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February 2019
January 2019
Monitoring Request Forms
Monitoring request forms, nodes, alerts, reports and web transactions.
Designing a Solarwinds Monitoring System
I was asked to write a document of 2000 words to provide a proposal to an organisation in need of a new monitoring system. See how Adam did it here...
October 2018
MSP’s Don’t Work.
MSP's don't work. Employ a contractor instead!
April 2018
How to Monitor Darktrace with SNMPV3
This is a simple guide to enable successful monitoring of the Darktrace master and slave appliances using SNMPV3. Prerequisite : Make sure your devices are connected and configured with IP addresses via the Darktrace interface. Connect via putty onto each device. 2. Login as : Console 3. Enter your SSH password 4. [...]
August 2017
What you leave behind.
Today, after five months, i'm finishing another Infrastructure monitoring contract. A successful Solarwinds deployment for a NHS service provider. A few achievements : I have automated alerting based upon custom application monitoring templates and thresholds. I have designed some really clever performance / capacity reports that will be used to report back to NHS Digital [...]
Monitoring an Application with Solarwinds
Monitoring an Application (SAM) Log on to your SolarWinds Web Console with an Administrator account. Click the Settings / All Settings Find Product Specific Settings and Click SAM Settings. In the Getting Started with SAM box, Click Manually Assign Application Monitors. Select the Application Monitor template you want to apply, and then click Next. Select the server node [...]
June 2017
What is SNMP & what is a MIB?
What is SNMP? Developed in 1988 to provide network-device-monitoring capability for TCP/IP-based networks, SNMP was approved as an Internet standard in 1990 by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and has been in wide use since that time. More recently, Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX)-based networks have added support for SNMP. Currently, most network equipment vendors provide [...]
May 2017
Component Monitoring Objectivity
Monitoring applications, servers, and components need to be clearly defined so that better understanding of the technical environment can be gained. When technical and non-technical staff are asked to work within an environment, certified diagrammatical information is critical to the effective support, development and future maintenance of the environment. This diagram is a representation of [...]
Charts, Charts, Charts
Creating an informative, useful chart is a great way to display data about an environment. When it is a requirement that an environment is monitored, custom views can be generated to display many key aspects of a server. In the charts displayed, I have created views that dynamically update, adding new servers into the chart [...]