Remote Systems Administration

Need assistance with your Unix servers?

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Firmo Technologies, LLC offers remote Systems Administration for all Linux, Solaris, and AIX servers.To ensure maximum uptime and availablity of your Unix systems, they need proactive monitoring and solutions enabled before a critical event goes undetected and data loss occurs. Do you know when your servers have a lost a disk in a raid configuration? What about I/O errors, a failing SCSI controller, filesystem corruption? Proactive monitoring of the system can prevent many of the major data loss scenarios. Not every company has the luxury of a 10+ member IT staff do maintain their systems, that’s why we’re here to help. We can help detect hardware and software errors, and work to get solutions in place to resolve the issue before it becomes critical.

  • Common software configurations supported: Apache, Sendmail, Postfix, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, MySQL, Webmin, Usermin, PowerDNS, Bind/named, NFS, Samba, and Proftp just to name a few. If you have something else, just ask!
  • Common Operating Systems supported: Solaris 7,8,9,10, Linux: Gentoo, RedHat, Suse, Fedora, Slackware, etc, and AIX: 4.3.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
  • Weekly/Monthly patching services
  • Maintenance window activities
  • Specializing in IBM Virtual I/O<VIO> implementations and configurations on power5 and power6 hardware.
  • IBM power5/power6 LPAR configurations using Virtual I/O devices; virtual scsi, virtual ethernet, SAN based back-end storage devices, etc
  • IBM/AIX performance tuning and monitoring
  • User account maintenance
  • raid/LVM configurations
  • Remote server monitoring 24×7
  • Server resource management; file systems, CPU, memory, processes, etc
  • Domain configuration for web/email services
  • DNS configuration and hosting; powerdns, BIND/named, etc
  • Security audits and hardening
  • On-call support
  • Perl/PHP/Shell scripting support
  • Services starting at $200/month per server. System availability and resource monitoring is included with this fee. Monthly fee includes 3 hours of system work, which includes patching, account maintenance, troubleshooting performance issues, etc…. Extra fees apply for on-site work. Work performed wil be reported monthly. Critical service patches will require verificiation prior to applying to system, this would include major mail, web, and application services. Contact us for more info!

10+ years of experience in the IT field with Solaris and Linux operating systems.

Related Certifications: SCSA, SCSECA, RHCE

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