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  • Automated network management alleviates staff shortages

    Automated network management offers an alternative to outsourcing and can alleviate shortages in qualified network staff. Networks keep getting more complicated, while the network management staff shortage is becoming more acute. Experienced baby boo...  Tip

  • Using VMware to test open source network analysis tools

    Find out how open source network analysis tools can be beneficial to your network monitoring strategy, and learn how you can try out the open source network protocol analyzer Wireshark inside a VMware Player Guest OS.  Tip

  • Understanding WMI -- Managing Windows networks using scripts, part 3

    Learn how Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) works and how it can be scripted using VBScript in this tip, originally published on WindowsNetworking.com  Tip

  • Network behavioral analysis project deployment

    Deploying a successful network behavorial analysis project begins with cooperation and involvement from many teams within your organization. For a technical project, some of the team members are obvious (e.g., IT operations), others are not (e.g., co...  Tip

  • Network visualization, automation: At odds?

    Visualization is a powerful tool. But in the context of network management, the prevalence of graphs may indicate that your network management system (NMS) is not ready to meet the requirements of autonomic network performance. Why so? Loki Jorgenson...  Tip

  • Phishers and spambots -- appliances that fight back

    Most email security appliances are designed to deflect unsolicited inbound SMTP traffic. In this edition of our Security Spotlight Lisa Phifer examines the benefits of deploying an email security appliance and addresses what specifically to look for ...  Tip

  • WAN acceleration scalability: Part 3

    As WAN acceleration becomes more critical to business operations, the average size and scope of deployment is steadily increasing. In this tip, we wrap up our series on considerations for scaling a WAN acceleration solution that are critical when bui...  Tip

  • NetDirector, an introduction: Free, simple server management

    NetDirector provides a free, customizable, easy way for network and systems administrators to configure network services and manage groups of Linux, Solaris, or BSD servers. The open source tool is also part of a movement towards greater interoperabi...  Tip

  • Intrusion prevention management packages

    Networks are continually under attack from hackers and viruses. Firewalls, anti-virus software and anti-spyware software prevent most attacks from doing any damage. But new types of attacks must be reported in a manner that makes clear to network man...  Tip

  • OpenNMS, an introduction: Affordable network management

    Open source expert Maria Winslow brings network managers up to speed about the free open source enterprise-grade network-management system OpenNMS.  Tip

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