By default, in default IPHost installation the simplest email notification is used. While it’s suitable for most small or testing setups, more complex notifications may be required for real-life monitoring setups. By means of inheritance and composite alerts, notification system can be made quite flexible: small changes may be required to handle typical use cases. Let’s mention several pieces of advice to control notifications with less efforts.

Network availability is critical for the health and performance of business-critical applications and IT infrastructure. Given that network resources like routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VoIP/UC, and wireless LAN controllers are the backbone of today’s digital infrastructure, how does IT gain the right levels of visibility to troubleshoot network issues?

As businesses grow, so do their networks and the challenges that come along with managing them. For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), however, tight budgets and fewer resources make it even more challenging for network admins to manually track and monitor all network elements. Without a proper tool in place, even simple issues like poor internet connectivity and network outages can bring down a service.

Standard operating procedures—more commonly known as SOPs—are written, step-by-step instructions that describe how to perform a routine activity. While you can create an SOP for anything, SOPs that outline technical procedures are a well-known path to increasing efficiency in your MSP business. Whether you’ve got existing SOPs you’re interested in updating, or you’re looking for some basic steps to build brand new SOPs around, you’ve come to the right place.

The go-to solution for BFSI The banking industry is based heavily on business-critical customer-facing applications, many of which are available on a mobile platform. Clients expect these programs to have negligible downtime. The banking industry has been way ahead in embracing DevOps practices, as it needs to deliver user experiences that go beyond their expectations.

Observability is a hot Subject right now, stirring a great deal of debate among IT admins. This report brings some clarity and will shed some light on the topic – “What is the difference between monitoring & observability?”. Enterprise IT is complex as IT infrastructure solutions are delivered from enormous datacenters located at remote locations.

Whether you need a VPN for Torrenting, streaming, or safe usage of public Wi-Fi networks, you may be off-put by the price tag. After all, why do you need to pay upwards of 8 dollars a month for something as basic as changing your IP address once in a while? The good news is you don’t have to. There are tons of free VPN options, and the ones you see on this list will cover most of your basic needs.

Recently, our good friends at Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched an awesome new product, VPC Traffic Mirroring. Here at Splunk, we are excited about this new capability as it allows our Splunk Stream platform to ingest this data, and send it on to any Splunk instance, in the cloud or on premises. Leveraging this capability allows Splunk users to collect specific network data from their AWS environment, and use it to fulfill security, IT Ops, or business-focused use cases.

If you’re a tech geek you must have come across disrupting technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, and IoT. These are the key buzz words since many years. With this blog we plan on kickstarting 2020 with the most sought-after question amongst IT administrators & DevOps team, “How will AI & ML benefit us?”, “What’s the role of AI in Networks?” & more. Well, let’s get started!