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30 Jul 2008
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
Well, I'm fresh back from a short vacation down in Argentina and I find myself working on a problem today that required the use of a protocol analyzer or "sniffer". It got me to thinking about the fact that many network administrator's today have never actually taken a packet trace or analyzed a packet. Furthermore, when the need does arise, many of the people I deal with don't really know how to get started. So, with that in mind, here are few things to keep in mind if you find yourself in that situation... Head Geek's Top 5 Things to Remember about Analyzing...
24 Jul 2008
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
Hey guys, check out this new video where I provide some quick tips on mapping switch ports. I am on my way to Argentina for a quick vacation so have a great week. Flame on!!
21 Jul 2008
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Application monitoring
SQL Server performance is a hot topic these days, especially if you're leveraging your SQL Server for a high performance NMS. This can become even more critical when you add applications like NetFlow which tend to carry a significant I/O burden. In some organizations you can rely on the DBA team to own/maintain/optimize the database servers for you. Unfortunaely, for many of us this isn't an option either because we dont' have a DBA team or because it's such a political mess trying to work with them. This causes us to have to implement and maintain our own database...
17 Jul 2008
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
I've been doing network engineering ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper and I'm still just as guilty as the next guy - when I see a problem the first thing I do is blame the network. Case in point, I was hosting a webcast for some of our partners today and during the presentation the demo server that I was using suddenly started timing out. My first thought - we have a performance issue on the network. Before I could stop myself I'm reviewing NetFlow statistics, running TraceRoute utilities, and trying to figure out where the bottleneck was occurring.... Actual...
14 Jul 2008
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
I get asked a lot about monitoring "custom" attributes with Orion and while this was definitely possible in Orion v8.x it's dramatically improved in Orion 9.x with the new "Universal Device Poller" or "UnDP". The UnDP is one of the new features of Orion v9 which released on July 1st of 2008 (about 2 weeks ago). It not only allows you to pull basic data stored within propietary MIBs but also allows you to do some pretty advanced monitoring like pulling in entire tables and running calculations against the collected data. I've had great success...





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