Assume that a department in your organization requests a temporary relaxation in the Access Control List (ACL) of a router in production to attend to an urgent business requirement. How do you handle this case?
ITAM – a key step in reducing operations costs
Economy is not in your control, your organization’s operation costs are! The economy curve isn’t exactly going north and it is important for you, as an asset manager, to contribute for reducing operations cost. In a recent article by Gartner titled “10 Key Actions to Reduce IT Infrastructure and Operations Costs by as Much as 25 Percent”, one of the key steps mentioned was IT Asset Management (ITAM). “ITAM by itself doesn’t reduce I&O costs; however, it is a very effective tool to identify and assess cost reduction opportunities.” IT Asset management is not only a business practice of discovering and monitoring the assets, it encapsulates much more than that – cost monitoring, history, contracts management, notifications, software asset and license management, to name a few
Workflow between Monitoring and Ticketing
An important aspect of any successful business today is a constant and consistent availability of IT Infrastructure. This boils down to a need for an IT monitoring system that can monitor the infrastructure round the clock. So what if my monitoring system is excellent
[EMA-ManageEngine Webinar]: Seven Best Practices to Optimize Application Delivery in Cloud and Hybrid Environments
With Dennis Drogseth, EMA VP of Research and Arun Balachandran, Sr. Market Analyst, ManageEngine Applications Manager Date : Thursday, September 29, 2011 Time : 8 am Pacific / 11 am Eastern 4 pm GMT Summer Time (London, GMT+01:00) Featured Speakers : Dennis Drogseth, VP of Research, EMA Arun Balachandran, Sr. Market Analyst, ManageEngine While many early cloud computing deployments favored niche infrastructure-centric services such as PaaS and storage-related services, there has been a distinct move towards a more application-service-centric model over the last 18 months.
A Tale of Two Realities: IT Managers, What
I had a lot of fun talking to Michael Dortch recently.
Effective Voice Traffic Analysis using NetFlow Analyzer
Voice traffic has spread its presence everywhere right from SMBs to large enterprises. Communication happens through VoIP at different levels right from customer support to teleconferencing to internal communication etc. VoIP has a major role in ensuring business continuity & it thus becomes a critical application that requires constant monitoring & control
Viewing your LAN IP Addresses in NetFlow Analyzer from NAT enabled routers
NAT (Network Address Translation) helps to map many Private IP address into a single public address and send the information to the internet.
Switch or router crash: How do you get the replacement unit up and running?
Planning for quickly recovering from the impact of unforeseen events is an integral part of planning for business continuity. If you are an administrator managing a large number of network devices, properly planning for disaster recovery is all the more crucial. Crash of a switch or router in production could potentially cause disruptions in the normal functioning of the network
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer now joins Cisco Developers Network as a Registered Developer
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is now officially listed in the Cisco Developers Network as a Registered Developer under the
September 2011 Patch Tuesday Bulletins are now Supported by Desktop Central
Microsoft released 5 bulletins rated Important addressing issues in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Excel addressing 15 vulnerabilities. Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday Bulletins are now supported by Desktop Central