The importance of preventive computer maintenance

What is preventive maintenance?

Preventive maintenance is a type of computer maintenance that should be performed in all companies. With preventive maintenance are reduced to the maximum possible computer problems in your company at different levels: network and communications infrastructure, servers and workstations.

In preventive maintenance , maintenance of equipment, software or facilities is carried out . In this type of computer maintenance, a continuous review and improvement of all systems is carried out in order to guarantee their proper functioning.

The main difference between preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance is that preventive maintenance is performed on equipment or software that has good operating conditions and corrective maintenance when a fault has already arisen and needs repair.

Preventive maintenance in companies can be carried out at different levels, such as infrastructure and network levels, servers and jobs. Regardless of the level, this maintenance always has the same objective to prevent future breakdowns .

At CentroMipc we are your computer preventive maintenance company in Granada , we have been carrying out this type of maintenance in many companies for 20 years, and thus preventing future breakdowns, in many cases very costly for companies maintenance technican jobs.

Network and communications infrastructure
Preventive maintenance must be carried out periodically in the network and communications infrastructure of any company so that no faults appear in the future.

In any type of company there are different elements that belong to the network and communications infrastructure such as  cabling, communication cabinets and network electronics (switches, routers, access points, sais, firewalls ...).

Therefore, the network infrastructure is all the hardware and software elements involved in the transmission of data within the company . Switch, routers, firewalls, proxies, network cards, access points, vpn's, radio links, configuration of all of them.

From CentroMipc we carry out preventive maintenance of network and communications infrastructure to companies at two different levels, at the hardware level and the software level.

Hardware

In network infrastructure and communications at the hardware level we take into account the following factors to perform good preventive computer maintenance:

Connection Point Wiring Review
Checking the status of network and switch electronics
Router and access point review
Scalability, scalability
Physical cleaning of the installation and state of the refrigeration
Updating and / or extensions system improvements
software
In network infrastructure and communications at the software level, we take into account the following factors to perform good preventive computer maintenance:

Network status monitoring software (LAN and WIFI). Critical points, servers and jobs
Network Electronics Fireware Update
User control, network control and network input and output limitation