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Remote WMI - Access Denied
I have been working to turn on an event log monitor and service monitor for the past few days. I noticed when I would test it would fail the test. After some troubleshooting I found that I can not even...
View ArticleOrion Passthrough authentication, IIS settings
We enabled passthrough authentication some time ago and it was working fine. At some point it stopped functioning correctly, it may have occured during one of the many patches and updates, but we...
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JMX Bridge Stops
Hello All, My JMX Bridge service stops responding within 10 minutes of starting. I am running the following apps on a VMware VM running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard:NPM 11.0.1NCM 7.3.2SAM...
View ArticleRemote Workers how are you enabling and managing them ?
I guess I'm pretty lucky; I work from home and have only been to the corporate office about six times since I started over a year ago. The company I work for uses Citrix XenApp for publishing...
View ArticleRemote network access: Commercial Solution or Roll your own ?
Remote management of workstations and remote networks has been something that IT staff have dealt with for a long time. Some IT staff simply need to management workstations from inside of their...
View ArticlePatch Management? I don't care for it but YOU should!
Patch Management! How exciting? Eagerly waiting up till the wee hours of the night on Patch Tuesdays, waiting for Microsoft to release the latest round of security patches and application fixes. I’m...
View ArticleBYOD, how does your company handle it ?
Everywhere you look it seems as though people are seeing two things... "Cloud" and "BYOD". So lets talk about BYOD... or Buy Your Own Device or Bring Your Own Dollars... however you look at it my...
View ArticleDo you monitor your systems bidirectionally? Ingress and egress traffic to...
This question is a near kinsman to my last question "When monitoring service uptime and availability, do you use geographically diverse monitoring stations? Can you have too many?" The reason is that,...
View ArticleKing for a Day - What would you change?
For the past few weeks I've had some really good discussions around patch management. The reasons why some people don't patch, the reasoning behind why people do patch, where it fits into an...
View ArticleAre you making the move to Windows Server 2012?
Interesting enough, most Windows administrators that I've talked to are immediately turned off by the user experience presented by Windows Server 2012. It’s a very different graphical interface on the...
View ArticleWhat Is The Future of Application Delivery?
Every year seems to be met with an optimistic glow of it being the “year of the desktop”. By that, I mean that a large shift will push virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) into the lime light....
View ArticlePatching and Antivirus : Technology Doppelgangers?
As I am sitting here thinking about Windows Patching (I don't take my meds till 11am ), it strikes me that there are some real parallel threads among patching and Antivirus. They both seem to be a...
View ArticleWhy Didn't We Know About This?
Those six words can make you shudder. When they are the only text in an email below a link leading to a story about a zero-day exploit or a news flash on CNN talking about stolen personal information...
View ArticleWhen monitoring service uptime and availability, do you use geographically...
In dealing with availability monitoring, how many different geographic angles do you prefer to analyze from? Are the pros and cons to having too many or too few? I recently had a downtime problem with...
View ArticleDo You Trust Vendor Patches?
Microsoft had a bit of an issue with the latest round of patches last week. Nothing major blew up other than an Outlook folder pane view, but the implications were legion. Do you actually test these...
View ArticleWhen monitoring multiple sites, how do you handle the collection of data...
This is tied in to my last post "Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations where you prefer one over the other?" I prefer agent-based solutions for monitoring to get...
View ArticleNo One Expects The Java Patch!
It seems the operating system patches take the brunt of the blame when it comes to problematic behavior. It used to be a common occurrence to have multiple days of Windows patches or a never-ending...
View ArticleDo you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations where...
When I’m evaluating a monitoring system, one of the first things I check for is if it is agent-based or agentless. The use of one method over another doesn’t necessarily spell disaster for the project...
View ArticleCan You Bring Your Own Patches?
I've got several devices that I use frequently. Smartphone, tablet, and laptop are all frequently used devices. When I spent my time working at a VAR, I saw examples of all these devices being...
View ArticleRemote network access: Commercial Solution or Roll your own ?
Remote management of workstations and remote networks has been something that IT staff have dealt with for a long time. Some IT staff simply need to management workstations from inside of their...
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