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25 Nov 2008
Tech Preview for the new SolarWinds Dashboard...
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
The dev team here at SolarWinds has just finished a new tech preview of the SolarWinds Dashboard and as of yesterday it's available to the public for download . This is a cool new application and sort of a new concept in network monitoring and diagnostics. You can play with the Dashboard for the next couple of months for free and I highly suggest that you check it out. As for me personally, I've been playing with alpha code for the dashboard for a few months now and I've sort of fallen in love with it. Part of why I like it is that there are tons of undocumented features...
21 Nov 2008
The headache of managing overlapping IP address space...
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
If you've never had to deal with networks with overlapping or duplicated IP ranges this you may also be the kind of person that's prone to winning at slot machines and always seems to be able to catch a cab in the rain - i.e. you're one lucky propeller head . Managing networks where the same address ranges appear in multiple places is a read pain. In enterprise networks this usually occurs when you go through M&A . I used to run the technical side of M&A for a large company here in the US that, at the time, gobbled up companies the way that many of us will be gobbling...
18 Nov 2008
Heading out to Arizona for a quick Orion install and setup...
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
This afternoon I'm heading out to Tucson to visit with Joel Snyder and geek out a little on network management best practices, SolarWinds software , and industry trends. While there, we're going to be installing Orion NPM and all of the Orion modules to monitor the lab at Opus One . So, we're going to have about 4 hours to go from a vanilla Windows Server to a fully functioning and customized NMS. We'll be installing and setting up SQL, Orion, all of the modules, doing a discovery, building maps, alerts, customizing views - you get the picture. My question for you...
10 Nov 2008
TechTalk on DNS wth DNS Experts...
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
For those of us that have been in this industry for a while we know that DNS can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. My first experience with DNS involved setting up DNS on an AT&T Unix server, reading and studying the O'Reily book DNS and Bind , and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. DNS is one of those subjects that if you don't work with it ever day, refershing your mind on the subject when a need arises can be rough. Nevertheless, I really can't count the times that I've seen some really hairy network issues that could've been solved hours or even...
6 Nov 2008
Password Safe
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
I've been using a pretty nifty open source tool for a while now and so I thought I'd share. The tool is called Password Safe and is a great little application for storing user accounts and passwords. Yeah, I know, I know - you're not supposed to write these down anywhere but to be honest between Facebook, Yammer, Twitter, Thwack, SolarWinds, Cisco, NetworkWorld, 5 different banks, MySpace, MSN, and all of the other sites that I commonly login to and with the fact that I like to rotate passwords fairly often - well, it was more than I could keep up with. I've been...





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