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ipMonitor® Free Edition: Essential IT Monitoring

SolarWinds® ipMonitor® is built to be quick, affordable, and agentless monitoring software for your network, servers, and applications. ipMonitor delivers out-of-the-box visibility into essential availability and performance metrics for your critical IT environment, and includes a built-in database and web server, so you don’t need to install anything but ipMonitor.

How to monitor networks for dummies. Here is what you need

Ok, so you own a company, now what? All right, then one of the million things to keep in mind, in addition to the plant that you are going to buy for your office, is learning how to monitor networks. Think that if your computerized network stops working properly (for any reason) and the data that normally flows through it does not, the company is not functional anymore, during the whole time the disaster lasts.

How to Configure a Multicast Linux Network

In a world where consumer-level computing technology has been largely dominated by Windows, many users remain unaware of the need for administrators to configure and maintain network hardware and environments based on the Linux operating system. But Linux in its various distributions and the Unix operating system from which they derive have for decades provided the backbone for the core systems that make consumer-level computing and indeed many aspects of daily life possible.

Become an eagle-eyed network admin using OpManager's push notifications

The secret to exceptional network management is periodically identifying and diagnosing network problems. Putting your experts at the network operations center (NOC) all day watching for a device to go down isn’t the best use of your workforce’s time. There has to be a smarter way to view potential network pitfalls without being glued to the chair in your NOC.

Zero Trust Security: Supporting a CARTA approach with Network Security

Learn how to support, what Gartner has termed, a continuous adaptive risk and trust assessment (CARTA) when building a CaaS platform using Kubernetes. Network security enables microsegmentation and is a core component of a zero trust security model. It allows you to protect your workloads against threats without relying on assumptions about the network, infrastructure, and workloads.

Setting Up Your First Client in Auvik

Setting up a client in Auvik is easy and only takes a few minutes. Watch as we walk you through three simple steps to kickstart your Auvik trial—from signing up for your trial to creating your first client site in Auvik to deploying your first Auvik collector. Then, give it a try and get ready to discover more about your client’s network than you’ve ever seen before.

Traffic Analyzers: I already have a capture, and now what?

When we are faced with a performance problem related to those responsible for the applications and those responsible for the network platform, we usually think about how useful it would be to have a traffic analyzer that clarifies the real origin of the problem. Now, many times we see network analysts who after installing the tool feel overwhelmed by the amount of information it offers them.