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Free Whitepaper: Rightsizing Your Network Management Solution

By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on August 30, 2013

This free white paper discusses challenges encountered as organizations search for the most cost-effective network performance management solution for their network. Some of the challenges discussed include: How do I achieve balanced objectives of feature/function capabilities matched with cost effectiveness? How do I find a solution that keeps pace with changes in the managed environment […]

Extreme Visibility: Integrated Network, Application & Server Monitoring

By Brad Hale on August 27, 2013

Whenever there’s an application performance issue, it is not uncommon to start the blame game between network admins and system admins as to where the issue is. Network admin tend to say there’s an application issue and sys admins should resolve it while system admins ascribe it to a network issue and want the network […]

Using Advanced IT Search in Log & Event Manager

By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on May 8, 2012

As an end-to-end SIEM solution SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM) aggregates, correlates and normalizes log and event data, and stores them in one single repository for centralized management. LEM extends it functionality to allow quick and easy search of the stored event data. Let’s understand the power of this advanced, intuitive IT search that […]

How to Use IP SLA Technology to Assess WAN Performance

By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on January 16, 2012

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 […]

Quick Tips: How to Monitor Multicast Traffic with NetFlow Traffic Analyzer

By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on November 8, 2011

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

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 […]