Friday, October 5th, 2012
We use snmp a lot, and know it well. However, not everyone of our customers has spent years working with OIDs in ASN.1, MIBs, Access types, and so on - and nor should they. (As we like to say, "Your monitoring solution should make your life easier, not harder.") So ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
We recently had a customer come into trial looking around for a new monitoring solution. This is always good for us. We love the takeaway. (Customers defecting from other monitoring systems to us.) As in most takeaway situations this customer had specific needs. Now there are the obvious ones in ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
It's still surprising to me that hardware and software manufacturers do not seem to value any kind of consistency in their management interfaces. Or maybe it's intentional, to complicate monitoring and management of their systems to encourage the purchase of the vendors own monitoring systems.
In any event, it makes the ...
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