If you are considering Cisco Prime Infrastructure for network management, here are some principal reasons why you would want to try SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) SolarWinds NPM can reduce your TCO and increase ROI * Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of SolarWinds NPM is often less than the cost of initial…
When it comes to ice cream, some people like vanilla. Some people like chocolate. Some like strawberry. And in a pinch, some people will choose a fig newton. While figs are fine, they aren't ice cream . And if you want ice cream, a fig newton isn't going to fit the bill. In the same way, if you're looking for a server and…
Yesterday I had the good fortune to interview Kevin Small. Kevin is a system administrator for a large bank. JK: Kevin, why did you decide to use SolarWinds for your server monitoring needs? KS: In December 2011 I joined the team and was tasked with updating network monitoring. At that time the bank was using CA Spectrum…
Cisco's Smart Business Architecture The development of Cisco's Smart Business Architecture (SBA) for Mid-Sized Networks was designed to help you narrow down the number of choices available when designing your network. Cisco SBA provides a series of blueprints designed to simplify solutions for businesses with between 250…
The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is built into Windows to display and group similar tasks in a single view. It comes in a variety of pre-built configurations, or you can create your own. If you find yourself using several Windows management tools to get your job done, creating a custom MMC can make your life a lot…
Last week we discussed whether automation is expected in today’s IT environment. Many of you agreed that it’s definitely not a new thing, with SysAdmins scripting things years ago (hello, Kix32!). We could even argue that it was much easier to script things in the old days when DOS and Windows 3.1 relied on .ini files for…
Introducing Leaders in Big Data The craft of generating useful insights from the compost heaps of big data is still in its infancy. Google Tech Talks: Leaders in Big Data panel explores their experience with big data was well their ideas on what's needed to evolve into the next stages of this promising technology. The…
If you’re monitoring a large virtual infrastructure, then you might have come across memory ballooning and swapping issues at some point. Although memory ballooning causes swapping issues in a virtual environment, let’s look at what they both are and how it affects individual VM performance. When you setup a VM, you…
The Monday general session at VMWorld 2012 covered a lot of ground but didn’t really provide any major new technology announcements. It started off with some of the traditional background statistics showing VMware’s and virtualization’s growth from 2008 to 2012 including an increase in virtualized workloads from 25% to 60%…
WSUS Inventory collects server information and status information from the WSUS server and populates that data into the Patch Manager database. This data is collected via the WSUS API. An inventory task must be executed in order to use reporting. Create the WSUS Inventory Task There are several methodologies that can be…
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