I didn't expect a server monitor this small to be genuinely useful.

IT monitoring is largely broken up into network monitoring and everything else. Trevor Pott looks at the fundamental underpinnings of both network and server and application monitoring. Sometimes it's ...

Nagios (www.nagios.org) is a Linux-based, open-source monitoring package that provides state-of-the-art functionality, giving commercial products a run for their money. Nagios has the capability to ...

Five observations about why your your server monitoring still stinks by a monitoring specialist-turned-consultant. Early in my career, I was responsible for managing a large fleet of printers across a ...

Cloud-based network management software firm Auvik Networks Inc. today announced a number of new capabilities in software-as-a-service automation, endpoint network visibility and server monitoring ...

Server monitoring is certainly an important enough function to any company that the need exists for good tools that are intuitive and easy to use. PA Server Monitor is such a tool. PA Server Monitor ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

Automated network monitoring involves scanning for device component failures and examining traffic patterns. Learn how to lighten the load of your network management responsibilities. Network device ...

I have a mostly Win2K3 environment and I am thinking of getting a solution to monitor all of them. I understand that there are solutions like SMS, but I was wondering if there was any standalone, ...

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