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Cool Custom KPI Feature from SevOne

By NMS Admin on December 30, 2013

While toying around with the SevOne performance management product the other day, I came across a really cool feature that I hadn’t noticed before. This feature allows you to create your own KPIs for monitoring, reporting, and alerting – even when those KPIs don’t exist in the MIB of the monitored device. Let me explain… […]

SevOne 5.3 vs. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Comparison

By NMS Admin on November 8, 2013

Accurately comparing network management platforms is no easy task. Enterprise-class network management solutions often take completely different technical approaches to monitoring the network.  The network admin’s requirements are also broadening year over year as more and varied infrastructure is dropped on their plate, including virtualized infrastructure, storage, line-of-business application performance and uptime. Many environments have multiple monitoring […]

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10 Website Performance Indicators Every Website Owner Should Be Monitoring

By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on May 24, 2011

The following is a guest post by: Dirk Paessler, founder/CEO, Paessler AG 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 want […]

The Best Free NetFlow Analyzer Tools for Windows

By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on December 31, 2010

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.

Heading Off Trouble with Exchange Email Servers

By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on September 24, 2010

Email performance and reliability are essential in today’s business world. If your network management solution supports WMI, you can easily leverage it to manage Exchange servers with these tips from Ken Heller of Kratos Networks.