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Project overview

The Body Shop International

Project title WAN monitoring
Company name The Body Shop International
Industry sector Retail
Business description Cosmetics
No of company employees 5898
Company locations 2045 sites worldwide
Location of company HQ Littlehampton - UK
Technical infrastructure Cisco PIX firewalls, Cisco VPN routers, Cisco routers, BT IP Reach, BT International Internet, BT ISDN 2 and ISDN 30
Project requirements

Design a remote monitoring system to report on systems availability, systems usage and site connectivity for 420 locations across the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland

Deliver a comprehensive reporting system to provide:

Statistics for hourly utilisation of dial-up and ISDN connections; ensuring 85% utilisation is maintained in the data centre
Automated management of service level agreements for 10 international carriers, including BT, MCI, Swisscom, Deutche Telecom and France Telecom
Immediate notification of unprecedented ISDN usage
1st line support for incident management on carrier circuits and Cisco hardware; including hardware replacement ad trouble shooting to locate problem source and problem owner
Project description
Data collection of all sites to be monitored including external IP addresses, internal router addresses, WAN and ISDN interfaces and carrier circuit numbers
Define and monitor thresholds for each carrier and interface, including utilisation, usage and availability
Define and manage escalation procedures to BSI internal helpdesk or third parties (including Cisco, BT, MCI, etc.)
Define reporting formats for WAN management information
Monthly service reviews of WAN performance, availability, data usage and security
Products supplied None
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