{"id":4192,"date":"2015-10-01T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2015-10-16T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:17:40","slug":"dilberts-take-on-network-monitoring-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poweradmin.com\/blog\/dilberts-take-on-network-monitoring-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert’s take on Network Monitoring Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dilbert's<\/a>DILBERT \u00a9 2012 Scott Adams. Used By permission of UNIVERSAL UCLICK. All rights\u00a0reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given that Dilbert said this in 2012, his stance is that good network monitoring software takes a solid\u00a028 man-years to create. \u00a0Joel Spolsky famously said\u00a0\u201cgood software takes ten years\u201d<\/a>. \u00a0We tend to agree. \u00a0PA Server Monitor<\/a>\u00a0is now more than 11 years old, and if you multiply by the number of engineers involved, the number of man-years is well beyond 28 years! \u00a0And, it has\u00a0just\u00a0hit another milestone: version 6 is out!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Version 6<\/span><\/h2>\n

We\u2019re very proud of this new version. \u00a0It\u2019s been in Beta for about 9 months and has been receiving very good feedback. \u00a0It\u2019s been monitoring tens of thousands of se\"celebrate\"rvers and devices, run monitors millions of times and is holding up exceptionally well.
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Some of the new features that we\u2019ve been getting requests for and are happy to provide are:<\/span><\/p>\n