simple network management protocol
Training: It’s Worth the Time
TweetWhen you embark on a new adventure, including purchasing new software, it is a whirlwind of excitement and relief that is often combined with confusion and anxiety. Clearly, this apprehension isn’t going to prevent people from buying new products and services, so what’s the solution to help minimize their concern? The answer is simple – [...]
Which is better: SNMP or Syslog?
TweetCustomers frequently ask questions about the necessity of Syslog. “I have turned SNMP on and am collecting SNMP stats and alerts. Isn’t that enough?” It depends. The first answer is relatively simple; if you are monitoring solely for up/down status, well known error conditions, some performance parameters and high-level troubleshooting, then SNMP will address your [...]
Sick of manually reviewing your interfaces to visualize traffic readings? Consider the WhatsUp Gold Interface Bandwidth Tool
TweetThe WhatsUp Gold IT Management family is excited to announce an easy to use tool for reading, gathering and understanding traffic readings in real-time from a single interface with our free Interface Bandwidth tool. This application will allow you to specify a target device and connect via SNMP to return a list of available interfaces. Just [...]
Lost without a map. . .
TweetIn my current role I speak to a lot of network engineers trying to automatically map their network topology. Actually it’s more than that, they don’t just want to discover devices, the want a port level diagram of exactly how all their switches, routers, servers, workstations, phones, firewalls . . . you get the point. [...]
Enabling SNMP on Windows Devices with WhatsUp Gold
TweetWhatsUp Gold Guru Video Need to Enable SNMP on your Windows Devices? There is a wealth of information about your Windows devices available via SNMP – from CPU, memory and disk utilization to internal temperature – but configuring Windows to let you at it can be a challenge. In this short SNMP video, WhatsUp Guru [...]
Early SNMP versions are useless as security for high-risk environments
TweetFrom Network World’s Network/Systems Management Newsletter Security products over the past decade have considerably hardened networks and systems exposed to public or other high- or elevated-risk environments. Firewalls have effectively limited connectivity to specific services and protocols, while systems exposed in elevated-risk zones have been streamlined down to their essentials, with discovery and remediation of [...]
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