Well folks, the new shop is now live. You may notice a few changes, in no particular order…
The main thrust of the new shop has been for you to find what you want faster and easier. You can now filter products based upon a number of characteristics. For instance, you can filter the temperature monitors [...]

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Most temperature monitoring equipment is purchased in order for you to be alerted when things go wrong. Quite often you want to be alerted using SMS.
Many of you use the z-text fixed line SMS modem for this performing the SMS end of the alerting. If that is you, you can stop reading right now because [...]

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Just a quick timetable for the website upgrade.
Tomorrow at around 5pm the website will be unavailable for around two hours. Friday afternoon is usually dead quiet. IT people have far better things to do on Friday afternoon than buy network management kit I am pleased to report.
Not content with ripping out one e-commerce [...]

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One of the interesting things to emerge in network management over the last year or two has been the commercial open source vendors like Groundwork & Zenoss.
The commercialisation of open source isn’t new, nor is it particularly surprising that commercialisation has happened in the network management space. Open source has been big in network and [...]

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Everybody loves Nagios, but let’s be honest, it can be a pain to set up, especially if you work in a Windows only environment. A few solutions do exist to make Nagios a little easier to get yourself up and running.
#1: Hardware Appliances

Hardware appliances take the hassle out of Nagios, for a price. You [...]

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Heads up for any WireShark (formerly Ethereal) fans. A new magazine, The Fin Bit, is launching Q2 2007 focusing on the using WireShark, Winpcap and related tools for analysing network comms. You can sign-up for a newsletter so that you can be informed of when the first issue is available.
WireShark training is also available, both [...]

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Monitoring the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is a constant preoccupation of many people who manage a server room. If the conversations we have with customers are anything to go by anyway. Here’s a quick guide. We can, of course, help out with a number of the options…the rest can only be done by your [...]

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The new e-commerce is now entering its testing phase. A test specification has been written and we are slowly going through it fixing bugs the testing shows up.
We have pencilled in the weekend of the 19-20 May for the switch over. Just a heads up to look for an email on the 21 May if [...]

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Everybody at OPENXTRA would like to wish the best of luck to Annie, who is getting married tomorrow. OPENXTRA have given Annie & her bridegroom John their wedding night hotel stay as the company wedding gift.
We all hope you enjoy your stay & the best of luck in your married life!
If you’d like to send [...]

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We will be closed for the UK May Day bank holiday on Monday 7th May. We hope you have a great day…looks like the weather is going to be nice.
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