Monitoring

You can think of device roles as a template for the way that your network monitoring tool interacts with a device, ie. the configurations and monitors that it applies to the device.

Your entire IT infrastructure has to be constantly reviewed in order to ensure the health of your virtual environment. Here are some best practices you can use to ensure that your virtual environment remains stable and reliable.

For IT admins for school districts, remote learning is fickle environment that can present a number of unique challenges.

If network infrastructure is the backbone of modern business, the servers it connects would be the brain. Enterprises rely on these machines for data storage, processing and associated business apps. It comes as no surprise, then, that maintaining server health is one of your highest priorities.

In this blog post, we take you through a few of the ways you can use WhatsUp gold to monitor physical servers—from server health to utilization.

The latest release of WUG provides a variety of new options to visualize state changes, and view and sort data.

Device Roles that will make your life easier in the long run by giving you consistency in monitoring across your infrastructure.

When pilots talk about things getting busy in the cockpit, they mean something very specific: clanging alerts, paralyzing uncertainty and the ground getting closer.

In this article, we will explain the basic concept of Ping, how the Ping utility works, and how it is utilized in the context of networking and network monitoring.

AWS X-Ray is a powerful tool offered by Amazon that enables developers to debug production and distributed applications, especially in a microservices architecture.

We are happy to share that Progress has been recognized for another year by IP Insider, a leading tech publication in Germany.

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to reset an Azure VM’s password using the Azure VM agent. Remember this trick the next time you forget your admin password!

Network protocols are kind of a big deal when it comes to keeping critical infrastructure up and running. Here's what you need to know about the basic protocols.

Virtualization has become nearly ubiquitous in business as a way to cut IT expenses, enhance security, and increase operational efficiency.

SD-WAN (the software-defined wide-area network) offers a way to create a private network from widespread consumer internet connections without limiting their connectivity.

Instead of sharing out each of my tips on enabling and configuring SNMP on Windows, Cisco, Linux, Unix and ESXi in separate posts, I've amassed them here for a one-stop-shop.

When employees are working from home, how do you know they are actually working? Some bosses have turned to monitoring software to keep track of productivity.

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft® software solution to directory services. It locates resources and can handle millions of objects in a single domain, but it can also do a lot more.

So, you want to monitor WebEx with WhatsUp Gold? Allow me to help by sharing my story of figuring this out.

Whether you’re at home or in the office, a network monitoring tool will give you the network visibility necessary to keep a proactive approach to solving network issues—even from your couch.