I consider backups to be the “desert island” service of IT; if you’re going to provide one service to your users or business, it has to be backups. Data changes all the time, users make mistakes, and disasters happen. What …
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Monitoring Log Messages with Nagios Passive Checks
Nagios is powerful, industry-standard monitoring software that can track uptime, generate performance reports, and alert relevant personnel when something goes wrong. It’s probably the most important software I use on a daily basis.
Nagios’s primary mode of “service checking” is …
Tuning Cisco and Linux IGMP for AoIP
Modern AoIP implementations from vendors like Wheatstone or Telos utilize multicast networking to efficiently deliver audio streams among devices on a network. Without multicast, bandwidth usage and latency on the network can spike. Uplinks connecting access switches with the core …