Category: Monitoring
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Blocking USB Drives For Work From Home Employees
With so many people working from home, the perimeter of corporate data safety has suddenly grown very large, in many cases encompassing employee home computers. Data loss prevention (DLP) was challenging enough already, but now it takes on even more importance. One way that data can escape the corporate network is by […]
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Monitoring Hybrid Multi-Cloud Networks
As more and more businesses move their servers to the cloud, it makes it more difficult to monitor the status of networks and other such events typically tracked and monitored in traditional in-house server environments. In recent years, companies have turned to a wide array of hybrid multi-cloud monitoring tools. It is not uncommon […]
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The Top 8 Best Practices for Windows File Server Auditing
Windows file server auditing is a great way to monitor what is going on with all the files stored on your company’s servers. You can find out who is accessing files, creating new files, deleting files, copying files, and moving files. To tap into the benefits of Windows file server auditing, you must first understand […]
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Great Monitoring Article
We frequently get people asking us for some best practice advice. Today I came across a Google article that is well written and gives some great advice on setting up monitoring. It’s available at: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/monitoring-distributed-systems/
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Implementing 3rd Party Fail Over with the Service Monitor
We have a customer with a scenario where a set of services run on SERVER1 -or- SERVER2. If any service in a set fails, everything in the set should be stopped and the entire set should be started on the other server. Below I’ll describe how to implement this. In my example I’ll assume […]
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How to Monitor Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Networks
By Des Nnochiri Most enterprises now use two or more cloud service providers, and 35% use up to five monitoring tools to keep tabs on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. Even before organizations began shifting software and IT infrastructure to the cloud, a typical business would use four to ten tools just to monitor […]
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Computing Memory Usage According to Task Manager
When you look at Task Manager, it’s hard to compare it to any counter you see in Performance Monitor. The reason is there are many ways to discuss memory usage and it’s cousin free memory. If you think about it, you really don’t want your computer to have free memory laying around. That would represent […]
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Almost Free Remote Support / Remote Access Tool
Executive Summary: Practically unlimited remote desktop support / remote access for a one time cost of $125! Just install the remote agent and you can access devices at the remote agent’s site. It just works! Really? Sounds like a scam? No, we’ve had this underappreciated feature for years. Time to get the word out […]
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Five Multi-Platform Network Administration Tools
By Des Nnochiri The terms “omni-channel” and “multi-platform” may be used to describe many of the network operations or customer interactions of today’s businesses, and the administration of these operations must be wide-ranging and comprehensive to enable organizations to keep pace. For the network administrator, this can mean juggling a variety of conditions […]
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