IT departments deploying Voice-over-IP (VoIP) are faced with a problem: How do they deliver traditional telephone quality and reliability, over a mixed, IP-based network with many applications competing for bandwidth? Quality of Service (QOS) can help manage bandwidth, and traditional network management tools can provide performance metrics. But, wouldn’t it be nice to have the […]

There are a small number of tools out there that, once used, become so indispensable that you can’t live without them. Dameware makes such a tool. Yes, it’s that good – read on and you’ll see why. What is Dameware? Dameware (part of the SolarWinds family of products) built their reputation on two products: NT Utilities, […]

Your network is filled with firewalls, servers, and routers capable of detecting and log security threats. But when a threat comes up, too many admins rely on a slow process of manually wading through tens of thousands of log entries to find and correlate a small number of log entries. The result? Slow detection and […]

Once you have a good network monitoring system in place, what’s next? Many organizations have a gap around configuration, compliance, and inventory management. They know which routers and switches are up or down, but don’t necessarily know useful information like which admins made recent changes (and why!), which devices are mis-configured or running old code, […]