Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 22.

• High-tech careers, IT cost management and cloud computing – the emergence of cloud computing in the last few years has created demand for cloud based skills in the job market
• Managing Amazon EC2 nodes with Puppet – how to create easily create manageable Amazon EC2 instances
• The 15 most massive data breaches: An interesting analysis by Focus – an analysis of the 15 most serious data centre security breaches
• Hyperic 4.3 now released – a new version of Hyperic has been released featuring improved SNMP v3 support and richer Windows Event Logging
• OpenNMS: Sourceforge Project of the Month – June 2010 – OpenNMS voted “project of the month” on SourceForge
• Nagios Seedcamp Kicks Off – Nagios announces a competition to write the best plugin
• Demystifying The Cloud – an introduction to cloud computing
• iPRTG in a Completely New Version – Beta Testers Wanted – beta testers are wanted for the new version of iPRTG, an iPhone app for using PRTG
• WIFI Diagnostics from Windows 7 or Vista Command Prompt (by Tony Fortunato)
  – how to diagnose wireless connectivity issues using tools built into Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 21.

• Location based Traffic Reports – GeoLocations in NetFlow Analyzer
  – how GEO location of your IP addresses can help you manage your network
• Measuring Application Utilization with Wireshark – how to track an applications network usage using Wireshark
• Over 2 years of #mollom satisfaction – 2 years of a spam free website
• Astronomy and Summary Indexing – how Splunk was useful analysing astronomy data
• Is your key IT talent planning to quit in 2010? – after the recession a lot of IT people are planning to leave their employer
• Top 3 Correlation techniques for Real-time IT Operations – techniques for correlating events and reducing alert duplication

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 20.

• The Fastest way for Analyzing Network Spikes – NetFlow Analyzer – how to analyse network traffic spikes in near real time
• OpenNMS 1.6.11 and OpenNMS 1.7.90 Released – new versions of both the development and stable releases of OpenNMS
• Network Security Review – CACE Pilot – a review of CACE Pilot software
• op5 Monitor on Android and iPhone – OP5 now has a handy client running on iPhone and Android based phones
• ntop and Plixer Partnered for Advanced Flow-based Monitoring – Plixer has teamed up with nProbe in Italy
• “Real World” Performance Comparison of CDN (Content Delivery Network) Providers – a comparison of the various CDN networks with some surprising results

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 19.

• RiverMuse Announces New Commercial Product – RiverMuse announces the release of RiverMuse Pro v2.0
• Bug #3000000 – Pandora FMS is honoured to have bug #3000000 on SourceForge
• Datacenter Barometer: Building a Cloud Ark for the Coming Data Flood – with the volume of data currently being produced where is it all going to be stored?
• Icinga introduces… Scott Evans (Icinga Marketing/Testing) – Interview with Scott Events
• SHARKFEST’10 Wireshark Developer and User Conference (by Joke Snelders) – The Wireshark conference is just a month away…
• Extending ntop using Python – NTop can now be extended using Python
• Spiceworks 4.7: Small Release, Big Impact on IT – late last week SpiceWorks released Spiceworks 4.7

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 18.

• Europe 2010 – OUCE Day 1 – Tarus Balog’s commentary on day one of the OpenNMS European Conference in Frankfurt, Germany
• Whats New in NetFlow Analyzer 8 !! – ManageEngine announce the release of version 8 of their NetFlow Anaylzer product
• Happy Birthday Icinga and THANK YOU ALL! – Icinga celebrates its first birthday
• 10 Gbit PF_RING-based Hardware Packet Filtering and Balancing Previewed at the Intel Europe Conference – Luca Deri and Joseph Gasparakis preview the new PF_RING-based technology they have co-developed that allows Linux users to fully exploit the hardware capabilities of the newest Intel X520 10 Gbit adapter
• Flash is Dead — and so is Client-side Java – why Monolith Software won’t be using Flash or Java
• Wireshark 1.2.8, 1.0.13, and 1.3.5 Released – a whole load of new Wireshark releases…
• Spiceworks at Interop: Then and Now – Spiceworks comparing their first attendance at Interop in 2008 with the latest one in 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 17.

