Featured Review: System Shepherd from Absolute Performance

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Have you ever received complaints from your remote sites about poor network performance?  Do you have service level agreements with your service provider with no way to verify their performance?  This document will describe how you can address these issues using IP SLA technology. IP SLA is a feature included in the Cisco IOS software [...]

A good TFTP server should be part of every admin’s toolkit. We’ve rounded up some of the best free TFTP server applications we could find and compared them all below. But first some basics: What is TFTP? TFTP, or Trivial File Transfer Protocol, is a very basic file transfer protocol. It is very simple, doesn’t [...]

What is it? System Shepherd is primarily geared toward network and system admins, technology executives and application owners who want to “see what the end user sees” when it comes to application and network performance, even simulating the network speeds experienced by users in different locations around the world. How is it deployed? The monitoring [...]

Quick Tips: How to Monitor Multicast Traffic with NetFlow Version 9

Problem: Streaming media applications consume a lot of bandwidth, because they use multicast to deliver content.  In most cases, the applications that are using multicast to deliver their content are not business critical applications.  However, there are time s when streaming media IS the mission critical app and so needs to be prioritized. Answer:  NetFlow [...]

10 Website Performance Indicators Every Website Owner Should Be Monitoring

The following is a guest post by: Dirk Paessler, founder/CEO, Paessler AG (www.paessler.com) Every website owner understands the need to keep a close eye on their site to ensure peak performance and uptime, and thankfully, network monitoring technologies make this task relatively simple. The challenge arises in determining what exactly needs to be monitored. You [...]

Review: Paessler PRTG 8 Network Monitor

With German-engineered features ranging from basic SNMP monitoring and alerting, to Netflow collection and packet capture, Paessler’s PRTG is well worth taking a look at. Aaron peels back the layers of PRTG in his latest product review.

5 Free NetFlow Analyzer Tools for Windows

If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of trying to identify exactly which workstation is clogging up your network with torrent downloads, then examining NetFlow data on your network could help out. In this article we round up 5 handy free tools to help you collect and analyze NetFlow data.

Review: SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor 10.1

Aaron reviews the latest version of SolarWinds’ flagship product, Orion NPM 10.1 and walks through the new features and functionality included.

Review: Spiceworks 5.0 Free Network Management Software

Aaron combs through the new features and functionality in Spiceworks 5.0, the latest version of Spiceworks’ free network management suite. Find out how it stacks up.

Network Management Software Autumn Smackdown

We’ve stacked-up six different network management suites against each other, and let them fight it out for the championship. Which one can take-down the competition and win the title of best all-around NMS? Read on to find out.