Performance of routine audits and maintenance of hardware and software

IT routine audits and maintenance tasks planning

Administrators should plan and perform daily technical checkups of hardware. These tasks are routine, so are regulated by certain procedure. VIP Task Manager is groupware product which allows IT specialists to schedule and mark out their routine operations and procedures which are related to IT infrastructure maintenance and audits. For this purpose system administrator can create recurrence tasks which should be done every day at certain time and set pop-up sound reminders for these tasks. When the checkup will be done the system administrator will change task status to "complete", can add some notes if required to special section of the task and attach checkup report directly to task. IT specialists are able to plan their tasks by date, time and duration, set priority, order and use Scheduler (Calendar) mode to see the workloads for day, week or month.

IT routine audits and maintenance tasks tracking

The senior administrator should control the execution of routine tasks, be aware if any issues appear and keep the registration of tasks performed. The senior system administrator can plan tasks for subordinates, give instructions and control the work performance for IT system administrative team - get immediate notifications about completion of certain tasks and get acquainted with work results (reports attached to task - files, links, notes).VIP Task Manager is customizable and flexible groupware with access rights management, so each internal team (administrators, developers etc.) within IT department can work confidentially and safely and even do not know about tasks of each other, or contrary - easily share common projects.

IT routine audits and maintenance tasks reporting

With applying operating system and software updates, patches, and configuration changes, performing backups and restores, hardware monitoring and troubleshooting, system administrators should make reports and store them. Most reports are generated by special professional software and can be stored as files of different formats. After some checkup is done, the report can be attached to task, so IT specialist can easily find and open it next time. Besides system administrators can attach hyperlinks to files that are stored within the LAN in shared folder, for example user can set path to some system log that is placed on any computer within LAN and open it any time by one click on hyperlink. VIP Task Manager allows making printable reports and building charts to assess the state of work performance, to see volumes of work done and to learn IT staff performance indicators.

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