http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog Network Monitoring and Managment with CommandCenter NOC Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:23:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CC-NOC provides real-time information about network enabled printers by leveraging the best attributes of synthetic transactions and SNMP. A highly configurable notification capability enables administrators to be informed via email, pager or mobile phone about printer status changes and problems. Information about any SNMP enabled node is retrieved with standard ... http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/network_monitoring/monitoring-networked-printers-with-raritan-commandcenter-noc/ A list of my Top Five Network Monitoring Reports - No IT organization should do without. Network Report Card - Provides an overview of how your network performed in terms of availability, security grade and network traffic over a certain period of time. This report should be ... http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/network_monitoring/network-monitoring-reports/ Network monitoring toolset that monitors the per­formance and availability of your heterogeneous network - keeping close watch on your Cisco Network Elements, Windows® Systems, Linux®/UNIX® Servers, and other network devices such as firewalls and network printers. If an outage is detected, or a threshold is crossed, the appropriate staff members ... http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/network_monitoring/cisco-network-monitoring/ The NCSU's Lone Wolf was eliminated from the DARPA Grand Challenge they were in the top 20, but did not make it to the finals. According to a phone interview with the News And Observer, the Insight Racing team was not given a reason for being eliminated, but they ... http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/development_testing/well-at-least-nc-state-beat-carolina/ A few of us here in the development team are graduates of NC State University. We are excited to hear that the "Lone Wolf" is continuing to qualify for the Urban Challenge Final Event at the DARPA Grand Challenge. Be sure to follow them at the ... http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/network_monitoring/go-pack/ According to ITIL, An IT incident is an event which is not part of standard IT operations which causes or may cause, an interruption to, or a reduction in, the quality of service. Your objective is to restore an incident to full service as soon as possible. Your problem in ... http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/network_monitoring/improving-incident-management-in-an-smb/ I remember the first time I saw the CC-NOC in action. A test unit had come up to our corporate HQ to give us a chance to play around with it. The next thing I knew, we were all crowded around a desk, looking at a breakdown of what ... http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/network_monitoring/where-is-your-traffic-headed/ The basic value proposition of virtualization is the same for an SMB as it is for a larger enterprise. An SMB is just as likely to deploy virtualization to consolidate servers, improve server utilization, improve disaster recovery, consolidate legacy applications and reduce server provisioning time. The SMB experiences ... http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/virtualization/smb-virtualization/ The following web site by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center provides a comprehensive list of network monitoring tools.  I suggest network administrators start their product searches on this site to find out the available network monitoring solutions. http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/network_monitoring/network-monitoring/ Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008 has been published by networkworld.com.  These are the technologies that are potentially game changers for companies so it is advised that all IT people examine them.  In today's environment, you don't want to be behind the innovation curve. Number one is Green IT.  Cost ... http://www.commandcenter-noc.com/blog/index.php/virtualization/virtualization-20/