Whenever I write about the crazy things vendors are trying to sell us, and the kludges we have to live with, I keep wondering, “Is it just me, or is the whole industry really as ridiculous as it seems?” It’s so nice to see someone else coming to the same conclusions, like Mark Burgess (the author of CFEngine and the Promise Theory) did in a lengthy essay on whether SDN makes sense.
Read more ...phpipam has support for creating custom fields to be used in address, subnets, vlans, devices and users tables. This is useful when you need to add some custom data to your tables. You can set your custom fields under Administration > Custom fields.
It supports following types of data and it representations:
Besides setting field type there are some other variables that can be set for each:
Establishing the Big Data Connection
Many network vendors will tell you that their network equipment is built for Big Data. However, once deployed, do you have enough Big Data context to effectively monitor, troubleshoot, triage and tune your network? In most cases the answer is no! When designing and deploying a network, administrators must consider whether this network will provide enough Big Data context?
Before we go any further let’s define BIG DATA context.
BIG DATA context is the ability to correlate Big Data events and protocols back to network events and protocols and to be able to classify BIG DATA network flows correctly. To establish the Big Data Connection, we’re going to discuss the requirements to ensure a network is in the class of networks that have Big Data context, how administrators can possibly achieve this, and the role network programmability and agility play in this discussion.
Now let us see how we can build BIG DATA context and act on it.
Building Big Data Context
Network monitoring, tracing, visibility and reporting with Big Data context is accomplished with network equipment that is able to export flow statistics, counters and flow DBs and leverage open systems to classify such Continue reading
SolarWinds' Head Geek Leon Adato joins Packet Pushers co-hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro for a discussion about the cost of (not) doing proper network monitoring. We also get an update on the new features found in the NPM 11.5 release including wireless heat maps, web-based alerting, auto-discovery of application types for DPI, automatic dependency mapping, integrated capacity planning, and duplex mismatch detection.
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