If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? This the classic query designed to place your mind into the Zen-like state known as the silent mind. Whether or not ...

Nagios has been around since 2002 and is considered stable software. It is in use by the likes of American Public Media, JP Morgan Chase and Yahoo, just to name a few. It is an enterprise-level ...

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As a facility grows and its equipment multiplies, its infrastructure becomes large and decentralized. Thus, it faces an increasing need to monitor the equipment through an easy-to-use, integrated, ...

Today’s broadcast engineers are facing challenges that seem to be ever-increasing in complexity. While systems in some areas have become more reliable and require less attention from technical ...

Cacti is one of the most powerful open source front ends for RRDtool. Jack Wallen walks you through the steps to get this up and running, so you can gain access to handy network and system graphics.

AJ Dellinger is a writer, reporter, and editor based in Madison, Wisconsin. He has been published in Wired, Gizmodo, CNET, and a variety of other publications. He has covered small business and ...

If you want information on your Windows Server 2003 devices, SNMP is still the way to go. Here's how to enable SNMP in order to inventory your system statistics and send the results to the location of ...

I have a Konica-Minolta C353 printer and I'm doing some <i>very</i> basic SNMP stuff with it, i.e. getting it to send its device description to my monitoring app. However, what I'm really interested ...

Just thinking about SNMP monitoring of Windows boxes, both XP and 2003.<BR><BR>There is what I think is an agent that comes with Windows; default not installed. And things like NET-SNMP for ...

Chances are you’ve heard about network protocol in the past but likely have little idea of what it is all about. For sure right now, we can say that there are different types of network protocols ...