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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.

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.

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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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