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6 months ago
Contributed a review of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability: A unified platform designed to monitor the entire infrastructure
6 months ago
Answered a question: Why is UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) important for companies?
Endpoints continue to diversify with different operating systems and builds. The bad actors are two steps ahead in exploiting vulnerabilities posed by the many platforms. The same vulnerability could exist on a Windows system or maybe an Ubuntu system or even a cloud host…
10 months ago
Contributed a review of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager: Saves us time and improves our productivity
Over 1 year ago
Contributed a review of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer: Excels in identifying various database performance issues, including long-running queries, wait times, deadlocks, and other performance-related issues
Over 1 year ago
Commented on Useful for managing the configuration changes and backups, but they need to put more effort in their community
The look and feel for SolarWinds NCM definitely needs improvement. The configuration compliance reports also need to be visually uplifted. The Cisco Security Audit reports have a very poor layout - too much of white space and viewing window of the content is too small. Only…
Over 1 year ago
Answered a question: What do you like most about BigFix?
BigFix addresses the following key areas for Endpoint Management - Patch Compliance, Security Configuration Compliance (System Hardening), Vulnerability Analysis & Vulnerability Remediation. This makes the platform a single pane of glass to understand an endpoints posture…
Over 1 year ago
Contributed a review of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor: Helps to monitor server and application health including the physical and performance parameters
Over 1 year ago
Answered a question: What solution should we use for upgrading and patching OS to remediate vulnerabilities?
Hi,
You need to split your data center PATCHING requirements into separate sections. Endpoints & Network devices need to be accorded different treatments for Patch management or OS updates/upgrades. Typically, patch management solutions for servers, desktops, and laptops…
Over 1 year ago
SolarWinds NCM can have many more use cases than just doing a configuration backup. Use it for managing configuration changes, firmware upgrades, vulnerability management (for Cisco devices only), and config change alerts.
Over 2 years ago
Contributed a review of SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor: Useful version control, high availability, and scales well
Over 2 years ago
Has anyone used Applicare from Arcturus Technologies?
Almost 3 years ago
Answered a question: What needs improvement with BigFix?
Additionally, the Relay architecture needs some aspects to be improved - reporting to consoles, relay selection process can sometimes be slow, clients reporting to relays
Almost 3 years ago
Answered a question: What advice do you have for others considering BigFix?
BigFix supports all well-known operating systems with a very simple and easy-to-use interface, thereby requiring fewer skills to manage operations for multiple OS.
The client processing is the most important aspect of the BigFix solution, unlike other solutions where the…
Almost 3 years ago
Answered a question: What needs improvement with BigFix?
BigFix needs a relook at the Reports and Dashboards. Since BigFix is projected as "THE PLATFORM" of securing the endpoint - it is very imperative to have Dashboarding and Reporting capabilities that offer flexibility of a high level to the most granular level of details.
About 3 years ago
Answered a question: When evaluating Patch Management, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?
1. Visibility of Patching requirements for the entire environment - desktops, laptops, servers - physical or virtual, VM hosts
2. Distributed processing for identification of patches at each endpoint, instead of a scan-based approach. A scan-based approach may load the…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Why is patch management important for cybersecurity?
Software security should be addressed under three heads - Patch status, Configuration status and Vulnerability status
Patch Compliance: ensures that "all known issues" with the software are addressed. Please do note that the software can mean - Operating system software or…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: How do you plan for a security review for infrastructure monitoring software?
It may not be mandatory for conducting a security review before procuring Infrastructure monitoring tools but understanding the security concerns and planning a security monitoring platform goes a long way. You can adopt a sectional approach and address each security…
Almost 4 years ago
Answered a question: What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?
Licenses for SAM can be really expensive if you go by the traditional model of calculating "monitors" per server. These are typically individual parameters being monitored by the SAM module. The "newer" licensing model takes away the pain of calculating the individual…
Almost 4 years ago
Answered a question: What advice do you have for others considering SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager?
The NCM is a very useful tool for managing your network device configuration backups as well as configuration security checks. The configuration security compliance works best for Cisco devices, though would like SolarWinds to expand this to other vendors too
Other good…
About 4 years ago
Answered a question: What do you like most about SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?
AppStack & AppInsights are great features to explore.
AppStack shows up a nice visualization of how the Application is stacked up on the server infrastructure that displays the application group, server, virtual hypervisor host, storage, volumes making it very easy for the…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: Why is patch management important for cybersecurity?
Not Patching is like driving a car without a spare wheel in a jungle terrain. Regular patching safeguards you from at least the known perils.
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: How does synthetic monitoring differ from real user monitoring?
For Synthetic monitoring, a probe may be used from various geographies to simulate the communication between the user and the application. SEUM - Synthetic End User Monitoring will help in creating a TCP waterfall chart to measure the performance of the Application at each…
Over 4 years ago
Contributed a review of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor: More application insight-based widgets
Almost 5 years ago
Contributed a review of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager: Has good configuration backup automation, configuration compliance, security vulnerability detection, and upgrading features
Almost 5 years ago
Answered a question: What Is The Biggest Difference Between NETSCOUT and SolarWinds?
Common aspects of Solarwinds NPM and NetScout - Provide information pertaining to the network - latency, response time, the path taken, traffic info
Key differences - Use of different techniques - SNMP vs Packet capture
SNMP may give you added information like node…
About 7 years ago
Contributed a review of BigFix: A single tool for patch compliance, security compliance & software compliance of an entire compute infrastructure
Almost 8 years ago
Answered a question: PRTG vs. SolarWinds: Which is a better Network Monitoring Tool?
Would prefer Solarwinds for the following reasons -
Tight integration with major vendors - Cisco, Arista, Juniper and more
New NetPath feature enables faster troubleshooting
Scales well to support larger setups
Modular platform to include Servers, Applications, NetFlow…
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SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
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Over 2 years ago
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Almost 5 years ago
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6 months ago
Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)
Over 1 year ago
Patch Management
About 3 years ago
Patch Management
Over 3 years ago
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Almost 4 years ago
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Almost 4 years ago
Configuration Management
About 4 years ago
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Over 4 years ago
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Almost 5 years ago
Network Monitoring Software
Almost 8 years ago
Network Monitoring Software
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About me
30+ years in the IT industry - different roles and vast experience in IT Infrastructure setups.
Different roles & responsibilities - Desktop / Laptop support, Network Engineer, *Nix engineer, Novell Netware engineer, Support Team lead, Technical Support Management, Project Management, Training Manager, System Integration, Systems Engineering, Country Head for Systems Engineering and even Entrepreneurship.
