Convention Season
Convention season is upon us. I know that conventions happen throughout the year, but it seems like April is when things kick into high gear. As anyone who has been in IT for more than a month can...
View ArticlePortfólio SolarWinds
ProdutoComo é licenciado?Tamanhos disponíveisPerguntasRespostasPalavras chavesSolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)Licenciado pelo número de elementosNPM SL100 (até 100 elementos)...
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Microsoft Re-Ignited with SolarWinds and I.T. Feels So Good
Microsoft Ignite 2015 concluded its inaugural event with 20k+ attendees. The SolarWinds team united in the Windy City, Chicago, to provide the single point of truth in IT monitoring for the continuous...
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The IT Approach to Security
Hello again! Welcome to my next installment with various slides I've stolen from my own presentations I'd deliver at conference If you read last weeks installment on this Checkbox vs Checkbook Security...
View ArticleWhy a difficult-to-operate box is in the interest of Cisco !
I have been selected, a THWACK ambassador for the month of May, where every week I will write on a topic related to network management. I work for an operator and also write at my blog at...
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Monitoring and Alerting Repairs it Entirely!
Throughout previous blog posts, I talked about thin provisioning, approaches to move from fat to thin, and the practice of over committing. All what I communicated was about their system, advantages,...
View ArticleWho Watches the Watcher? Admin Privileges are a Little Scary, but Don’t Have...
I was watching a recent webcast titled, “Protecting AD Domain Admins with Logon Restrictions and Windows Security Log” with Randy Franklin Smith where he talked (and demonstrated) at length techniques...
View ArticleHow Are Your Scripting Skills?
If you are an Oracle DBA and reading this, I am assuming all of your instances run on *nix and you are a shell scripting ninja. For my good friends in the SQL Server community, if you haven’t gotten...
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WHAT IS SAVING YOU ON A REGULAR BASIS?
In my last post "THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY TO MANAGE VIRTUALIZED SYSTEMS", we talked about what systems are out there and which ones everyone is using. Ecklerwr1, posted a nice chart from VMare which...
View ArticleDoing IT Remotely!
Often, as organizations grow and expand, it can make the job harder for IT teams. The IT infrastructure may become larger and more complicated—be distributed across various sites and locations. For...
View ArticleNeed for Role Delegation in IP Administration – Part 1
In a network, whether small or large, spread over one location or many—there are network administrators, system administrators, or network engineers who frequently access the IP address store. While...
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Little Database of Horrors - Please Don't Feed The Monsters!
FEED ME SEYMOUR! That's what I hear when anyone jumps to a conclusion that the database needs more CPU, memory, or faster disks. Why? Because I'm a DBA who has seen this too many times. The database...
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Trust... But Verify
Let me start by saying, wow and thank you to everyone who maintains such a high activity in this community. While I may occasionally share some jibber jabber with all of you, you are all the real...
View ArticleAre you checking the pulse of your IP network ?
Fault Management (FM) and Performance management (PM) are two important elements of OAM in layer 2 and layer 3 networks. FM covers faults management related to connectivity/communication of end...
View ArticleHow to Guide: Monitoring & Alerting on IIS Server Performance
If you have purchased or are trialing Server & Application Monitor, attached is a document that will help you set up alerts and get AppInsight for IIS configured. We often get the question – what...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of Web Help Desk 12.3
It’s exciting to share with you, that we reached GA milestone for Web Help Desk (WHD) 12.3! Focus of this release was ability to link service requests into parent/child relationship and thus address...
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Announcing Storage Resource Monitor 6.1 GA
If you haven't noticed, Storage Resource Monitor 6.1 is now GA! What does this mean? More array support! This release adds additional device support to the Orion Module, allowing customers to...
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HOW TO RIGHT-SIZE YOUR VDI ENVIRONMENT?
Guys, I'm really excited to be part of the Thwack community. My first post "THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY TO MANAGE VIRTUALIZED SYSTEMS" reached more than 2550 people and my second post reached over 800...
View ArticleTaking a Backup on Your Job--Data Career Management
Career management is one of my favorite topics to write and or talk about, because I can directly help people. Something I notice as a consultant going into many organizations is that many IT...
View ArticleAvoid Delivery Failure with Monitoring Implementation Standards
Look, almost all of us have been there you’re slogging through Monday morning after staying up late watching The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. That new hot shot application owner is guaranteeing...
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