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30 Dec 2008
Cool tool, free for a limited time - SolarWinds Lan Surveyor Express for Microsoft Visio
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Careers & other Craziness
I normally try to keep sales and marketing type stuff out of my blog but this information is pretty cool. The marketing team is giving away free copies of our LAN Surveyor Express (LSE) for the rest of the year (the next 2 days). You can get it here or go to the website to read more about it. LSE is a really nifty tool. Basically, you run it and LSE will do a complete layer 3 and layer 2 discovery of your network and will build a detailed topology map of all of discovered devices. The information is then exported direclty into Microsoft Visio so that you can view, edit, and save...
24 Dec 2008
Happy Holidays from the Geek at SolarWinds
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
As I sit at my desk, having enjoyed a traffic-free commute this morning, I find myself rather enjoying the holiday feel around the office. You see, one of the perks of being Head Geek (HG) is that they remove the traditional door to your office and replace it with a high-velocity revolving door. This way people that need technical assistance and/or information can whip in and out of your office without really slowing down. It's quite efficient and enables you to help countless people every day that would've otherwise had to stand in queue. While this is a great system, working...
22 Dec 2008
New video on Top 5 SolarWinds Free Tools
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Careers & other Craziness
Last week I got the chance to chat with Chris Pirillo ( the Lockergnome ) about some of our free tools. Check it out on YouTube . Flame on... Josh Follow me on Twitter
17 Dec 2008
Super Hero Debate
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
As many of you know, I'm a HUGE fan of super heroes. Love the movies, comics, TV shows, costumes, toys, gadgets - you name it. Well, there's a great debate going on right now as to what actually qualifies someone as a super hero. It started with an argument about whether or not Spock is a super hero and has developed into much, much more... If you're as big a fan of super heroes as I am, you really can't afford not to chime in and make your opinion known on this debate. http://thwack.com/forums/p/12805/52718.aspx#52718 Flame on... Josh Follow me on Twitter
16 Dec 2008
Have I mentioned how much I love our MIB Browser lately?
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: No Categories
For the last week or so I've been neck deep in a project where I've had to investigate the capabiltiies and performance of the SNMP MIBs and SNMP agents of a couple of different types of devices from a handful of different vendors. Let me tell ya, this got complicated in a hurry. In some cases the MIBs were being written and I was literally testing them the same day and in some cases the SNMP agents were open source derivatives and had all kinds of weirdness going on. The sickest part is probably that this was more fun for me than the last vacation I went on. Yeah, I'm...





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