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Maintaining the health of ECS requires the use of tools such as the ECS portal to monitor overall system-level health and performance information, syslog, and SNMP. The following sections provide information about best practices for ECS administrators’ day-to-day operations such as monitoring, Dell Secure Connect Gateway (formerly ESRS), and product alerts and updates, as well as best practices for hardware capacity expansion.