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How you can harden your N-central server

My colleague Lewis Pope, our head security herd, wrote an excellent blog last week about hardening N-able™ RMM. I thought it prudent, in light of recent developments, to do the same for the N-able N-central® product. A lot of it is common knowledge, but I wanted to put together a checklist so you can review the security of your N-central platform and ensure you’re meeting some of these best practices.

What's New In DX NetOps Spectrum Network Monitoring Software

DX NetOps 21.2 network monitoring software continues to innovate and improve the scale, speed, and simplicity of network operations with a focused set of high-value features and capabilities. Exciting new enhancements include increased monitoring scale, telemetry support, expanded SDN and cloud technology coverage, and usability and security updates.

Dealing with Rogue DHCP Servers

You’ve probably happened across this little conundrum at least once or twice—troubleshooting a network issue where users are connecting to the network, but they aren’t able to access any resources or the internet. You start going through your troubleshooting workflow: check physical layer, data link layer, network layer… and there’s the problem. The device has an IP address, but it’s not an IP address you’d expect to see on your network.

Why should my business consider private and direct connections to Tencent Cloud?

Tencent Cloud is among a number of Chinese tech giants making an impact in the enterprise cloud sector. In this blog, we look at how businesses can maximise the potential of their Tencent Cloud instance using direct connections through Console Connect.

What is Network Monitoring | Obkio

What is Network Monitoring? We talk a lot about monitoring Network Performance, but what exactly does that mean? Let’s quickly go over the vocabulary surrounding network monitoring. When we talk about traditional network monitoring, we often refer to Fault Monitoring or Device Monitoring. Network monitoring covers a vast range of techniques. Network Performance Monitoring differs from traditional monitoring because performance is monitored.

Push Notifications with HAProxy Edge - The HAProxy ADN

500 customers in 15 countries. 200 Billion push notifications delivered yearly. With over five years of experience in the industry, 500 customers and over 200 billion push notifications delivered each year, Batch.com prides itself as one of the world’s leading Mobile-First Customer Engagement Platform. Their motto “Keep pushing” exemplifies this, since their platform delivers push notifications to some of the world’s most prominent names in any industry.

DHCP scope

It’s possible to have more than one DHCP server on the same network and still have everything work right, with no conflicts and no dropped packets or IP requests. It’s really not that hard to pull together, either, but there are some things to know, and some things to consider before we investigate that situation. For this blog, we’ll put some of the overlooked facets of DHCP in bold text. Let’s take a look.

Achieving Multi Cloud Integration With SD WAN

The adoption of a multi-cloud approach is inevitable. Yet many struggle with the transition to multi-cloud due to legacy MPLS VPN networks, which weren’t designed for the Cloud. In this video, we explain how we’ve helped customers to solve this problem utilizing SD-WAN to eliminate complexity and deliver a cloud-first architecture.

DX NetOps 21.2 Network Monitoring Software Continues to Improve Visibility with Expanded SD-WAN, SDDC, and SD-WiFi Coverage

DX NetOps 21.2 network monitoring software continues to innovate and improve the scale, speed, and simplicity of network operations with a focused set of high-value features and capabilities. The solution collects data (network faults, performance, events, and alarms) from SDN and WiFi controllers and orchestrators to deliver deep visibility into the health and performance of your modern network deployments. Additionally, the solution correlates data from different network streams.

OpManager: Network visualization tool that turns data into insights

Information is one of an organization’s most important assets. In the global wide area network (GWAN), operations of all sizes store, change, and exchange their business data. Similar to how the meaning of digital data sharing has evolved, aspects like data availability and security have taken on important new meanings as well. Today’s IT administrators need to ensure the network is stable.