Aaron has worked in a range of IT roles, from server and network support, to workstation administration, consulting and service management. He currently works as a network architect and consultant with the Education sector. When not madly pounding on keyboards, he can usually be found racing sailboats, or riding his motorcycle on the back roads of Vancouver Island.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on September 10, 2010
OpManager is an all-round network management system that includes features like network monitoring, alarm notification, and health reporting. Aaron covers our first review from ManageEngine.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on August 26, 2010
If you’re looking for a product that will map your network, and help manage your network connections, then check out Aaron’s review of InterMapper 5.3 from Dartware.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on August 5, 2010
Proper WAN link monitoring involves keeping track of three key metrics: availability, utilization, and latency. This tutorial provides an overview of the basics of effective WAN monitoring.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on July 27, 2010
A new version of the dopplerVUE network management system was released last week by Kratos Networks. Aimed at “business-class” users, dopplerVUE 2.1 includes features like automated discovery and mapping, fault and performance monitoring, and more.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on July 7, 2010
PathView Cloud excels at monitoring connectivity. It maintains a dashboard for each path that displays important information like Available Capacity and Latency, as well as number of hops to destination, and performance per-hop.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on June 29, 2010
One tool that has unified virtual and traditional server managment is a plugin for the WhatsUp Gold monitoring platform, called WhatsVirtual. And Ipswitch, makers of WhatsUp Gold, announced this week that an update to their WhatsVirtual plugin for WhatsUp Gold would be released on July 13, 2010. The update adds a large number of powerful features to the plugin, making it easier to monitor virtual machines more effectively.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on June 11, 2010
Ipswitch recently announced the launch of a new “Engineer’s Toolkit” for later this month. The toolkit promises to make network design, discovery, day-to-day management and troubleshooting easier by combining a wide range of common functions into a single application.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on May 19, 2010
Orion NPM 10 from Solarwinds has just dropped and its packed with new goodies including a cool mapping feature previously only available in their LANsurveyor product.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on May 8, 2010
Solarwinds has just released a new free tool: SAN Monitor. The new utility tracks storage asset information, including array name, model, manufacturer, serial number, firmware version, number of controllers, number of disks (allocated and spare), and total raw capacity.
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on April 30, 2010
The Network Device Monitor can monitor any single device on your network using SNMP. It will monitor any SNMP variable on that device – so for instance you could monitor bandwidth use on your routers, or disk space on your servers. Aaron walks through the features…
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on April 27, 2010
What is SNMP and how can it be used to manage your network and devices? Aaron covers the basics of SNMP and simple applications for the protocol. A must read for new network administrators…
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on April 20, 2010
If you run a mid-sized business, you may have found it hard to find good systems management software that will monitor and patch your servers, generate reports, and deploy software to workstations. Microsoft believes they have the fix for that with System Center Essentials 2010…
By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on April 13, 2010
Aaron reviews WhatsUp Gold Premium edition. How does it stack up against the competition? Is the What’sUP Gold licensing model a better value? Learn More…
