Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

Cisco’s Meraki purchase indicates value of ‘Cloud Managed’ approach to AP configuration and monitoring

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

‘Meraki’ may not be the best known name in networking, but their technology is going to touch you soon if it hasn’t already.  Meraki was just acquired by Cisco in November for a cool $1.2 billion to incorporate into their new Cloud Networking Group. Cisco is predicting explosive growth in cloud ...

Cisco switch temperature problems solved by newbie

Monday, September 24th, 2012

As the new hire here at LogicMonitor brought in to support the operations of the organization, I had two immediate tasks: Learn how LogicMonitor's SaaS-based monitoring works to monitor our customer's servers, and at the same time, learn our own infrastructure. I've been a SysA for a longer than I care ...

Avoiding a network outage with Cisco monitoring

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Last night our ops team (of which I am a member) got paged about the CPU load on a Cisco 3560 switch in a new datacenter, late at night.  My initial reaction was "We don't need this alert escalated to pagers or phones- 3560's switch and route in hardware, so ...