Some network administrators may only want to receive alerts for devices that are crucial to their network. In the case of smaller networks, others may want to receive alerts for all devices. No matter the strategy you choose for receiving alerts for your network, identifying the devices that are most important to your network is smart. After you identify these devices, you can design an alerting strategy to highlight their status.
For illustration purposes, we follow Nick, a network administrator for a company that develops software. Nick wants to receive alerts for the devices his colleagues and software customers need to be running everyday. Nick has decided that he wants to receive alerts on the mail server, the web server, and all servers that store product code and company information. Total, there are six servers for which Nick would like to receive alerts.