The Burden of Monitoring Load Balancers
06/12/18 I was having one of “those” days, and someone asked me to describe what a load balancer did. My answer was something like this. “Imagine your most critical application gai…
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No Network for Old Men
06/06/18 “Once upon a time, there was a little network…” No there wasn’t. Your network was never little, or if it was, it didn’t stay that way for long. Corporate environments grow…
Everything I Needed To Know About IT I Learned From Logan (Part Four)
02/26/18 (This is the fourth and final part of a series. You can find Part One here, Part Two here and Part Three here.) It behooves me to remind you that there are many spoilers b…
Traveling With Joy
02/26/18 Recently, two people I respect very much tweeted about travel, and how to remain positive and grateful while you do it. You can read those tweets (here) and (here). When I…
Everything I Needed To Know About IT I Learned From Logan (Part Three)
01/08/18 (This is the third part of a series. You can find Part One here and Part Two here.) It behooves me to remind you that there are many spoilers beyond this point. If you hav…
Everything I Needed To Know About IT I Learned From Logan (Part Two)
12/18/17 (This is the second part of a series. You can find Part One here.) It behooves me to remind you that there are many spoilers beyond this point. If you haven’t seen the mov…
Four Ways Your Network Could Change in Four Years
09/02/15 While SDN is still in its infancy, the value is indisputable as are the initial attempts at implementation in the form of Cisco® ACI and VMware® NSX. With ARIN down to abo…
Throttling Network Bandwidth
08/04/15 One of the aspects of monitoring that IT professionals (and monitoring software developers in particular) think about a lot is “throttling.” How do you control the flow of…
DPI Training: The What and Why of Packet Analysis
08/04/15 Is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) really worth the effort? If you have been troubleshooting networks for any length of time it should be obvious that packet inspection is a …
4 Steps to Forecast and Plan Your Network Capacity Needs
07/13/15 “Monitoring” is a deceptively broad category, so it’s not surprising that IT professionals often have differing descriptions. Some believe monitoring is the thing that cre…
Server and Application Reliability
07/13/15 It’s the “tirelessly” part that does us in. Our willingness to take any given system failure, (along with the associated tickets, group calls, management updates, and post…
Configuring NetFlow v5 and v9 on Cisco Routers
07/13/15 IT pros have access to a range of tools in their monitoring toolbox. There are the humble but readily available command line options like ping, traceroute, and netstat; th…