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...but not on my internal network, which is what I'm most concerned with. I know I can't ignore it entirely but mostly I can.
Yes you may be able to mostly ignore IPv6 on your internal network for a while, but can you ignore basic IP address conflicts and the costs, direct and indirect, of them? if you experience occasional IP address conflicts, then take a look at products that will reduce those and most of the time you get the added bonus of a tool that will help you plan an IPv6 migration.
Next episode might be worthy. If you defined the price range you might probably also share with us which are the solutions name for each of the ten topics.
Yes, advertising will be the included for free, but if you do not share them, google will gain for all the time we will search for them
However, very useful. Great vision.
Best Regards
Yes, advertising will be the included for free, but if you do not share them, google will gain for all the time we will search for them
However, very useful. Great vision.
Best Regards
Was excited to see the vision of the list but would have been awesome to see some examples.
One of the most time consuming tasks that Admins have is researching known good, quality solutions...if I had someone to do that for me (Read: Brad Hale), I would be eternally grateful.
One of the most time consuming tasks that Admins have is researching known good, quality solutions...if I had someone to do that for me (Read: Brad Hale), I would be eternally grateful.
So the spreadhseet doens't work - what utils are out there that do a good job of this
And I concur with mark1408 - internal networks should be fine on IPv4
The public side will be managed by the ISP.
And I concur with mark1408 - internal networks should be fine on IPv4
The public side will be managed by the ISP.
I agree that your internal network should be fine on IPv4 for some time using NAT, CIDR, or dual-stack technologies. But let me ask you this: do you ever have IP address conflicts? If you do, what is the cost of those IP address conflicts? The cost of a conflict is more than just the cost of your time troubleshooting the conflict. It is also the cost of the network downtime. Perhaps it is not that large for your situation, but it can easily run into the tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for large enterprises.
As for utilities, there a number of free and paid tools that do a great job of not only managing IPv4 address space, but also help in the planning of and IPv6 migration when you get ready to make the move. Take a look at SolarWinds free IP Address Tracker, or if you need more power, look at IP Address Manager. The latter offers a free fully functional 30-day trial so you can try it our in your environment.
As for utilities, there a number of free and paid tools that do a great job of not only managing IPv4 address space, but also help in the planning of and IPv6 migration when you get ready to make the move. Take a look at SolarWinds free IP Address Tracker, or if you need more power, look at IP Address Manager. The latter offers a free fully functional 30-day trial so you can try it our in your environment.
Brad, I see that you work with SolarWinds, so I'm not sure if you were conflicted with making recommendations. However, it doesn't make sense to post your recommendations without providing leads and examples. Why bother writing if you're basically telling us nothing we don't already know?
On a separate note, IPv4 is not going anywhere, and as others have noted, it's fine for private networks. What you should have talked about was the advantages of moving internal networks (or external) to IPv6. For example, aren't there significant security advantages there?????
On a separate note, IPv4 is not going anywhere, and as others have noted, it's fine for private networks. What you should have talked about was the advantages of moving internal networks (or external) to IPv6. For example, aren't there significant security advantages there?????
Thanks for the comment. I always have to walk a fine line between providing some guidance or insight and not wanting to come across as complete marketing spin while remaining in my word limit for the article. With that said, however, I will give you some ideas that come from SolarWinds.
1. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) manages and monitors bandwidth usage by taking advantage of the built in flow technologies within your routers.
2. Server & Applications Monitor (SAM) delivers agentless performance and availability monitoring, alerting, and reporting for hundreds of applications and server types.
3. Virtualization Manager delivers integrated VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, and chargeback automation.
4. Log & Event Manager (LEM) is a Security Information & Event Management solution that combines real-time log analysis, event correlation, and IT search.
5. IP Address Manager (IPAM) offers DNS, DHCP, and IPAM monitoring and management.
6. Network Configuration Manager (NCM) offers change and configuration management.
7. VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM) allows you to correlate VoIP call quality with the underlying WAN performance to pinpoint and troubleshoot poor VoIP calls.
8. Web Performance Monitor allows you to continuously monitor internal (behind the firewall), customer-facing, SaaS and cloud-based applications, as well as websites.
9. Dameware Remote Support provides remote windows administration and desktop remote control.
10. Mobile Admin provides agentless IT management & monitoring from any mobile device.
Yes, there are commercially available products that compete with each and every one of SolarWinds solutions but coming up with that list would be a VERY long article. Where SolarWinds believes that we differentiate is that we provide solutions to the every day problems of IT professionals at a great value. The price ranges that I indicate in the article are the price ranges for SolarWinds products. We feel quite confident that are products provide the greatest value in the marketplace.
Lastly, all SolarWinds products are downloadable and offer a free fully functional 30-day trial so you can see exactly how it works in your environment.
1. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) manages and monitors bandwidth usage by taking advantage of the built in flow technologies within your routers.
2. Server & Applications Monitor (SAM) delivers agentless performance and availability monitoring, alerting, and reporting for hundreds of applications and server types.
3. Virtualization Manager delivers integrated VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, and chargeback automation.
4. Log & Event Manager (LEM) is a Security Information & Event Management solution that combines real-time log analysis, event correlation, and IT search.
5. IP Address Manager (IPAM) offers DNS, DHCP, and IPAM monitoring and management.
6. Network Configuration Manager (NCM) offers change and configuration management.
7. VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM) allows you to correlate VoIP call quality with the underlying WAN performance to pinpoint and troubleshoot poor VoIP calls.
8. Web Performance Monitor allows you to continuously monitor internal (behind the firewall), customer-facing, SaaS and cloud-based applications, as well as websites.
9. Dameware Remote Support provides remote windows administration and desktop remote control.
10. Mobile Admin provides agentless IT management & monitoring from any mobile device.
Yes, there are commercially available products that compete with each and every one of SolarWinds solutions but coming up with that list would be a VERY long article. Where SolarWinds believes that we differentiate is that we provide solutions to the every day problems of IT professionals at a great value. The price ranges that I indicate in the article are the price ranges for SolarWinds products. We feel quite confident that are products provide the greatest value in the marketplace.
Lastly, all SolarWinds products are downloadable and offer a free fully functional 30-day trial so you can see exactly how it works in your environment.
This is a good list of skills / characteristics I'd like my co-workers and employees to have. You might want to re-work this and call it '10 skills to Evaluate in an Interview.'
Brad, nice post but i think monitoring is obvious and common sense, when you write about automated tools, you can spend all the time in the world monitoring your systems, but if you are not able to quickly identify, analyze and resolve the problems, youre really no better off than you were at the start of the process. Simply put, monitoring just isn't enough to keep IT operations running efficiently (i believe this is the big challenge). Think about what happens in the event of a system outage. Whether its internal IT or a managed service provider, the focus immediately becomes about time to resolution. The longer critical systems are down, the more devastating an impact it will have on an organization. With regular monitoring, time is not on your side. Every moment you spend manually working to resolve the situation, your service levels are dropping. This is where automated tools get's in!
I would suggest taking sometime and writing about the benefits of automation tools and also to list some of them, i can also think of at least 100 ways sysadmins can use automation tools, i can work with you on listing those...
BR, Gabby Nizri
I would suggest taking sometime and writing about the benefits of automation tools and also to list some of them, i can also think of at least 100 ways sysadmins can use automation tools, i can work with you on listing those...
BR, Gabby Nizri
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