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First look into Applications Manager’s RabbitMQ monitoring

Enterprise applications typically share data with other peer applications and provide a
unified set of functionality. The communication across applications is
facilitated by messaging systems which holds producers and consumers
loosely coupled. The advantage of messaging system is that it doesn’t
warrant both sender and receiver to be available at the same time to
communicate with each other and also ensures flexible,reliable and
active delivery of messages across the applications. There has been a
flurry of messaging systems over the past two decades from different
vendors ranging from  Microsoft to IBM. RabbitMQ is a recent player in
the middleware to join this race. 

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EventLog Analyzer – a perfect log management tool

Until recent years, enterprise IT infrastructure comprised of a few basic network devices. IT managers used simple tools to collect generated logs and analyzed them manually to generate log reports. IT heads and administrators viewed log management more as a means to monitor devices than as an aid for securing the network.


With ever-increasing security threats over the recent years, log management has evolved as an integral part of organization’s security. However, the simple log management tools and procedures are not sufficient anymore for the following reasons.

• Today’s new breed of advanced technologies like VPN, Network Virtualization make the network complex, by adding new and modern devices. Adding more devices means more logs; such voluminous log data cannot be analyzed using simple tools. 

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Have you hugged your IT person today?

I have been blogging about the importance of IT as an enabler of new business opportunities for some time. I change it up once in a while, but the underlying theme remains the same: New technologies can create greater efficiencies and new business models that can drive revenue and profitability. It’s not just that there’s an opportunity to execute yesterday’s processes faster but that there may be opportunities to do things that were simply impossible to do yesterday.

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Head Geek’s Tour of Network Configuration Manager

http://www.youtube.com/v/CyuDj0ZOjh8?version=3&f=user_uploads&app=youtube_gdata

SolarWinds Head Geek Josh Stephens shows you how SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) delivers affordable, easy-to-use network configuration and change management (NCCM). Learn how to backup/deploy configs, prepare for compliance audits, and more!

You Can Learn More About the Solarwinds Software’s Product Line By Going to www.NetworkMonitoring.ca.

The original article/video can be found at Head Geek’s Tour of Network Configuration Manager

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Using Network Configuration Manager as a Trusted Inventory

http://www.youtube.com/v/2X5i-4IcGyE?version=3&f=user_uploads&app=youtube_gdata

Josh Stephens and Francois Caron discuss use cases for NCM, the SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, that relate to Network Inventory, as opposed to more typical use cases such as configuration management and backup. NCM Inventory has an automatic discovery program that can rapidly and efficiency help you building a trusted inventory of your deployed network asset (routers, switches firewalls, load balancers). NCM comes with the tools to enrich and share this trusted inventory. You can also use NCM Inventory Report to facilitate the management of your Cisco Smartnet maintenance renewal process. Visit www.Thwack.com for more information.

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Expanding Your SMB Virtualization Strategy to Include DR and Site Recovery

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You Can Learn More About the Barracuda Networks Product Line By Going to www.BarracudaNetworks.ca

The original video can be found at Expanding Your SMB Virtualization Strategy to Include DR and Site Recovery

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How-to Customize SolarWinds’ Virtualization Manager

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Customizing virtualization dashboards is a breeze using a robust search capability that enables you to search, filter and sort across collected configuration and performance attributes. This gives you incredible flexibility when creating dashboards, reports, alerts, trends and other kinds of content.

You Can Learn More About the Solarwinds Software’s Product Line By Going to www.NetworkMonitoring.ca.

The original article/video can be found at How-to Customize SolarWinds’ Virtualization Manager

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Performance Analysis with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

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Learn more about the performance analysis capabilities of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. Quickly identify the virtualization-unique performance problems in your IT environment. Virtualization has created new performance management and monitoring challenges.

You Can Learn More About the Solarwinds Software’s Product Line By Going to www.NetworkMonitoring.ca.

The original article/video can be found at Performance Analysis with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

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Proactive Capacity Planning with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

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Take charge of your capacity planning using SolarWinds Virtualization Manager’s what-if analysis and planning tools. The virtual capacity planning and management capabilities in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager enable you to efficiently plan, manage, budget, purchase and report on the capacity of shared resource pools in your virtualized environment.

You Can Learn More About the Solarwinds Software’s Product Line By Going to www.NetworkMonitoring.ca.

The original article/video can be found at Proactive Capacity Planning with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

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Virtualization with Instant Recovery of VMs for SMB

http://www.youtube.com/v/77L23fUaUL8?version=3&f=user_uploads&app=youtube_gdata

You Can Learn More About the Barracuda Networks Product Line By Going to www.BarracudaNetworks.ca

The original video can be found at Virtualization with Instant Recovery of VMs for SMB

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