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Garland Technology is committed to educating the benefits of having a strong foundation of network visibility and access. By providing this insight we protect the security of data across your network and beyond.

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Visibility Solutions

Garland Technology is committed to educating the benefits of having a strong foundation of network visibility and access. By providing this insight we protect the security of data across your network and beyond.

Resources

Garland Technology's resource library offers free use of white papers, eBooks, use cases, infographics, data sheets, video demos and more.

Blog

The TAP into Technology blog provides the latest news and insights on network access and visibility, including: network security, network monitoring and appliance connectivity and guest blogs from Industry experts and technology partners

Partners

Our extensive technology partnership ecosystem solves critical problems when it comes to network security, monitoring, application analysis, forensics and packet inspection.

Company

Garland Technology is dedicated to high standards in quality and reliability, while delivering the greatest economical solutions for enterprise, service providers, and government agencies worldwide.

Contact

Whether you are ready to make a network TAP your foundation of visibility or just have questions, please contact us. Ask us about the Garland Difference!

[Video] Enable SNMP on Windows 8

When you're troubleshooting sometimes issues are not clearly a server, client or network issue - I get asked to assist on these regularly. I’m always trying to get the right balance of data without becoming overwhelmed with too much to analyze.

Take a quick second and i'll walk you through it!

 

Step 1: Getting Visibility on the Network

The first thing to do is determine how to get visibility into the network equipment whether I use the client’s system or my own tools. Since problems typically involve a client and minimally a server, I try to ensure that I have a plan in place to gather this information.

As you can expect, the biggest issue I encounter as an external consultant is access to devices or network management systems. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not expecting anyone to give me administrator passwords to servers or clients, unless they are test systems in a lab. The key here is to make sure I know how I will get access to this data in a timely fashion. In some cases, it may involve a different contact for the server, client and network equipment which is fine with me.

Download Maximizing Visibility - it's free!

Here's Where My Helpful Tip Comes In

If possible, I try to get SNMP/WMI enabled on client to give me more visibility. There are many tools out there that can use SNMP/WMI to perform system queries or monitor running services or applications to assist with troubleshooting. By using SNMP, I don’t need the client’s login credentials. I find customers already have server monitoring solutions that we can leverage.

In this video, I show you how to enable SNMP on a Windows 8.1 system:

 

 

Tony Fortunato, CCNA, CFNI, CWI
Sr Network Performance Specialist
The Technology Firm
www.thetechfirm.com
Getting things to work better - bit by bit-

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Still want more info? Set alerts and traps with Bypass TAPs and Packet Brokers with our free white paper download: Maximizing Visibility

Written by Tony Fortunato

Tony Fortunato is a Senior Network Performance Specialist with experience in design, implementation and troubleshooting networks since 1989. Tony will teach or troubleshoot on your live network as part of his customized onsite training service for your staff.

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