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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.

How Cisco ACI and AppDynamics Deliver a Great End-User Experience

Cisco ACI-AppDynamics integration helps business-critical applications run flawlessly. By providing deep visibility and powerful correlation across the application and network, this seamless interaction enables teams to deliver a positive end-user experience.

MSP Network Basics: What is SNMP?

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is vital for managing networks. Without it, network management tools can't identify devices, monitor network performance, or keep track of changes to the network. If you want to learn more about this important protocol, start with this SNMP primer featuring Steve Petryschuk, Auvik's director of system engineering.

Kubernetes Networking with Calico

In this post, I’m going to cover some of the fundamentals of how Calico works. I really don’t like the idea that with these Kubernetes deployments, you simply grab a yaml file and deploy it, sometimes with little to no explanation of what’s actually happening. Hopefully, this post will servce to better understand what’s going on.

Monitoring Unicast Flooding Traffic

Unicast Flooding Traffic is associated with the learning process of network switches. In fact, with this method, switches identify the MAC addresses of the devices that are accessible by each of their ports, thus constructing a table that will then be used to decide the destination of each frame that arrives at the switch.