrastructure. Based on this information 3net can advise on a change management strategy to update, apply, and develop the information base
Features
- Detailed technical Investigations and Interviews
- Consolidation and Brain Storming
- Full Technical commentary
- Network Infrastructure Diagrammatic representation (Physical & Logical)
- Network Topology and addressing details
- Network Device Configurations
- Detailed Protocol & Traffic Analysis
- Network Service Analysis (i.e. Server connectivity and application performance)
- Network related working practices including change management procedures
- Network Security and Management
- Existing network maintenance arrangements
- Identification of issues/points of concern based on the organisation's objectives, best working practices, and 3net's extensive network experience
Benefits
- An accurate audit by experienced consultants
- Intellectual investment in your own network infrastructure in a format that can be easily maintained and transferred
- Recommendations based on organisational objectives and industry best working practices
- Clear understanding of your entire network infrastructure
- Baseline from which to move forward
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