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July 2021

DX NetOps Network Monitoring Software Helps Reduce Noise and Increase Efficiency with New Event Filters

DX NetOps 21.2 network monitoring software continues to innovate and improve the scale, speed, and simplicity of network operations with a focused set of high-value features and capabilities. The latest release of Broadcom’s DX NetOps 21.2 network monitoring software delivers expanded capabilities to monitor and assure your software-defined networking (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV) deployments.

Boosting performance with network monitoring solutions

Technological advances and emerging networking concepts are constantly shaping our IT infrastructure. Networks are no longer limited to traditional networking constraints such as its static nature, but are continually evolving to improve efficiency by spanning across wired, wireless, virtual, and hybrid IT environments. This IT evolution drives organizations to advance digitally and support computational requirements to meet their business objectives.

AWS EC2 Service Discovery with HAProxy

AWS Auto Scaling groups are a powerful tool for creating scaling plans for your application. They let you dynamically create a group of EC2 instances that will maintain a consistent and predictable level of service. HAProxy’s Data Plane API adds a cloud-native method known as Service Discovery to add or remove these instances within a backend in your proxy as scaling events occur. In this article, we’ll take a look at the steps used to integrate this functionality into your workflow.

Back to the (Monitoring) Basics | An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Session 1

Let’s start by going back to the basics of monitoring. Whether you’re new to monitoring or looking for a refresher, there’ll be something for everyone. The presenters will bring their experience monitoring small, to large, to hybrid, and beyond environments. Join the live chat to ask questions of the presenters and offer other attendees your own tips for ramping up on monitoring.

How to Troubleshoot Network Routing and Connectivity in Your AWS Environment

Your public cloud can seem like a “black box.” And when there’s a cloud networking problem, it can be tough to identify and fix it fast. Join Kentik Cloud expert, Dan Rohan, as he demonstrates how Kentik Cloud helps you proactively see and troubleshoot AWS network routing and connectivity issues quickly. What You'll Learn -- Kentik product manager Dan Rohan discusses: During in-product demonstrations, Dan shows.

SAN Performance Monitoring

A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a specialized, high-speed network that provides block-level network access to storage. SANs are typically composed of hosts, switches, storage elements, and storage devices that are interconnected using a variety of technologies, topologies, and protocols. Each computer on the network can access storage on the SAN as if they are local disks connected directly to the computer.

Troubleshoot faster with process-level app and network data

When responding to an incident, you need to quickly find the scope of the issue so you know which teams to notify and which parts of your system to investigate next—before your end users are affected. But as multiple processes use resources on each of your hosts, and interact in unexpected ways, it can be difficult to know exactly what is causing an issue—especially if those processes are running off-the-shelf software.

5 things you can do to improve your customer support (part 2)

From my previous blog, I’m going to continue the list of five things you can do to improve your technical service delivery to your customers (if you didn’t read the last post, you can catch up on what you missed here (link)). In the following three points, I focus on the role automation can play.

Five Problems Your Current Network Monitoring Can't Solve but Network Observability Can

Public and hybrid cloud has led to a new era of agility, scale and performance, particularly for the networking that underlies enterprise applications. Yet, more than 80% say their network monitoring hasn’t kept up with major problems that need to be solved. A new approach is required – it’s network observability. Join Kentik co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman as he discusses how to reduce networking issues and risks while continuing to allow your organization to innovate at the speed of cloud.

The Race to MEC-anize the Mobile Network

Mobile network operators (MNOs) continue to show confidence in the potential of Multi-Access Edge Compute (MEC) and a more open 5G network. At the same time, they face new challenges working in an open ecosystem. MNOs are uniquely positioned to deliver on the full promise of edge computing with end-to-end applications, public cloud infrastructure and hybrid network deployments. In this webinar, you will learn how MNOs can maximize network investments and unlock new revenue streams by leveraging a combination of analytics, orchestration and MEC applications.

Networks These Days: Boosting Network Visibility in Complex Environments Whitepaper

Networking used to be significantly simpler. Users would sit within a building using a company-issued device with clear visibility and control over the network. Networks have grown more complex, with users bringing their own devices onto the network, employees working remotely, organizations increasingly relying on software-as-a-service applications, and businesses adopting more hybrid IT environments.

