Once you perform regular monitoring, it will not help if you keep all the results and findings to yourself. Knowing whom to tell what information, and when to tell it, is a major necessity.
Merely implementing a Network Monitoring solution is not enough. You should also know which aspects of your network need monitoring.
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Today Paessler officially announced MIB Importer, a free software tool for existing Paessler customers that seamlessly converts proprietary network device Management Information Base (MIB) data into a format that is compatible with Paessler’s PRTG Traffic Grapher and IPCheck Server Monitor applications. This enables administrators to quickly and easily configure SNMP sensors for gathering critical network diagnostic information. By providing a hassle-free solution to monitoring, Paessler allows network administrators more time to focus on strategic initiatives.
Read more in our press release.
Mark Russinovich, the man behind the indispensable Sysinternals Tools (recently bought by Microsoft), published a good article about Vista’s User Account Control (UAC) on the TechNet website.
The way a web site runs is often critical to the operation of a business, so it is vitally important that any problems that might affect a site’s optimal performance levels are identified - before they happen.
Paessler’s Webserver Stress Tool has been designed for exactly this purpose. It is a comprehensive HTTP-client/server test application that will simulate hundreds, or even thousands, of simultaneous and independent users.
Read more in our latest press release.
When creating websites for high traffic the magic keyword is “scaling”. There is an interesting presentation by Cal Henderson (architect with flickr.com) available on slideshare.com which covers this topic.
PRTG Traffic Grapher from Paessler offers systems administrators live data on the current network state as well as long-term utilization trends. So, line capacities of routers, firewalls, servers, and other network components can be systematically optimized. PRTG collects the required data and information from the SNMP capable devices to be controlled by using sensors that are set up accordingly while applying four different procedures.
Monitoring by applying the “Simple Network Management Protocol” is widely used and simple to install. It ensures that bandwidths and measurements such as CPU utilization, storage utilization, or temperature are always kept track of.
Read more in our latest press release