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29 Aug 2008
Using IP SLA, RTT, SAA, or whatever you'd like to call it these days...
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
Some of the coolest technology out there today is basically free - or at least something most of us have already bought and paid for but never used. I'm talking about Cisco's IP SLA which has also been called RTT and SAA. IP SLA is a feature within Cisco IOS that let's you use the router/switch as sort of a probe or agent out on the network. IP SLA can generate test traffic from these devices deployed out on your network to other devices out on the network giving you a sort of "fully meshed" view of network performance. Some of the IP SLA operations include...
26 Aug 2008
Webcast on Reducing Network Firefighting
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
On Thursday (8/28/2008) we'll be hosting a webcast on ways to reduce network firefighting. We'll be covering some best practices for quickly solving critical network issues and we'll even do a sneak peak at the new Orion NCM and the integration between that and Orion NPM. One of the subjects we'll discuss is network issues that we've seen caused by configuration errors. I certainly know that I've brought down my share of networks over the years with fat-fingered ACLs, bad route statements, and spanning tree mishaps. If you have a cool story of a network issue...
25 Aug 2008
Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM) - Sneak Peak
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Configuration Management
Usually when I'm working with companies on their network management strategy, while fault and performance management are top of mind, configuration management falls by the wayside. Nearly everyone that I've worked with wants to have easy to use, effective, and integrated configuration management - but for the most part this has historically been just too much trouble to make it feasible with everything else we have going on. I'm proud to announce that this situation has now changed. Tomorrow we're going to officially announce the new Orion Network Configuration Manager...
18 Aug 2008
New Release - Orion APM v2.0 - Our geekiest application and system monitoring tool yet...
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Application monitoring
For those of you that haven't seen it, Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM) Version 2.0 is now officially released and early feedback is that it's a big hit. As you know, Orion APM v1 focused on ending the blame game and giving us as network engnineers enough visibility into application status and performance to know if the issue was the network, server, application, or database. APM 2.0 goes well beyond that and offers us the ability to do extensive server and application monitoring through built-in monitors, WMI, and custom scripts. Virtually any script that you've...
14 Aug 2008
Apple iPhone use in the Enterprise
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
For those of you that aren't aware, I became an iPhone addict early after their initial release and continue to be a huge fan with the release of the new software versions and the 3G versions of the device. You can read a bit more about it in these blog posts - " Top of the Mornin to You from Cork " and " Blackberry is out - iPhone is in ". All that said, that's my perspective as a user of the iPhone. As a network engineer running an enterprise network, it sort of scares the bejeezus out of me. To name a few of the obvious impacts: the population of Apple...





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