Organizations today love the idea of anywhere, anytime connectivity, but in their rush to get everything connected, often ignore the need for secure Network Access Control (NAC). In this article, we show you how you can use Aruba ClearPass to identify, control and respond to common network access issues and … Read More
Managed Services Providers (MSPs): What They Do and Why You Need Them.
For most organizations, IT is ‘plumbing’ – you know you need it, and it needs to work, but you’d rather not have to roll up your sleeves to work out how to flush your caches or fix that data leak! Managed Services Provider’s (MSPs) are technology consultants who take away … Read More
BrainStorm K20 – that was amazing!
This year’s BrainStorm K20 conference in the Wisconsin Dells was positively electric as education technologists from across the Midwest gathered together to connect, inform, and inspire. We sure hope your school or school district had the opportunity to attend! It was truly an amazing experience! The focus for Source One Technology … Read More
An ounce of monitoring – a pound of prevention
With an ever increasing amount of technology, networks, servers and solutions, it becomes more important to monitor all aspects of our systems. Network monitoring gives us a real-time picture of the health and maintenance requirements of our systems and assists us with IT performance troubleshooting. Over the years, we have investigated … Read More
Using PRTG to monitor Windows Server Backup
While PRTG (available at http://www.paessler.com) has many cool sensors available out-of-box for monitoring valuable network and server related data, unfortunately, it doesn’t have an easy way to monitor the Windows Server Backup service on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2 servers. Today, many small and medium businesses, and even … Read More
Using PRTG to monitor your available DHCP leases
How many times do we as network engineers get frustrated when one of our DHCP scope ranges gets dangerously close to running out of available lease addresses, or worse yet, actually runs out of available DHCP addresses, and we start getting calls from the helpdesk asking why people can no longer … Read More