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Four predominant IT use cases any network device configuration management tool must address are: * Configuration change management: scheduling device configuration backups, requiring change approval for configuration changes, scheduling execution of approved changed. * Compliance reporting: defining and enforcing…
As network engineers, administrators, architects, and enthusiasts we are seeing a trend of relatively complicated devices that all strive to provide unparalleled visibility into the inner workings of applications or security. Inherent in these solutions is a level of complexity that challenges network monitoring tools, it…
One of the most common discussions among network administrators is about anticipating and preventing issues even before users notice them. This blog will help you understand the importance of baselining in network monitoring, and how beneficial it can be to get steady network performance. What is Network Baselining?…
or “It’s not just the cost of buying the puppy, it’s the cost of feeding the puppy that adds up” This is a story I've told out loud many times, on conference calls, and around water coolers. But I've never written it down fully until now. This is the story of how using the wrong tool for the job can cost a company so much…
An IP address conflict occurs when two computers connected to a Local Area Network (LAN) or the Internet are assigned the same IP address. When this happens, the network interface on systems becomes disabled, causing each system to lose connectivity until the conflict is resolved. Some of the reasons for this common…
After 2020, there are only two types of businesses: those who have retained customers or grown, and those who lost customers to more nimble competitors. There are many reasons. The transition away from traditional retail, shifting customer expectations, and internal operations challenges due to increasing complexity all…
Like many of you, I suspect, I am firmly under the thumb of my corporate security group. When they want to know what’s going on on the network I’ll put in as many taps as they want; but sometimes they want more than that, especially where NAT is involved and IPs and ports change from one side of a device to the other and…
In my last post WHEN BEING AN EXPERT ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH: MASTER OF ALL TRADES, JACK OF NONE, you all shared some great insight on how you were able to be find ways to be successful as individual SMEs and contributors, and how you could navigate the landscape of an organization. This week, I’d like to talk about silo…
The terms EMS, NMS and OSS are often misunderstood and used interchangeably. This can, sometimes, lead to a confusion on which system can do what functions. Therefore I am attempting to clarify these terms in a simple way. This may help you in making informed decisions when procuring management systems. But before…
Part 1 IT environments are getting increasingly complex and can often straddle on-premises gear, private cloud, public and/or multi-cloud, and SaaS environments... oh, and it’s a moving target. Your legacy applications may have to reincarnate in one of these forms with minimal disruption. And when things go wrong, you need…
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