Server management and monitoring
Before understanding the concept of Server Management, let's discuss the server. The server is what? It is a device or a computer that manage network resources. It is the computer which is designed to process requests and also deliver data to the client computers over the local network or on the internet. The network servers are generally configured with the memory, further processing and handle loads of servicing patrons. Servers are physically like other computers where their hardware arrangement is specifically optimized to make them most suitable for their role.
In many servers, the hardware installed is equal to the hardware of any other normal computer but in the case of the software, the software installed is totally different from the software of another computer. To improve the capacity to handle other computers and client the storage capacity, additional processing, and the memory are configured on the network servers.
Some basic types of network servers comprise as:
● online game servers
● web servers.
● FTP servers
● proxy servers
Server networking model- It is a model which is used by the number of systems unitedly with the websites and email services. A substitute model tends to make all machines works like client and servers parallelly. I am going to give you some examples so that you can easily understand a server.
Name servers which give information about internet host names,
Secondly are the FTP servers with which help you can easily hold the FTP sites and also help you to provide the data which the user may requests.
Mail servers are responsible for delivering e-mails and the web servers are committed to sending the web pages which consists of the list of servers to manage the mailing lists.
Application Servers
Application servers are the main servers in the computer empire between the end user and the database server, usually here the servers are connected to two.They are also referred as Middleware where middleware is the software which helps to establish a connection between two separate applications. All the products of middleware can link the database server to the web server. A number of middleware products can link a database system to a Web server. It allows the users to request data from database by the cooperation of those forms that are presented on a Web browser and based on the user's profile and appeal, which allows the web server to return the web pages dynamically.
List Servers
To improve the management of mailing lists, list servers are used regardless of what is a there type. Whether they are interactive debates open to the public or one-way lists that deliver newsletters, announcements or advertising.
Chat Servers
This server permits a number of people to experience information in the environment of an internet newsgroup that offer real-time discussion capabilities. It is used to relate to a number of different characteristics of the computer. To instantly respond to the input real-time operating systems are used.
IRC Servers
Internet Relay Chat is composed of various autonomous networks of servers that allow users to attach to each other via an IRC network. It is an option for those who are seeking real-time competence.
Fax Servers
Those organizations that want to reduce the incoming and outgoing telephone sources. The fax server is an excellent solution. But still, there is a need to fix the actual document.
Server Management- It has no particular definition that has been admitted as the ideal definition which embraces all its aspects but to elucidate it we define server management as the monitoring and maintenance of the web servers. This definition further covers two subsets which are maintenance and monitoring, out of which the maintenance ensuring that every software and hardware worked properly and run with its most favorable capabilities, on the other hand, the monitoring manages the each and every parameter which affects the performance of a server. To monitor the server, there are some systems like Monitance which can help you to monitor those metrics for the smooth maintenance strategy.
There are some other factors which can be used to monitor the server accurately which are as follows:
Server Setup- The service provider setting up your server using the available technical documents. The service follows some steps for the setup which are:
The Initial Server Setup- In this, the required set-up files are unzipped and running those file through the selected web host platform.
Installation and Configuration- With the help of user guide and expertise install the features and tools for your control panel.
Firewall installation- This utility is used to provide the security for your server, it is also the part of an installation.
Anti-spam and antivirus installations- These are also installed after installing the firewall for the security purpose.
Mail Server Setup- As the name defines it is used to set up the email accounts on your server.
DNS settings and configuration
Server Monitoring
As we discussed earlier, monitoring helps to check the operations which affect the performance of your server, so there should be an accurate monitoring system for the optimal performance of the server. There are some steps which can be followed to simplify the task of monitoring your servers like the downtime notifications, uptime notifications, and security status and storage allocations.
Security
There exist a huge number of viruses which can easily break the security and affects your personal data. The security gaps can lead to the breaching of your important data that directly have the negative impact on your business.
So, your next step should be to protect your server by:
Uniting periodic security scrutiny’s and
Carrying out the essential security, kernel, and software updates.
At the end, there are some preventive measures which can help you to secure your server which are:
Nothing is perfect and time to time your servers can be affected negatively by the viral attacks or may be crash also, due to this, it is important that every server should install precautionary measures such as launching:
● A server backup and recovery process
● Server movement measures
● Disaster Restoration and Software support.
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