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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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 36

September 4, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 36 2009. New Pandora FMS screenshots Shawn’s Admin Corner II IBM Tivoli Business Service Management LinkedIn Group Zenoss Event Management Workshop with Skills 1st – a Zenoss events management workshop in the UK Alarm Point Monitoring Zenoss 2.4.5 is Now Available Wood – a [...]

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Pedal for Pounds – Yorkshire Cancer Research

September 1, 2009

On September 13th I will be taking part in the Pedal for Pounds North event raising money for the  cancer research charity Yorkshire Cancer Research. This will be the third time I’ve taken part in the sponsored bike ride, it is always very enjoyable cycling through 50 miles worth of beautiful, rolling countryside around Harewood [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 35

September 1, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 35 2009. Amazon Introduces Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Cloud Droplet #98 Good Will VPC – John M Willis discusses Amazon’s new VPC service. Nominations open for “Sysadmin of the year”! Graphing Nagios Services with pnp4nagios Zenoss Core Reaches 1 Million Downloads Splunk 4 [...]

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Intellipool Network Monitor v4 is released

August 17, 2009

After a full years worth of development time Intellipool Network Monitor version 4 is now available for download. Version 4 highlights include: Configurable dashboards. Build your own dashboards so you see what’s important to you Network maps Network weather maps including real time information Search engine to tame even the largest network monitoring job Quicker [...]

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The problem with the implicit contract in open source

August 6, 2009

One of the things I’ve found very interesting about being involved in open source, and indeed business for that matter, is customer expectations. Just because you give something away does not mean that you or your offering will be judged more kindly as a consequence. It does not mean that there will be a lower [...]

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Drupal 6 book recommendations

July 30, 2009

As we’ve just delivered a big lump of functionality onto our website using Drupal, in fact everything is now managed through Drupal except this blog, I thought that you might appreciate a heads up on the books we used during the development process. Getting hold of the right books early in your project will make [...]

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