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30 May 2008
Collecting System Logs for PCI Compliance
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Planning & Design, Network Monitoring
Here lately I've been asked alot about using Orion to collect data for PCI compliance. For the most part, this is pretty easy as Orion does a great job of managing routers, switches, firewalls, and servers. As a matter of fact, I've helped hundreds of customers setup special reports in Orion to highlight these features. Things get a little more complicated when it comes to collecting logs from Windows servers and PCs. One way to tackle this is to use the Windows Event Log forwarder that we provide as a free download. This utility installs on the Windows systems and converts...
28 May 2008
Greetings from New Jersey...
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Careers & other Craziness
Well, I'm out in New Jersey this week talking with the DoD about network management systems, interoperability, and best practices for building NOCs. I'd planned to take my iPhone out and get some cool pics of me standing in front of a tank or something but it's been dark when we finish every day. It's interesting to hear everyone's opinion about how network management systems should operate and interoperate. Definitely some very smart people here and I'm looking forward to chatting with them more tomorrow. In the meantime, I've been thinking a bit about...
20 May 2008
Understanding SNMP Polling and Counters
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Planning & Design, Network Monitoring
Two of the things that I get asked about a lot are a) how often you should poll your devices and b) how SNMP counters work. Let's address the question about polling frequency first. There are two primary types of polling - polling for status (up/down/warning) and polling for statistics (latency, traffic, errors, CPU, memory, etc). There are many schools of thought on how often you need to poll for status. On the extreme I've worked wiht customers that want everything from "once per day" to "real-time or every second". Across the industry 5 minute polling...
14 May 2008
SolarWinds Survey - Win a Wii...
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Careers & other Craziness
The marketing team here is hosting a survey and giving away some pretty sweet prizes. Well, I would never actually purchase a Wii myself, but if I won one I'd sure as heck play it :) Here's a link to the details. Help us out and take a few minutes to fill it out... Take a few minutes to share your thoughts in this short online survey. Why, you ask? Well, it's a great opportunity to have your voice heard back at SolarWinds HQ, plus we'll be giving away a Nintendo® Wii® to TWO lucky respondents, so start those mouse buttons clicking! TAKE THE SURVEY Flame on... Josh
14 May 2008
Back from Virginia...
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Careers & other Craziness
Well, I'm home now and had a great trip out to Virginia. I got to meet with several customers and some people that are interested in becoming customers so it was a great trip. For those of you that responded but I was unable to visit this time, I'll be headed out that way again soon. Josh





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