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News From PaesslerNetwork Loops: The One Infrastructure Killer You Can (Mostly) PreventNetwork loops are one of the few pieces of evidence that the universe loves to laugh at us. Somewhere, right this minute, a five-dollar Ethernet cable is taking down a million-dollar infrastructure. An innocent intern trying to get internet in the conference room has both ends of a patch cable plugged into the same switch, and now 500 employees are staring at the spinning wheel of doom. Meanwhile, the CEO's slideshow presentation is stuck on the same slide for the umpteenth time, and the accounting department rocking back and forth crying, "Remember the good old days of the pre-internet world?" Network Automation: From Manual Chaos to Automated Peace of Mind?Manual network configuration is slow, error-prone, and doesn?t scale. Human error causes 70-75% of all network outages, and the average cost of 1 hour of network downtime has now surpassed $300,000 for enterprise organizations. Network automation helps solve both issues by eliminating manual configuration tasks and introducing consistency across your entire infrastructure. PRTG vs RMM: Why Network Monitoring Complements Your RMM ToolIf you're using an RMM (Remote Monitoring and Management) solution or IT management tool, you may ask yourself if you need another piece of monitoring software as well. The question is valid, and we get it. Many IT professionals and sysadmins want to know how using Paessler PRTG Network Monitor can benefit them when they already have an endpoint or patch management tool. Enable SNMPv3 on Windows and Linux: Complete Configuration GuideMonitoring network devices is a must-have for network admins, but they need to do it securely. The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has helped millions of admins collect information and monitor networks over the past several decades. SNMP has had security improvements over the years, and that has resulted in three versions, v1, v2c, and v3, but the first two send information unencrypted. What Causes Network Jitter and How to Fix ItYou're on a video call with a client when suddenly their voice turns into a garbled mess of stuttering syllables. The screen freezes mid-sentence, and by the time the video catches up, you've missed half the conversation. Sound familiar? That's network jitter at work, and it's the silent killer of real-time communication. How to Improve Network Latency: Beyond Bandwidth and Speed TestsNetwork latency can make or break user experience. Gamers feel every millisecond of delay; video conferencing teams struggle when jittery lag ruins every session; business application users watch productivity tank as they wait for slow responses. You've probably spent more time troubleshooting network issues than you would like. Worst of all? End-users do not care about your router settings or bandwidth. They only care that things are supposed to work fast and often do not. SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Essential Tools and Best Practices for Database OptimizationMicrosoft SQL Server databases power many applications that are the lifeblood of businesses in today?s data-driven world. Whether your servers are on-premises or hosted in Azure, your company relies on the availability of your SQL Server instances to power your applications. However, poorly performing databases can have a negative impact on user experience and revenue generation and slow productivity throughout your business. How to Find the Cause of Packet Loss in Your NetworkWhen users complain of dropped video calls, stuttering applications, or files that won't upload properly, 90% of the time you can probably blame packet loss. It's one of those network performance issues that make you feel like the whole network is shot, even when your equipment is fine. PRTG 25.4.112 is now available in the stable release channelGreat news for your monitoring setup! We've just released PRTG version 25.4.112 to the stable release channel. This version brings you the new SNMP Linux Disk Free v2 sensor, several security improvements, and updated language files for German and Spanish. Why Network Topology Diagrams Are Your Best Friend (And How PRTG Makes Them Useful)Let me guess. You've been staring at a screen for an hour trying to solve some cryptic connectivity issue. Your boss or a colleague just walks by and asks, "Do we have a topology diagram for this?" You then head over to that shared folder and dig out some Visio file from 2017. Your eyes scan over the network diagram showing equipment that has not been in your data center since your last regime. Sound familiar? Truth is, your network already has a topology. The issue is, your diagrams don't match it anymore. Cloud Database Management: How Modern Businesses Optimize Performance, Scalability, and Cost-EffectivenessA significant shift has occurred in the data storage landscape over the last 10 years. Legacy environments saw data centers full of physical servers on racks, all taking up space in climate-controlled rooms with teams of database administrators overseeing operations 24x7. Cloud database management, by contrast, is at the heart of next-generation digital infrastructure. Businesses are processing workloads as never before and cloud database management is what allows them to do this while scaling down maintenance and increasing business agility. Database Optimization: Your Guide to Faster Queries and Better PerformanceHere we go again. Your database is slow, users are experiencing lag, and your application is crawling. Sound familiar? Performance issues tend to creep up on even the best-tuned databases. Slow response times are usually the first indicator that something's not quite right, which puts you in on the back foot straight away. Network Troubleshooting: A Systematic Approach for IT ProfessionalsYour monitoring dashboard pings. 2 PM Tuesday. Three different departments can't access the file server. By the time you load your network map, half of them have already created tickets. The rest are gathered around your desk. Everyone wants to know the same thing: when will it be fixed? If you've been network administrator for more than five minutes you know this scenario all too well. The easy part isn't addressing common failures like a dead switch or disconnected cable. It's troubleshooting the intermittent issues, the slow degradation of performance that takes weeks to detect, and the network problems that only happen under very specific circumstances nobody thought to document. Systematic troubleshooting and good data can help you handle all of these. Master MIB Browser Usage: From Import to Network Monitoring SuccessAs a network administrator, you are always faced with the problem of trying to manage the large number of network devices that make up your network infrastructure. From routers and switches to servers and printers, every device has its own way of communicating performance data. This is where a free SNMP MIB browser comes into play and can become your best friend for network management.A MIB (Management Information Base) browser is a software application that allows you to access and interact with the management information stored on SNMP-enabled devices. In other words, it?s your specialized tool for reading, analyzing, and even modifying the data stored on your network devices. It?s like having a universal remote control for your network infrastructure ? one that not only lets you see what?s going on, but also lets you make changes when needed. Monitoring an MQTT Broker: Why and HowLet's say you have several hundred IoT devices publishing telemetry data to your MQTT broker and things have been working smoothly for months. One morning you notice half of the sensor readings have stopped arriving. Your monitoring dashboard becomes a black hole, your automation stops working, and you can't determine whether the problem is with the devices, the network, or the MQTT broker. |
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