5 Best Cisco Switch Monitoring Tools for 2025
In this article, we'll review the 5 best Cisco Switch monitoring tools for 2025. We'll provide an overview of switches, monitoring, and how to choose the best tool for you.
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SolarWinds Observability Self Hosted 2024.4 Expanded Device Support and Enhanced Wireless Monitoring
Discover the latest features in SolarWinds version 2024.4! This update brings support for a variety of new network devices, including Fortinet SD WAN, Ruckus, Juniper, Arista, and Extreme Networks wireless access points, plus Meraki switch support via API integration. Join Crystal Taylor, SolarWinds Evangelist, as she takes you through the new wireless monitoring capabilities and shows how your network management just got easier. Watch now to optimize your network oversight and stay ahead with these powerful enhancements!
SolarWinds Observability Self Hosted 2024.4: New Cloud Monitoring for Azure and AWS Databases!
Explore the powerful new features in SolarWinds version 2024.4, now supporting expanded cloud monitoring capabilities! Crystal Taylor, SolarWinds Evangelist, walks you through the latest updates, including Azure Managed Instance, Azure MySQL, Azure PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for SQL Server. See firsthand how PostgreSQL and RDS instances are monitored, showcasing detailed charts and metrics like Log IOs, physical data reads, and memory usage. Upgrade now to take full advantage of these new insights and optimize your cloud database performance.
Unlocking the Power of UIMAPI: Automating Probe Configuration
The UIMAPI is a RESTful API. With UIMAPI you can programmatically perform almost any action in your DX UIM environment. Using the Swagger front-end as a guide, you can manually execute REST endpoints. However, many customers would rather use a program to automate these actions.
Network Observability: Mastering Infrastructure Data for Smarter IT
If you want to know exactly what’s on your network and how it’s all connected in real time, then network observability is the answer. Network observability pulls data from sources across your network infrastructure to model a detailed view of your systems and how they interact. This lets you understand exactly what’s happening on your network at any given moment so you can optimize performance.
How To Install WhatsUp Gold: Standard Workflow
This video steps through the Standard installation process for WhatsUp Gold. Find more information on WhatsUp Gold.
Types of Intrusion Detection Systems: Network vs. Host-Based IDS
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are specialized security tools that are designed to detect and respond to suspicious activities within an organization's network or on individual computer systems. Their primary objective is to identify anomalous patterns or behaviors that may indicate a security incident. These anomalies may include unauthorized access attempts, suspicious patterns in network traffic, or alterations to critical system files.
Nearly 90% of our AI Crawler Traffic is From TikTok Parent Bytedance - Lessons Learned
This month, Fortune.com reported that TikTok’s web scraper — known as Bytespider — is aggressively sucking up content to fuel generative AI models. We noticed the same thing when looking at bot management analytics produced by HAProxy Edge — our global network that we ourselves use to serve traffic for haproxy.com. Some of the numbers we are seeing are fairly shocking, so let’s review the traffic sources and where they originate.
What is Network Discovery? Find and Validate Devices on Your Network
Keeping track of all devices connected to your network is a fundamental part of effective IT management. This process, known as network discovery, is essential for identifying each device and verifying that it’s authorized and secure. Through network discovery, administrators gain visibility into the network, allowing them to monitor devices, detect potential vulnerabilities, and support ongoing network maintenance.
Boost Operational Consistency with DX NetOps
For today’s network operations teams, change is a constant. Applications, app delivery chains, software-defined and physical infrastructures, cloud services, and more are in continuous flux. Further, as organizations continue to pursue ever more strategic digital transformation efforts, the pace of this change only accelerates. These days, about the only constant is the demand being placed on network operations teams.