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?
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
ISP and Enterprise Billing in NetFlow Analyzer-Part 1
This blog post is about Billing with NetFlow using NetFlow Analyzer which is quite a rarity in any other product of its kind in the market. Billing is a major feature available in the Professional Plus and Enterprise editions ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
[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
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
[Webinar]: What you need to know about Applications Manager Version 10.0
We recently released Applications Manager Version 10.0 and want to demonstrate to you how the new features work. For this purpose, we are organizing webinar sessions where we will discuss release 10.0 in depth
Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for September 2011 Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released their advance notification for September 2011 patch Tuesday. Microsoft will release 5 bulletins on September 13 , all of them are rated as Important Vulnerability Impact 3 bulletins addresses Remote Code Execution 2 bulletins addresses Elevation of Privilege Affected Products: All supported Microsoft operating systems Office 2003, 2007, 2010 (Excel) Groove Server 2007 SharePoint Workspace 2010 Excel Viewer Office Compatibility Pack 2007 SharePoint Server 2007, 2010 Office Forms Server 2007 Groove Server (Data Bridge Server) 2007, 2010 Office Web Apps 2010 (Excel) SharePoint Services 2.0, 3.0 SharePoint Foundation 2010 Once the bulletins are released, the Patch Assessment team at Desktop Central will test all the patches pertaining to these bulletins and update their central patch database at the earliest. Update: Adobe has also released an advance notification that they would release an update on Sep 13, 2011
DNS Network Hacking on UK sites
It is one of the most popular technology news site in UK and worldwide, The Register. The first news I read was The Register Hacked posted by a fellow men Chris Woollard but later it came to light that it was not the site but the DNS (Domain Name Server) which got hacked. Along with it the sites Coca Cola, UPS, Telegraph Newspaper were been cracked and displayed a black page stating