Monitoring websites, among other things is useless if you don’t know that there is any kind of a problem with whatever you are monitoring.
Most monitoring services, and for that matter most monitoring software, will let you choose how you receive messages about devices having problems.
For instance, at microNOC we offer the option of monitoring [...]

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That was a long time off from updating the blog, but it’s been an extremely busy month or two. Lots of travel time going up and down the coast, lots of work fixing and updating systems for a client, lots of time with the family too. All of which add up to very [...]

As I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, we cover a lot of networking ground here. Whether it’s network design, cable management or monitoring your internal systems, all of them interest us equally.
As a network designer, one of the components of network design that we are very concerned with is the amount of bandwidth that each [...]

Not really working on the microNOC  website monitoring this week as I’m offsite doing network consulting for an old friend while the companies normal network admin is out of town.
Now I’ve done work for them before, remotely, on network issues, but I’m actually onsite and doing far more this week.
One of the issues that I’ve [...]

A small diversion from the technical side and into the black art of SEO.
For those of you who don’t know, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is an art and science of getting a web page ranked extremely high, number one or number two, in organic (non-paid) search results.
How do they do that? [...]

A couple of follow ups on Netflow from yesterday.
Configuring netflow on a Cisco router.
I was asked about setting up netflow exports on a Cisco router.
I have to be honest, setting up netflow can vary wildly, depending on what you want to do, but here is a very very simply example. In this case, the router [...]

Staying away from the website monitoring topic for a bit, I wanted to touch on a tool that I mentioned in an earlier post - NetFlow.
Netflow really isn’t a tool - it’s a protocol that has a series of tools associated with it. But those tools place a lot of power in your hands [...]

We advertise that our website monitoring is simple, but what exactly does that mean?
Well, to us it means that you never have to learn anything new to use our monitoring service. No need to keep track of another login, have another interface to learn, more tech lingo to figure out and more minute details to [...]

This came up in a conversation that I was having yesterday and I thought that I was worth a short note.
Many website monitoring companies, including microNOC, offer the ability to test the actual content that your website is serving to visitors, instead of just checking that the server is up and running, which can give [...]

Not really a post I intended to write, but I was perusing Google doing some competitive analysis and came across, on the second page of results, a site whose content was “an error occurred”. So I clicked on the cached, and the Google cache of the site, from yesterday, was literally a page that says [...]