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Alterrain manufactures high-end mountain bikes with models for general recreational use and specialty models for racing. Alterrain products are sold throughout North America and Europe. The company operates from an office building adjacent to its manufacturing building. A centralized server and network operations room in the office building is fully networked, as is the manufacturing building.The office building houses management along with the Marketing, Accounting, and Research and Design departments. The Manufacturing, Inventory, and Shipping departments are housed in the manufacturing building. Network communications in the office building are largely wireless, but the servers use cable connections to the network and are protected behind a router. The manufacturing building has a cable network because the machinery used in the building and the building structure are not well suited for dependable wireless communications.Alterrain has 12 Windows Server 2016 servers. The company employees use a combination of Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Linux desktop and laptop computers.Because the company has recently experienced network and server problems, management has decided to launch a proactive network and server resource efficiency initiative. The goal of this program is to minimize computer interruptions and maximize user productivity. As part of the initiative, they have hired you through Aspen Consulting to help put into place efficiency measures.Obtaining BaselinesThe Alterrain IT Department does little server monitoring because most of its time has been spent upgrading servers and network equipment as well as responding to user needs. You recommend starting the proactive network and server resource efficiency initiative by developing a plan for gathering baseline performance data on each server. Prepare a report or slide presentation for the IT director that describes the baseline data you would gather.