SolarWinds Completes Spin-Off of its MSP Business; N-able, Inc. Begins Trading as Independent, Publicly Traded Company

Following the separation, which was completed on July 19, 2021, N-able will provide cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers, enabling them to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises.

What Is Network Management? A Comprehensive Introduction

Network management is the process that helps you know the working state of your network. It also enables you to fix various discovered or undiscovered network problems. In today’s networks, it’s a complicated exercise to monitor and maintain how well your network is functioning. Network management involves so many different components that you need the right people, technologies, and tools to do it well.

3 reasons to use network diagram software

Due to the evolution of IT systems, the recent shift to a hybrid workforce, changing client requirements, and other reasons, network monitoring has become much more complex. IT admins need to visualize the entire network infrastructure effortlessly. Gaining visibility into the network makes it easy to spot patterns, proactively troubleshoot faults, ensure the availability of critical devices 24/7, and more.

How Traffic Engineering Can Lead to a Smooth Transition to 5G

Communications Service Providers around the world have experienced an unprecedented explosion in demand for bandwidth due to several driving forces including more video streaming, the growing popularity in areas like cloud gaming and the increasing move to the cloud to name a few.

What to Look for in a Network Traffic Visibility Solution

As company infrastructures now sprawl across several different environments, additional tools need to be added to the portfolio. But adhering to the traditional approach of focusing on individual devices, their health, performance, and availability, only aggravates its downsides; i.e. visibility blind spots, tool disparity, and therewith connected “swivel-chair” management. The problem calls for increased network traffic visibility that does not come at the cost of extra work.

The NetOps Expert - Episode 1: The Release of DX NetOp 21.2

In this episode of The NetOps Expert, Broadcom’s Nagesh Jaiswal and Jeremy Rossbach discuss why the latest release of DX NetOps 21.2 network observability software comes at the perfect time when the pandemic has created enormous demands on today’s networks and network operations teams.

How you can harden your N-central server

My colleague Lewis Pope, our head security herd, wrote an excellent blog last week about hardening N-able™ RMM. I thought it prudent, in light of recent developments, to do the same for the N-able N-central® product. A lot of it is common knowledge, but I wanted to put together a checklist so you can review the security of your N-central platform and ensure you’re meeting some of these best practices.

What's New In DX NetOps Spectrum Network Monitoring Software

DX NetOps 21.2 network monitoring software continues to innovate and improve the scale, speed, and simplicity of network operations with a focused set of high-value features and capabilities. Exciting new enhancements include increased monitoring scale, telemetry support, expanded SDN and cloud technology coverage, and usability and security updates.

Dealing with Rogue DHCP Servers

You’ve probably happened across this little conundrum at least once or twice—troubleshooting a network issue where users are connecting to the network, but they aren’t able to access any resources or the internet. You start going through your troubleshooting workflow: check physical layer, data link layer, network layer… and there’s the problem. The device has an IP address, but it’s not an IP address you’d expect to see on your network.

Why should my business consider private and direct connections to Tencent Cloud?

Tencent Cloud is among a number of Chinese tech giants making an impact in the enterprise cloud sector. In this blog, we look at how businesses can maximise the potential of their Tencent Cloud instance using direct connections through Console Connect.

What is Network Monitoring | Obkio

What is Network Monitoring? We talk a lot about monitoring Network Performance, but what exactly does that mean? Let’s quickly go over the vocabulary surrounding network monitoring. When we talk about traditional network monitoring, we often refer to Fault Monitoring or Device Monitoring. Network monitoring covers a vast range of techniques. Network Performance Monitoring differs from traditional monitoring because performance is monitored.

Push Notifications with HAProxy Edge - The HAProxy ADN

500 customers in 15 countries. 200 Billion push notifications delivered yearly. With over five years of experience in the industry, 500 customers and over 200 billion push notifications delivered each year, Batch.com prides itself as one of the world’s leading Mobile-First Customer Engagement Platform. Their motto “Keep pushing” exemplifies this, since their platform delivers push notifications to some of the world’s most prominent names in any industry.

