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Thanks for anyone's help in advance as I am struggling with my first attempt at creating a network map. So on our main Solarwinds dashboard we have a piece which shows the network utilisation of our various site MPLS links. This is the overall utilisation of the link from all sources. I wanted to reflect this on a network…
Monitoring your devices in the underlying network infrastructure is vital to maintain network up-time. The daily routine for administrators is to anticipate potential network issues that might bring business services down, anytime. But how can they be proactive and find issues that can cause a downtime? Today, we will…
What is Route Flapping? Route flapping can be termed as the stream of fluctuating routing updates received by the routers on your network as they are routing traffic based on pre-defined routing policies. A route flap occurs when a router alternately advertises a destination network via one route then another, or when…
What is IP Multicasting? While traditional IP communication allows a host to send packets to a single host (unicast transmission) or to all hosts (broadcast transmission), IP multicast is new a bandwidth-conserving technology that allows a host to send packets to a subset of all hosts as a group transmission. Multicast…
A rogue access point (AP) is a wireless access point that has gained access into secure enterprise network without explicit authorization from the network administration team. These unauthorized rogue access points open wireless backdoors into wired networks. There could be numerous unauthorized APs in and around the…
In past blog posts we've touched on IT management system scalability and failover. In relation to these topics, we should also explore how best to deploy scalability and failover tools that fit your network requirements and scale to support growing devices, servers & apps, users, network sites and customer locations.…
There are myriad reasons behind faulty network performance. Network problems can arise from faulty hardware such as routers, switches, and firewalls. They can also arise from unexpected usage patterns such as in the case of network bandwidth spikes that exceed their allocated bandwidth for users, or due to security…
Network administrators work endlessly to maintain high quality network services for business critical processes and applications to run smoothly. They are expected to monitor and deliver high network performance, without any downtime. While, achieving this has been daunting for network administrators, the need for ‘high…
Do you find it difficult to manage your increasingly complex network? Does your daily network maintenance routine feel like an uphill task? Then do not worry, you are just like any other network administrator in this world, who is trying to find a solution to a never ending problem. Network managers and administrators are…
Welcome to SolarWinds blog series “The Best Practices for Optimizing Alerts”. This is the last part of 3-part series where you can learn more about the best practices in optimizing your network alerts in your IT environment. In the previous blog, we had discussed network based alerting and how it helps administrators to…
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