Case Study: School District of Pickens County achieves proactive network monitoring across 32 sites with Paessler PRTG

School District of Pickens County monitors 32 sites with Paessler PRTG

The School District of Pickens County (SDPC), an educational institution with 32 schools, faced the challenge of managing a large, distributed network with a lean IT team and a limited budget. Their small staff was responsible for the entire IT infrastructure, and unplanned downtime was not an option as it would immediately impact over 16,000 students and 2,000 employees. To address this, they turned to vendor Paessler AG and implemented their PRTG monitoring solution.

By deploying Paessler's PRTG on a single server with one probe to monitor 2,600 sensors, SDPC gained comprehensive visibility across their network, servers, and cloud infrastructure. The solution from Paessler enabled the IT team to proactively resolve issues, such as fiber failures and network crashes, before they affected users. This proactive monitoring was especially crucial during the pandemic, allowing the team to manage the network effectively from anywhere. The flexibility of PRTG also allowed the district to maximize its existing resources and explore further automation.

School District of Pickens County