DHCP scope

It’s possible to have more than one DHCP server on the same network and still have everything work right, with no conflicts and no dropped packets or IP requests. It’s really not that hard to pull together, either, but there are some things to know, and some things to consider before we investigate that situation. For this blog, we’ll put some of the overlooked facets of DHCP in bold text. Let’s take a look.

Achieving Multi Cloud Integration With SD WAN

The adoption of a multi-cloud approach is inevitable. Yet many struggle with the transition to multi-cloud due to legacy MPLS VPN networks, which weren’t designed for the Cloud. In this video, we explain how we’ve helped customers to solve this problem utilizing SD-WAN to eliminate complexity and deliver a cloud-first architecture.

DX NetOps 21.2 Network Monitoring Software Continues to Improve Visibility with Expanded SD-WAN, SDDC, and SD-WiFi Coverage

DX NetOps 21.2 network monitoring software continues to innovate and improve the scale, speed, and simplicity of network operations with a focused set of high-value features and capabilities. The solution collects data (network faults, performance, events, and alarms) from SDN and WiFi controllers and orchestrators to deliver deep visibility into the health and performance of your modern network deployments. Additionally, the solution correlates data from different network streams.

OpManager: Network visualization tool that turns data into insights

Information is one of an organization’s most important assets. In the global wide area network (GWAN), operations of all sizes store, change, and exchange their business data. Similar to how the meaning of digital data sharing has evolved, aspects like data availability and security have taken on important new meanings as well. Today’s IT administrators need to ensure the network is stable.

Upgrade Alert: Test Your Internal Infrastructure with Enhanced Private Location Monitoring

External servers need to be monitored but it’s your backend infrastructure that supports them. Looking for a reliable way to monitor your internal networks? You’re in luck! Uptime.com Private Location monitoring is just the tool for you.

Lights out for SDH: What you need to know but were afraid to ask

Although SDH has been hugely successful, and we have learned a huge amount from it, we have now reached the point where supply is end of life. Fortunately, we now have technologies that deliver equal or better performance at a much lower cost. However, migrating legacy SDH services onto these new technologies can prove to be extremely expensive. Watch this webinar on-demand for.

5 Scenarios Where An Agile Networking Model Can Benefit Your Business

It is not just network performance that is important to today’s CIOs and network managers. Critical IT workflows and network traffic are rapidly growing and changing all the time, which is why enterprise networking needs to be more flexible and responsive than ever before. Here we look at a number of scenarios where a more agile networking model could better support the needs of a business…

HAProxy Configuration Basics: Load Balance Your Servers

Learn how to set up basic load balancing using the HAProxy configuration file. If you’re new to using the HAProxy load balancer, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to configure HAProxy for basic load balancing. I am assuming that you’ve already installed the software. If not, there are several ways to do so.

Out-Of-The-Box Zero Touch Network Monitoring

AI monitoring technologies have the potential to introduce significant cost savings for CSPs. Based on machine learning and fully autonomous, these monitoring solutions provide high ROI by dramatically reducing Time to Detection (TTR), Time to Resolution (TTR), the total number of alerts, and the number of false positives and negatives.

Are 400GZR+ Pluggables an Embedded 800G Giant Killer?

We are now at the start of an era where 400GbE is breaking out of data centers and displacing 100GbE as the dominant client interface requiring wide-area optical transport. This is resulting in 400G lanes becoming the new building block of optical networks to transport existing 100GbE and growing 400GbE client traffic, for both metro and long haul applications.

The Big Book of Selling Data Protection Ebook

If your SMBs don't seem to care about their backup solution, change the conversation to one about data protection to help increase recurring revenue. Painting a picture of the cost a worst-case scenario would have on your customer's business can help drive them to sign up for proactive, managed data protection services. Comprehensive data protection services can include safeguarding your customer's data against compromise and accidental loss. This helps ensure their data is immediately recoverable with minimal downtime while providing personalized services with data security, privacy, and legal requirements in mind.