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YouTube, Facebook make bandwidth monitoring best practices challenging
Network performance can be dragged down by sites like YouTube and Facebook, but cutting them off completely can lead to new problems. Two veterans of the bandwidth monitoring wars share their advice for keeping your network performance up to par. Article
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How a new casino manages a giant network with 500 switches, IP voice
When Station Casinos built its newest property, Aliante Hotel & Casino, a new computing model for slot machines forced the company to deploy a network that was 10 times bigger than anything it had built before. Find out how it was done and how the co... Article
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ping
Ping is a basic Internet program that allows a user to verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests. The verb "ping" means the act of using the ping utility or command. Definition
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How network performance management can save money, boost applications
A Washington hospital uses network performance management tools to save money and to ensure performance of critical applications. Article
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Return-all-values script: Managing Windows networks using scripts, Part 13
One way to manage your Windows network is through scripts. The particular workhorse script described in this tip can return all values of all properties of a specific instance of a Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) class to give you useful inf... Tip
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HTTP error code troubleshooting, Part 2: How to use IIS tool WFetch
You can understand what's causing an HTTP error by looking at the error code, but sometimes that's not enough. In this tip, learn how to use network analysis tool WFetch, from Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Resource Kit, to troub... Tip
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Network management software vendors offer virtualization management
Network management software vendors SolarWinds and PacketTrap have added server virtualization management and monitoring into their products. Experts say this is a good first step as virtualization forces IT to break up the silos that exist between n... Article
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TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet Definition
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Hospital gains network visibility by convincing vendors to collaborate
When Concord Hospital needed to install a network behavioral analysis (NBA) tool into a Nortel network built on multi-link trunking, the hospital's network chief had to convince Nortel to collaborate with his preferred NBA vendor. Article
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NagVis -- 'Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, Second Edition,' Chapter 18
Open source network monitoring tool, Nagios, catches problems to help you spend less time troubleshooting. To read about the Nagios add-on, NagVis1, see this chapter download of the book "Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, Second Edition." You wi... Chapter Download