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Tuesday, December 18 2007

Paessler gets its website hosting from beyond content

Our websites are programmed and hosted by our service company beyond content. Here is what they say about themselves:

"Als Fullservice Internetagentur bietet beyond content seinen Kunden umfassende Unterstützung aus einer Hand für alle Online-Ambitionen. Mit langjähriger Erfahrung bei Beratung, Konzeption, Screendesign und Programmierung entwickelt beyond content Datenbank- und Multimedia-Applikationen, Redaktionssysteme und Templates, Shops und Konfiguratoren für individuelle Online-Projekte. Die Kunden erreichen ihre Ziele mit benutzerfreundlichen und informativen Internetseiten, auf denen sich die Besucher intuitiv zurechtfinden!"

We can only recommend their services!

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Monday, December 10 2007

Monitoring Macintosh Computers under Leopard using SNMP

As of the new Apple operating system Leopard, Macintosh users are able to monitor their resources and their hardware based on SNMP. John Welch has posted an article explaining the implementation and functionality of this newly included SNMP system at The Unofficial Apple Weblog. You can find the article under http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/05/john-welchs-guide-to-snmp-on-leopard. SNMP is one of the ways to monitor your systems with both our flagship software products, PRTG and IPCheck.

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Wednesday, December 05 2007

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) may cause SNMP Helper or PRTG's packet sniffer to fail

Some customers have had issues with installations of SNMP Helper Pro when the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) feature of Windows 2003 server was enabled. Also in some situations the packet sniffer feature of PRTG has shown problems with DEP enabled.

Read more in our knowledgebase

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Sunday, December 02 2007

How to Discern Excessive Bandwidth Usage using PRTG Traffic Grapher

PRTG allows administrators to discern actual bandwidth usage in their network based on multiple parameters, such as IP addresses, port numbers, protocols, etc., using either packet sniffing or NetFlow collector sensors. A new article in our knowledgebase explains how this feature can be used to find out who (or what PC/Server) is causing traffic peaks and excessive bandwidth usage in a network.

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