Review: SB EventLog Monitor

I have only one thing to say about this product, “How did I ever live without it”. If you manage more than one Microsoft Windows Server then you definitely need to be using SB EventLog Monitor.
So what does SB EventLog Monitor do that is so great, it collects, collates, and reports via a web interface [...]

Cacti’s Painless Network Monitoring

For the past week I’ve submersed myself in the world of Cacti, and have been have a lot of fun making cool graphs. As my staff will attest, I’m really big into monitoring anything and everything on our network. I find it’s very helpful to be able to track usage, capacity, growth, and a bunch [...]

3 Techs and Back to Renting

Well Comcast finally showed up 30 minutes after they first called. The first tech got lost, so shortly after she finally arrived, another tech showed up followed by the shift supervisor (the neighbors were most impressed, one of them even got a free service call out of it).
They tested this, and looked at that, they [...]

As Slow as Dial-up

Well if you’re reading this post then you are very lucky. In what seems to be a yearly event, my Comcast cable connection is horrible. When it is up, sometimes it is as slow as dial-up, and at best it is at DSL speeds. We are supposed to have a tech out Wednesday evening. Frustrating.
I [...]