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31 Oct 2008
Network World just published a podcast that Jimmy Ray Pursor (geek guru over at Cisco ) and I did a few days ago on the Engineer's Toolset , Orion , NetFlow , and IP SLA . Give it a listen. Flame on... Josh Follow me on Twitter
31 Oct 2008
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
Be careful out there tonight!!! Josh
30 Oct 2008
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
Since we recently released a new free tool for monitoring ESX server health and performance and since Orion NPM now does a great job of natively monitoring ESX servers, a lot of people are asking how to configure SNMP on their ESX servers so that they can be monitored. Seems like a pretty logical question, so here's how you do it. To enable SNMP on ESX Server version 3.5: 1. Login as root 2. Edit the snmpd.conf file and add "rocommunity xxxx" where xxxx is your read-only community string). The file is usually located in /etc/snmpd. 3. While you're editing the snmpd...
21 Oct 2008
Among those of us that implement and maintain network management systems the topic of root cause analysis is one of much angst and frustration. Of course we'd all like our monitoring systems to be smart enough to correlate hundreds of seemingly unrelated events into some sort of epiphany of what's "really wrong" but as many of us have found out, that's a pretty lofty goal. Back when I ran a consulting company I loved root cause analysis/event correlation projects. Who wouldn't? It's a great way to generate tons of revenue and keep your engineers highly...
15 Oct 2008
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
Nowadays it seems that we're all using virtual server technologies and in my opinion, it's some pretty darn good stuff. We use virtual servers for everything from mission critical enterprise applications to software development platforms to lab and QA systems and the list doesn't stop there. Did I already say that this is some good stuff? The problem is, up until now there really haven't been any good tools for monitoring these virtual server environments and too many of the network management vendors out there are either charging extra for these features or ignoring...





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