Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 45

November 6, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 45 2009. Hacking The Reboot With Nagios Magic A long overdue report of DevopsDays Slow Bandwidth? Remove Unused Protocols to Improve Speed Cynical Cloud Computing Lina Software’s Cross-platform Port of Zenoss 2.5 Sending Notifications from PRTG to iPhones With Prowl For Free Meet the [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 44

October 30, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 44 2009. Hockey Night in the Data Center Simple Network Management with Syslog The Kindness of Strangers – Tarus Balog (of OpenNMS) gives a talk at the Open Source Monitoring conference in Germany RRDtool 1.4 – higher Performance and cool Features Zenoss 2.5 is [...]

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The talibanisation of software

October 30, 2009

Why is software becoming so political? Sometimes it feels like the tech industry is being infiltrated by a “software taliban” determined to root out all non-believers in the one true path. A great example of the talibanisation of software is the reaction of parts of the open source community towards the Mono project. Why does Mono get [...]

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Air conditioner status point photo request

October 28, 2009

This may sound like an odd request but I’m going to make it anyway… Does anybody have any photos of the dry contact status points on their server room air conditioning units that I could use as an illustration on a guide I am currently updating? A picture saves a thousand words as they say [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 43

October 23, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 43 2009. Microsoft “Patch Tuesday” – The Aftermath A Preview of the New User Interface in Opsview 3.5.0 A Peek into the Developer Environment – a look into the typical Zenoss developer development environment The Blue Screen of Deathly Hallows – some good feedback [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 42

October 16, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 42 2009. Is SPAN Port really so bad? Ethereal is Dead! – time to move on folks, Wireshark keeps on getting better Open Source, Open Core, Open ScoreCards Review of Wireshark and CACE Pilot GWOS Slashes Pricing For Introduction to Enterprise Edition The Five [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 41

October 9, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 41 2009. Using Real-time Events to drive your Network Scans Conclusion: KPIs and Application Monitoring IT Hiring Improving? There may be signs that the IT jobs market is improving, in the States anyway. Not before time if you ask me. QuickTip: Managing Columns in [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 40

October 2, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 40 2009. GroundWork Joins Microsoft System Center Alliance Download WUG 14.1 or WhatsConfigured? Want a $100 Gift Card? – What’s Up Gold 14.1 is now out The Many Uses of Net-SNMP The Business of Open Source is Not Software Three Chances to Win a [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 39

September 25, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 39 2009. Practical Packet Analysis, 2nd Edition – Coming in 2010! – an update is coming soon to my favourite blood ‘n guts networking book Zenoss 2.5 Beta 3 is Now Available Nessus 4.2 – Video Preview Of The New Client Interface MonitoringForge – [...]

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BUG now available in Europe

September 23, 2009

Great news for gadget fans in Europe. Bug Labs have announced the availability of their amazing gadget making kit in Europe with all of the appropriate approvals like RoHS and CE. In addition Bug Labs have announced the availability of a WiFi and Bluetooth base module called BUGbase WiFi. All you need is a Windows, [...]

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