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I love watching those modern movies where IT works magically. In these movies, any average Joe with access to a computer or terminal can instantly access anything with seamless effort. Everything is clear and neat, we’re presented with impeccably clean data centers, long alleys of servers with no spaghetti cables lying…
Business services and infrastructure services have divergent interests and requirements: business services are not focusing on IT. They may leverage IT, but their role is to be a core enabler for the organization to execute on its business strategy, i.e. delivering tangible business outcomes to internal or external…
Hello, I am using FTP Voyager Scheduler to upload data to my weather site from my weather station. But this night the power went off for an hour and after this the system booted again and started all programs. Also FTP Voyager Scheduled was started bur did not perform any tasks. To get all working again I had to manually…
Newbie here. I'm working with the trial version of the RMM application, installed in France, as that's where I live and my business is based. It's currently all in French but I prefer to work in English (first language). Is there a way to change the language used for the system monitor dashboard? See below for the current…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp about improving systems management for Microsoft environments. He explores a range of considerations. Microsoft offers some of its own monitoring options, such as System Center and Windows Admin…
In the IT industry, you’ll hear “I’ll sell you a DevOps; how much is it worth?” But the joke’s on you because you can’t sell (or buy) DevOps, as it is, in fact, an intangible entity. It’s a business process combining software development (Dev) and IT management processes (Ops) with the aim of helping teams understand what…
It’s time to stop seeing IT as just a black hole to throw money towards and instead, give back to the business. Often, the lack of proper measurement and standardization are the problem, so how do we address this? We’ve all tried to leverage more funds from the organization to undertake a project. Whether replacing aging…
Many organizations grow each year in business scope and footprint. When I say footprint, it’s not merely the size of the organization, but the number of devices, hardware, and other data center-related items. New technologies creep up every year, and many of those technologies live on data center hardware, servers,…
I don’t think there’s anyone out there that truly loves systems monitoring. I may be wrong, but traditionally, it’s not the most awesome tool to play with. When you think of systems monitoring, what comes to mind? For me, as an admin, a vision of reading through logs and looking at events and timestamps keeps me up at…
Systems monitoring has become a very important piece of the infrastructure puzzle. There might not be a more important part of your overall design than having a good systems monitoring practice in place. There are good options for cloud hosted infrastructures, on-premises, and hybrid designs. Whatever situation you are in,…
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