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Hey, what happened to my memory?
So you're using SolarWinds Storage Manager (STM), storage monitoring tool and you get an OutofMemory or PermGen Memory error message. What do you do? The solution can be as simple as stopping the Storage Manager service, changing or adding and argument in an .ini or .sh file, and restarting the service. So, here is what…
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Not just another flash in the SAN
There's been lots of talk in the virtualization market about using flash-based storage or SSD to enhance performance. The major premise is that the bottleneck, in many environments is storage I/O instead of storage capacity. This isn't a new problem - storage administrators and DBAs have been dealing with this for years. I…
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THE ART OF CONFIGURING FLOW TECHNOLOGIES
Check out our Head Geeks in SolarWinds Lab Episode #4: Floapalooza, as they discuss about latest flow technologies and walk you through the command line configuration of JFlow, sFlow and NetFlow, with tutorials and hands on demonstration. They’ll also cover topics on how to set up NetFlow on a Cisco Device, JFlow on…
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Come see SolarWinds at Cisco Live! next week in San Francisco!!!
Booth #931 Free swag (T-shirts, USB keys, geek pins) Free geek drawings (yeah, like my avatar but of you) Free Mountain Dew (hey, we all get thirsty) Technology presentations every half hour by yours truly (hence why I get so thirsty) Follow the event thru Twitter if you can't attend in person (trust me, it'll be worth it)…
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Proactive Website Monitoring
Web application up-time is critical to any organization. Regardless of the applications being accessed from inside or outside the firewall, they need to be up and running all the time. So, it is critical to proactively monitor the availability and response time from one or more locations at all times, and isolate issues…
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Free money for Orion Reports...
I'm not sure how many of you are aware, but the SolarWinds marketing department is sponsoring a contest where you can win some cash for providing custom reports you've written for Orion. They don't need your data - just the report itself. Looks like you can win as much as $500 and I know that participation has been low so…
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SolarWinds on Cisco TechWise TV
We had the opportunity to appear and participate in an episode of Cisco's TechWise TV a few days ago on the subject of effect VoIP deployment and management. I thought the information was very good and we definitely got some great questions during the show. You can view the show by going here:…
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IT Blogger Spotlight: Ethan Banks of Ethan Banks on Networking and Packet Pushers
Last month, we shined our IT blogger spotlight on Michael Stump, who was one of the delegates at the recent Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld. This month, I figured why not keep it up? So, I tracked down the renowned Mr. Ethan Banks (@ecbanks), who also participated in the event. Without further ado, here’s what he had to…
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MARS Need(ed) Women!
Well, I guess technically MARS doesn't need anybody anymore, since Cisco is in the slow process of killing it. Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (MARS) is a SIEM product, and by many accounts, well-liked. As early as 2008, however, rumors of trouble in Cisco-MARS-land began to surface. The actual…
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Offline Patch Management made easy!!
We all know that patch management is a vital part of an organization's security management process, not just to stay abreast of bug fixes and new features but also to bring down the vulnerabilities. All said and done, there are two areas that remain a challenge: * The potential difficulty and complexity of getting updates…