Chapter 11. Monitoring Your Network Health
If you have a household full of computers, and you are reading this book, you are probably the one tasked with maintaining them. If so, you understand how hard it can be to keep up with all of the routine and nonroutine maintenance that goes along with the job of household IT guru. You need to make sure all of the computers have the latest updates, you need to keep virus and spyware programs up to date, and you need to make sure none of the computer are running out of disk space or suffering from other anomalies.
Now that you've added a Windows Home Server computer to the mix, you may be thinking that it's just going to add to the burden and be one more computer to maintain. Well, you are right. It is going to be one more computer to maintain. The bright side, however, is that Windows Home Server not only makes it easy to monitor notable events on the server, but it also lets you see what's going on with other computers on your network.
The Windows Home Server feature that brings you all of this is called Network Health, and it can tell you a lot. This chapter goes into detail on how to use it. You also learn how to interpret the notification messages that you will be receiving both from the server and from your other computers.
Viewing Network Health on ...
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