Re: How to Monitor Effectively
Link saturation - absolutely. MPLS links especially.URT - we don't monitor, per se - but we are collecting the info and can view it. I'm the only in our team who has even a passing interest at this...
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We monitor link saturation as well. I have a page created that gives me 24 hr. 1 week and 1 month polling for WAN circuits. I created that one before updating our NPM version and they changed to the...
View ArticleRe: Is QoS one of the killer OpenFlow apps?
The thing is, no one knows the future of OpenFlow, it's too new and still extremely green. It's the hype train in full steam ahead mode. However, it is being pushed aggressively into production...
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APC Netbotz devices _http://www.apc.com/products/category.cfm?id=17
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Link saturation: Not really as such. We'll monitor uplinks on physical uplink ports so we can have something to possibly point to when users complain of slow response times. After we get such...
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Monitoring server access ports:There was some debate here at first regarding whether to do so or not.All the pros of doing so could equally be applied to any resource anywhere in the environment if a...
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A few I have used: http://www.jacarta.com/Products/interSeptor-For-Data-Centres-and-IT-Rooms.aspx http://www.mayflex.com/_assets/downloads/Mayflex%20Powerstrips-Power%20Hawk%202.pdf...
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Basically anything I monitor outside our own equipment has alerts that go to the team that manages that item.If it's a server, or app - these would be related to a specific department. So something...
View ArticleRe: Is QoS one of the killer OpenFlow apps?
All depends on how it's implemented. WEP sounded like a good idea at one time.
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Great! I'm glad I can provide food for thought. I've worked in one multi-vendor environment or another for the entirety of my 15+ years in Networking (aside from a 6 month consulting gig in 1999 at...
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So in reference to monitoring data center ports, Solarwinds provides a wonderful feature that lets you monitor but not monitor the data center access ports. Confusing? It's called the unplugged...
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We also monitor Link Saturation. When you have partial T-1s you need to do this. otherwise we have issues. Most of the times it is something that is not supposed to be generating traffic is. We find...
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Tips to use more secure protocols for SNMP and configuration backup?
We're using Orion NPM, NTM, NCM and UDT. have used basic Telnet and SNMP V2 for configuration management and device monitoring (switches mostly). Now, as part of other bigger changes, we're planning...
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We use radius to authenticate against our Cisco devices, using ssh, so for backups etc we have a domain account for solarwinds which is in the radius group and allowed to authenticate against our cisco...
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Just to complete this discussion here's a link to a document discussing Groups and Dependencies:http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/Groupsanddependencies.pdf
View ArticleRe: Not without my IPv6
None; as it is blocked on B/E devices, we gave it the ole, 'I thought I told you I never wanna see you in here!' Devices are remediated to IPv4... All the Firewalls I have put in place had to go with...
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I think the fundamental challenge here is that the arguments for IPv6 still fail to outweigh any real compelling reason to move away from IPv4 in the typical enterprise organization. While IPv6 is...
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Nick- What I'm seeing is the foot dragging has actually helped. There are now lots of mature substitutes to dual-stack like tunneling, but even better, pure dual-stack, wether just to your web...
View ArticleRe: What NPM Tips and Tricks do You Have?
A few items used simply can add some complexity to your view.. Custom Properties; We have these for locations (Region, Building, Floor) but also for Power connections and Alert Supression. The...
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