• Detecting Trojan and Worm with Capsa Network Analyzer – how to detect trojans and worm infections using a packet capture tool
• Review of Dualcomm 5-Port Pass-Through Port Mirroring Switch (by Betty DuBois) – a review of Dualcomm Technology’s 5-Port 10/100/1000 PoE pass-through port mirroring switch
• Splunk for WebSphere Application Servers – using Splunk to monitor the health of WebSphere
• 7 Key Considerations for Managing Exchange Server Health and Status – advice for managing Microsoft Exchange
• Zabbix, the book – if you want to get the most out of Zabbix, get the Zabbix book!
• Best of Breed vs. Framework: Why Frameworks Don’t Work for Mid Market Customers – Rivermuse outline why framework products aren’t ideal for medium sized companies
• Upcoming OpenNMS Events – events where you can find the folks at OpenNMS in attendance

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 16.

• Top 5 Troubleshooting Tips for Your WMI Problems – WMI is a big part of any Windows Admins arsenal, these tips will come in handy when you need to find out why things aren’t working as they should
• Zenoss 3.0 Alpha #1 – QA Test Day April 22 – Zenoss announce the first alpha release of Zenoss Core 3.0
• RiverMuse Wins Judges Choice Award at “Under the Radar” event – Rivermuse win a Judges Choice award
• Puppet Labs wins Judges Choice: Best in show at Under The Radar – … so does Puppet …
• Conference on Nagios, NTOP @ OSS Monitoring – Italian open source network monitoring confernce in Italy featuring Luca Deri and Ethan Galstad
• ICINGA introduces… Michael Lübben – another ICINGA introduces post this time featuring the project co-founder and lead of Icinga Web
• The Changing Face of the Network: The User and IT Perspective – is 2010 going to be a year of huge change for the network?

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 15.

• The Year of the Splunk Community – recent developments in the Splunk community
• Two-tier “alert” and “event” model supports Regulatory Compliance – how having fully auditable alerts helps with regulatory compliance
• Four Stars For WhatsUp Gold Premium – a review of What’s Up Gold Premium
• Top 10 Wireshark Filters – Chris Greer explains Wireshark traffic filters
• op5 Monitor 5 is here – op5 v5 is now on general release
• Scheduling unmanage task for nodes, interfaces and applications – how to schedule downtime using Solarwinds Orion
• Datacenter Barometer: Where the Real Challenges for CodePlex Are – Brian Proffitt explores the recent appointment of Paula Hunter as first Executive Director of CodePlex

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 12.

• Data mining with Intellipool Network Monitor – an exploration of toplists in Intellipool Network Monitor
• Google maps anyone? – a user contributed script for integrating Solarwinds Orion nodes onto a Google Map
• Network monitoring evaluation – Top avoidable mistakes – highlights some of the common mistakes sys admins do when evaluating and selecting a network monitoring solution
• Photos from a day in the life at Opscode HQ – pictures taken at the recent Opscode event
• Introducing WhatsUp Gold v14.2! – a new version of What’s Up Gold has been released
• Open Data and Open Source – Open source code vs closed source used to be the struggle, now it’s open vs closed data
• RRDtool 1.4.3 – bug fixes and some rrdcached improvements – a new release of RRDTool is now available

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 11.

• Datacenter Barometer: MonitoringForge Fills Needed Role in Community – a discussion of MonitoringForge’s role in the sysadmin community
• Active directory monitoring – exploring the Active Directory monitor in Intellipool Network Monitor
• Wireshark Quick Tip: Replaying Captured VoIP Calls (by Chris Greer) – exploring the specific features built into Wireshark to assist you in resolving problems with VoIP
• Sharkfest ’10 Is Going To Be Awesome
• A Series of Unfortunate Events: Using Orion’s Syslog Server to Monitor VMware Events – monitoring VMWare events with Solarwinds Orion
• SXSWi 2010 Redux – Groundwork Open Source at SXSW