Archive for June, 2007

Check out the ServerTech blog…recommended


June 29th, 2007

I strongly recommend you check out the ServerTech blog focused on the data centre. The ServerTech products are available from us, so perhaps we are biased.
Support for the ServerTech manageable CDUs is coming soon to Intellipool Network Monitor. Combine the Sensatronics temperature monitor capabilities and you’ve got a great way to power down/up [...]

Popularity: 15% [?]

Product re-organisation time again


June 28th, 2007

Some of you may have spotted a few minor tweaks to the product categorisation recently. Both the cable tracker and telephone tester categories have been split off from the cable tester category.
Why? Neither the cable trackers nor telephone testers are cable testers in the sense most people reading this understand the term. So, why you [...]

Popularity: 17% [?]

ANN: Brother label printers now available


June 26th, 2007

The Brother label printers work great with Test-Um Validator range. Both the Validator and Validator-NT include the Plan-Um software with which you can design your cable layouts. Now you can also print your cable labels at the same time, right inside the Plan-Um software.
The Plan-Um software supports the Brother PT18R, PT9500 and PT9600.
Popularity: 16% [?]

Popularity: 16% [?]

“New wave” network management licences


June 25th, 2007

Michael Tiemann made an interesting post titled Will the Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up. Alex Fletcher wrote an interesting follow up.
That got me thinking…how kosher are the licences used by the “new wave” open source network management companies? Have Hyperic, Groundwork and Zenoss really got the open source bug, or do they want [...]

Popularity: 14% [?]

Practical Packet Analysis Book


June 22nd, 2007

Just found an interesting book…if you’re a blood ‘n guts comms bod then I think this book should find a place in your bookshelf. The book can be found here on the publisher’s website.
The author, Chris Sanders, also has a good blog too. Well worth adding to your feed reader.
Popularity: 17% [?]

Popularity: 17% [?]

The World of Industrial Device Networking


June 21st, 2007

If you manage networks in industrial or harsh environments, or if you have serial equipment that you currently have to monitor manually and are maybe wondering about the benefits of device networking, you could do worse than checking out this blog entry by Gary Marr, Senior Field App. Engineer, Lantronix (manufacturers of Netport Serial/Ethernet adaptors) [...]

Popularity: 6% [?]

ANN: Intellipool build 2108


June 21st, 2007

A new bug fix update has been released of Intellipool Network Monitor.
Popularity: 19% [?]

Popularity: 19% [?]

ANN: Introducing product comparison


June 20th, 2007

It sure has been a busy week. We’ve introduced two new features on the website in well under a week. First came the quick guides, and now comes product comparison.
The basic idea is that you can quickly, side-by-side, compare two or more products to see which one suites your requirements best. Hardly a revolutionary change, [...]

Popularity: 9% [?]

Accessing raw data in Intellipool Network Monitor


June 19th, 2007

A number of you have asked for the ability to access the raw stats from your temperature monitor. So, I thought we’d better write it up for future reference.
Whilst you’ve asked about outputting temperature logs, the same procedure works for anything else held by Intellipool.
Click on Settings|Reports
In the Customized reports section click New customized report
Type [...]

Popularity: 8% [?]

ANN: Introducing the quick guide


June 18th, 2007

The more observant of you may have noticed a minor change to the environment monitor page. We know that you don’t like reading masses of product descriptions to select the product you need. So, to speed things up, we have introduced the Quick Guide.
The Quick Guide gives you only the most important features of a [...]

Popularity: 10% [?]