Autodiscovering new devices added to your network
For large and rapidly evolving environments, minor oversights can snowball into bigger performance and security issues—making logging devices manually unrealistic.
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N-sight Monthly Release Roundup August-September 2025
In the latest N-sight update, Brian Mackie highlights new features and upcoming changes. Users can now access detailed device information, including TPM chip data, CPU, memory, and Azure subscription details, along with utilization graphs that track trends over time. A chronological activities log will soon be added, featuring blue screen events and user login/logout information. Additionally, a new tagging feature allows for custom device labels, and enhancements to patch management capabilities are on the way, including support for Linux and Mac devices.
What is API-First Networking?
When you build your network with APIs at its core, you give your business a competitive edge. Here’s how to do it. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become ubiquitous with modern networks for good reason. As companies use more service providers, endpoints, and software platforms, APIs help them get the most possible utility from their data with the least possible effort.
Monitoring Encrypted Network Traffic
How do you spy on a secret message? That's the challenge for network monitoring tools like Suricata today. Encryption is essential for privacy, but it creates massive blind spots for security. Dive into the modern-day cat-and-mouse game of monitoring encrypted traffic. How do you deal with security blind spots in your network?
How to Perform Ping Tests: Different Tools and Techniques
If you’re a remote worker struggling with video calls, or a gamer noticing lag, a quick Internet ping test using an online ping tester can give you a simple yes/no answer: Is my connection alive, and how fast does it respond?. But if you’re a network admin or IT professional, that’s just scratching the surface. Business networks are more complex beasts.
Zoom Troubleshooting Performance and Connection Issues: The Complete Guide
In an era of remote work and virtual meetings, Zoom has emerged as a lifeline, connecting people across distances and facilitating seamless collaboration. However, like any technological tool, it's not without its fair share of challenges. From occasional performance hiccups to frustrating connection issues, navigating the world of Zoom can sometimes be a daunting task.
How to Monitor Zoom Performance & Fix "Zoom Your Internet Connection is Unstable"
Zoom calls have become a staple of modern life, connecting us with friends, family, and colleagues from all over the world. But have you ever experienced the frustration of a laggy, glitchy Zoom call that leaves you feeling like you're in a bad sci-fi movie? Laggy video, packet loss, and jitter make it difficult to have a clear and coherent conversation over Zoom - which is why it’s important to identify these Zoom issues before your next call.
How to Identify Network Bottlenecks: From Snail Mail to Warp Speed
Welcome, network admins and IT pros, to a world where network bottlenecks become nothing more than a distant memory. In an era where the need for speed is paramount, identifying and eliminating network bottlenecks is the key to achieving warp-speed connectivity. Your network is like a bustling metropolis, with data zipping through its veins like cars on a busy highway. But suddenly, the flow slows down to a snail's pace, causing frustration and hindering productivity.
Scheduling discovery jobs for dynamic enterprise networks
Networks have evolved far beyond simple data conduits.They're now the backbone of decentralized digital enterprises, serving as critical channels for information exchange. Modern networks connect dispersed locations and devices, driving performance, security, and cost efficiency. However, decentralization also scatters assets, creates blind spots and increases operational complexity.
The Hidden Cost of Running Cloud-Hosted SD-WAN for IaaS
There are three common ways to connect your branch locations to the cloud. We break down the benefits and limitations of each. Many enterprises are executing a strategy of cloud services first, followed by application modernization – including SD-WAN. Moving toward a cloud-native architecture using containerization, microservices, or serverless architectures like SD-WAN can lower costs over time, increase scalability, reduce development cycles, and speed up time to market.