Monitoring

Installing Intellipool Network Monitor (INM)

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So you need to monitor the performance, capacity, responsiveness of the machines and devices that make up your network? Well you’ve come to the right place for a summary of the process of installaing and configuring Intellipool’s INM – a package which runs on a PC or server and monitors a range of items – […]

Feed me Seymour !!!!

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Email 2 RSS Why bother? Well if you want to take emails from various monitoring systems and push them into custom RSS feeds. Advanced Email2RSS can automatically download new emails, filter them based on pre-defined rules, convert all incoming emails into RSS feeds and upload them to your server – all without any intervention. I […]

Monitoring – IT’s best kept secret

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Since I started working in IT almost 20 years ago – I’ve been involved in system monitoring in one way or another with all the major operating systems that have come and gone – and those that remain. A lot of suppliers developed their own proprietary systems and a few software development companies such as […]

The power and the glory

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Many years ago I tested a printer adapter that allowed printing across power mains – specifically the same electric ring circuit. It didn’t work very well I have to say. Not much point if you can’t have printers shared in another room. Well things have moved on dramatically since then. Ethernet over power (EOP) devices […]

Take the S(ys)LOG out of logging !

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Regularly I have a requirement to provide adhoc monitoring of a device or application and the tool of choice is normally Syslog. Indeed some hardware providers and other produce their own tailored syslog tools to give a more useful interpretation of the information output by their product. A case in point is Draytek – with […]

WordPress – its blogtastic !

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I was asked recently what tool I used for blogging. Naturally enough I told them that I’d tried various but that WordPress was the one that I felt most at home with. For those people thinking about publishing even in a small way – check it out. You can host it yourself easily if you […]

Logging mail to a database

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As a means of alerting you to issues with servers and other monitored devices – email works fine if you are interested in responding to the item and then not needing to record the message for future reference. However if you want to retain a record of emails received to a pop mailbox then read […]