Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Say hello to Windows 11 with Desktop Central

Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 on June 24, 2021 at its virtual launch event. Though Windows 11 will be officially available on October 5, 2021, Microsoft has shared the initial beta version with members of its Windows Insider Program. Starting October 5th, Microsoft will roll out the Windows 11 upgrade to eligible Windows 10 PCs, and pre-loaded Windows 11 will be available for sale. The latest OS offers significant improvements to security and management features.

Why Windows service monitoring is vital for optimal network performance

A network service is an application running at the network application layer and above that provides data storage, manipulation, presentation, or communication. It is often implemented using client-server or peer-to-peer architecture based on application-layer network protocols. Windows services are critical processes that support vital server functionality. Sometimes these services fail to start or they stop working.

Kubernetes Master Class Windows Container Support with Rancher

In this session, we’ll focus on the new support for Windows containers on RKE2 in Rancher 2.6, powered by Calico and containerd. Furthermore, we’ll be covering the following important aspects within this ecosystem: Lastly, you’ll get to see a demonstration of deploying Windows and Linux workloads side-by-side in Rancher, and how to scale.NET applications in Windows containers.

Windows System Monitoring Dashboard in 5 Minutes

This video demonstrates how to quickly build a dashboard to monitor a Windows system. The dashboard shows various metrics like uptime, processor and memory utilization, disk IO, network, etc. All the values are stored in InfluxDB for advanced analysis using full history. This video shows a whole end-to-end process that only takes 5 minutes. It begins with the Windows template installation and Telegraf agent installation and configuration that captures all the metrics from the monitored machine(s).

How to dynamically monitor disks in Windows with Pandora FMS

In this tutorial we're going to see how easy it is to dynamically monitor the disks of our Windows machines with Pandora FMS. To do this, we only need to have the software agent installed on these devices and use the agent plugins that are already loaded by default. We will find two options, to obtain the free space in the disks or the possibility of monitoring the occupied space in these disks. occupied on the disks.

How Windows 11 Could Impact User Experience

If you’ve been following recent tech news, you’ll know that Windows 11 is one of the hottest topics right now. Most of the conversation has been focused on users of the Home version, as Microsoft tries to get the average consumer excited with hot new features and a fresh look. But what about enterprise users who won’t have a choice in whether they upgrade or not? How are they going to feel about Windows 11?