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Infrastructure Monitoring – Part 3: Effective Monitoring

Deploying an effective infrastructure monitoring system is no small task. This series should give you a leg up on developing a strategy for implementing a monitoring solution for your environment.

Part three focuses on providing an overview how to drive the most value out of your monitoring environment. This should give you a head start during implementation so you can make the correct configuration choices the first time.

By | 2017-05-18T23:53:51-07:00 April 9th, 2016|About|1 Comment

Infrastructure Monitoring – Part 2: Industry Leaders and Selection

Deploying an effective infrastructure monitoring system is no small task. This series should give you a leg up on developing a strategy for implementing a monitoring solution for your environment.

Part two consists of an overview of the major monitoring solutions (strengths/weaknesses), the iterative process of selecting the right fit for your requirements, and the benefit of doing a “Proof of Concept”.

By | 2017-05-18T23:53:51-07:00 March 22nd, 2016|About|4 Comments

Remote Task and Service Auditing

At work today I undertook the task of auditing a domain administrator account. Because we don't want to have many system administrator's profiles on all of our servers we have a specific domain administrator account which is used for routine maintenance and for anything that needs to be done locally on the server. Over time [...]

By | 2017-05-19T00:27:19-07:00 November 15th, 2013|About|0 Comments

Computer Imaging: A Short Analysis

This was written by me back in the summer of 2011 when I worked for a university life cycling a few buildings. When I wrote this I was much less "well-rounded" in the technology and business world, so take this as it is: A short posting about imaging from someone who was a novice at [...]

By | 2017-05-18T23:53:52-07:00 November 12th, 2013|About|0 Comments

The Job Search: Part 2: Attracting (Pre-Interview)

So you've identified a job you want. Maybe from a friend, or LinkedIn, or just searching around online. How do you proceed? Send them your resume right? WRONG. Well, you're kind of right, but that's not the first thing you do. Lets first discuss what a resume isn't: What A Resume Isn't A Life History [...]

By | 2017-05-18T23:53:52-07:00 September 28th, 2013|About|0 Comments

The Job Search: Part 1: Introduction

While at NAU I took a very special class called BizBlock. Without going into much detail, the class was focused on integrating different aspects of business: Marketing, Communication, and Management. A major part of the class was teaching you how to communicate effectively in a business setting as well as market yourself as an individual. [...]

By | 2017-05-18T23:53:52-07:00 August 14th, 2013|About|0 Comments

Novell Zenworks: Tips & Tricks

For those of you still using Novell Zenworks I've decided to compile a list of tips and tricks I've encountered during my time working with ZCM. Some of these will be obvious to long time users of the software, but hopefully you will learn something. These tips assume you are running Novell Zenworks 11.2. Export [...]

By | 2017-05-18T23:53:52-07:00 July 27th, 2013|About|1 Comment

Welcome to the New Blog!

The Story Well, we've come a long way since about five years ago when I decided I wanted to start blogging about all the interesting things I do in my technical world. After several failed attempts at making my own CMS I decided to cave and go the easy route of Wordpress. My other attempts [...]

By | 2017-05-18T23:53:52-07:00 July 6th, 2013|About|0 Comments