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While it may not be circled in red on many people’s calendars, SysAdmin Day holds a special place in the hearts of many IT professionals. Certainly, because everyone likes to be appreciated for what they do, but more so because SysAdmin day is a chance for tech practitioners not only to recognize and celebrate, but to also…
Paul Guido has worn several hats during his IT journey. But now he’s made the leap from deep–dive individual contributor to managing teams of the same kind of IT pros he was (and still is). There are lessons in that journey – not just for IT practitioners considering the next step of their career, but also managers who…
Hang around with IT folks for anything longer than your typical stand-up meeting and you’re likely to hear some variation of “Managers! Am I right?” Snark aside, as folks who design, deploy, and maintain monitoring solutions, we’ve got a choice: we can continue to dismiss and diminish people who don’t know about our…
No, it’s not the latest culinary invention from a famous Italian chef: spaghetti cabling (a nice wording for cabling inferno) is a sour dish we’d rather not eat. Beyond this unsavory term hides the complexity of many environments that have grown organically, where “quick fixes” have crystallized into permanent solutions,…
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…
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