Open source network management buzz comparison 2009

January 7, 2010

I did a comparison of the buzz for the leading open source network management tools in 2008 so I thought it would be interesting to do the same comparison for 2009 and see what’s changed. As I did last year, I’ve compared the number of searches for the project name using Google Trends. As always, [...]

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JDSU ValidatorPRO-NT NT1155 Box Opening

January 6, 2010

A series of box opening photos of the recently released JDSU ValidatorPRO-NT NT1155 all-in-one copper, fibre and wireless tester with active network features.

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 51

December 18, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 51 2009. Wireshark 1.2.5 Released Icinga Core 1.0 Stable & Icinga Web 0.9.1 alpha released! ChannelWeb’s take on 2009 – and what it means for WhatsUp Gold Day 18 – Who Watches the Watcher? – how do you know whether your monitoring systems are [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 50

December 11, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 50 2009. New Releases: OpenNMS 1.6.8 and OpenNMS 1.7.8 – new stable and development snapshots from OpenNMS. Happy Birthday Cisco! – many happy returns to Cisco… Why Not WhatsConfigured? – the case for using network configuration management Wireshark: The Benefits of Marking Packets – [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 49

December 4, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 49 2009. Howto: Rebooting a Computer via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) call How to reboot a computer using Windows WMI. Introducing Enterprise Edition SUSE Powered Virtual Application Groundwork Open Source announce the availability of Growndwork Enterprise Edition 6.0 bundled in a SUSE powered virtual [...]

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The Tech Teapot Three Today

November 30, 2009

The Tech Teapot is three years old today. Well, if you want to be pedantic, it was three years old last Thursday but I forgot all about it! A selection of my favourite posts from the last year: Open source network management buzz comparison 2008 Tivoli vs open source network management buzz 2008 Open source [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 48

November 27, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 48 2009. Monitoring (Almost) Any SQL Server Through ADO with PRTG Network Monitor How to monitor any database using ADO and PRTG Opsview 3.5.0 released! Opsera announces the release of Opsview 3.5 community edition with a new user interface Under the Hood: Capture Filters, [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 47

November 20, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 47 2009. Black Duck Software – amongst other things, Taros Balog investigates the licence terms of the Zenoss Enterprise product Auditing 100,000 Hosts or More with Nessus SSL/TLS Flawed: Using Wireshark to Decrypt Attack Traces from PhoneFactor New Version of PRTG Consumes Less Memory [...]

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Network Computing rates PRTG #1

November 16, 2009

The German magazine Network Computing has done a comparison of four well known network monitoring packages: PRTG 7.2, What’s Up Gold 14, Solarwinds Orion Network Performance Manager 9.5 and ManageEngine OpManager 8. From all these points of view we can only advise those who are looking for a good monitoring product to write PRTG Network [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 46

November 13, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 46 2009. WhereFi, WhenFi, and WiFi – a discussion of why there isn’t more free WiFi available Scanning Windows 7 With Nessus 4.2 – an interesting post outlining the security of a default Windows 7 installation Lua script – Checking expiry time of HTTPS [...]

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