Take a look at the challenges George Hicks faced when he joined PCI and took over the network infrastructure.  Learn why WhatsUp Gold was chosen and how George immediately implemented it as a solution.

WhatsUp Gold provides a few database tools to help maintain your WhatsUp database. One of the most useful is the 'Check for fragmented tables...' option. Fragmented tables can cause performance issues not just on table lookups, but on insert and delete operations as well, meaning everything that ever reads, updates or deletes from some of the tables could benefit from having the fragmentation removed. In this post I have a script that runs in the background to produce the output of the…

What's the outlook heading into 2012 for networking careers? Companies are hiring again, and the economic climate is not as gloomy as it was a couple of years ago. The face of networking and communication has changed rather dramatically the last few years, too........Find out more in this assessment of the networking job market.

Scenario

Scrolling through my list of active monitors today, I realised I have way too many to remember whats on what device. And I also rely heavily on the 'Use in rescan' option to ensure that the correct monitors go on each device. My realisation was that even though I have configured the monitors, they may not have been attached to a device when using the rescan; say that monitor was actually down at the moment of rescan for example. So I think I may have monitors that are not attached to…

Scenario

There I was happily WUG'ing away, testing Action scripts, adding new devices etc., when I was asked by my boss to add an additional 15 servers to WUG. No problem I thought; so I added the 15 servers, ran a 'Rescan' option on them all as I discovered them, and went back to my normal work. A few minutes later, one of our webservers had a bit of a funny 5 minutes and IIS froze. This meant that WUG reported the website as being down. But not just on the server that the site was running…

The operation is divided into 2 parts...

The First:

You will use it to get the information of all alert center thresholds

select sAlertDescription,* from ProActiveAlert

The Second:

You should select the nProActiveAlertID that you want to change

update ProActiveAlert
set sAlertDescription = 'Ahmed Basiouny Ali'
where nProActiveAlertID = 10

Note:

1.     ProActiveAlert -- database table
2.     Ahmed Basiouny Ali -- the text that you want to add
3.     10 -- value of…

Network Attached Storage (NAS) is relatively new on the storage front, but quickly gaining popularity for its ease-of-use and cost-effectiveness through storage devices that can be directly accessed over a network. In this best practices document, see how NAS devices can benefit your organization.

FCoE converges LAN, SAN and other data center components, allowing for consolidation of your storage traffic, reducing costs and your carbon footprint. But is it right for your data center? Learn more about this latest network infrastructure option in this best practices article.

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