=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TechTarget | Network and Systems Management June 4, 2003 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FROM OUR SPONSOR: Quick Guide to Windows Server 2003 http://searchNetworking.com/r/0,,14662,00.htm?microsoft ___________________________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE | Table of Contents
1. NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT TIPS - Today's Featured Tip: Create a program inventory - Enhance performance by creating a dedicated server backbone - Ten data protection recommendations 2. ESSENTIAL LINKS - Are you attending CeBIT? Think you might be hungry? - White paper: Dealing with network performance degradation - Expert advice on network measurement/diagnostics - Networking Decisions Conference - Make plans to attend! ___________________________________________________________________ *****************>> Sponsored by Microsoft <<******************* The Quick Guide to Windows Server 2003. Get the latest information on installation, new features and training. Click here: http://searchNetworking.com/r/0,,14662,00.htm?microsoft =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TODAY'S FEATURED NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT TIP CREATE A PROGRAM INVENTORY by Barrie Sosinsky When you set up a Unix client or server system you know what programs are installed on it. Over time people modify the system and add programs and new versions of older programs to the system. If you know what the role of the computer is on your network, then it is straightforward to inventory the important programs on the system. If not, you need to poke around to create the application program inventory that you may need. Read the entire tip here: http://www.searchNetworking.com/tip/1,289483,sid7_gci904226,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ENHANCE PERFORMANCE BY CREATING A DEDICATED SERVER BACKBONE by Brien M. Posey Have you ever looked at how much overhead traffic your servers are putting onto your network? If not, you might be surprised. Windows servers are constantly sending things like replication traffic and time syncs across the network. All of this traffic steals bandwidth from your other network nodes. One way you can combat the problem is to create a dedicated server backbone. Click here to learn how: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid7_gci886129,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TEN DATA PROTECTION RECOMMENDATIONS Laura Sanders, vice president of storage management products from IBM Tivoli offers these recommendations to boost you data protection schema. Click here: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid7_gci888470,00.html ___________________________________________________________________ For more network and systems management tips and advice, visit the extensive tip library on SearchNetworking.com: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid7_tax289202_alpD_idx0,00.html ___________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= :::::::::::::::::::::::: ESSENTIAL LINKS :::::::::::::::::::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ARE YOU ATTENDING CEBIT? | SearchNetworking.com WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T GET A FREE MEAL IN NEW YORK? This month a few of us from SearchNetworking.com will be heading to New York to cover CeBIT, Europe's behemoth technology trade show's American debut. While we're there we'd like to meet up with you. At the conference, June 18 and 19, we would like to touch base with a few of our readers to learn more about how SearchNetworking.com does and does not meet your needs. The first five qualified readers to e-mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your name, contact information, job title and a brief job description will be taken to dinner by the site's editorial staff. So don't be shy -- lunch may not be free, but dinner will be on us. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FEATURED WHITE PAPER | Traffic and everything like traffic DEALING WITH NETWORK PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION By Loki Jorgenson, Ph.D., SearchNetworking.com site expert If you were to treat each cause of performance degradation as a unique kind of problem, optimizing your network's performance becomes a near impossible task. On a typical IP network, traffic is anticipated as part of the design. Traffic conditions can sometimes create congestion, or other conditions may exist that degrade performance. The challenge in troubleshooting your network is to detect traffic, distinguish it from other problems, determine if it is reasonable and the performance degradation inevitable. If it really is traffic, then you know any bandwidth you throw at your network is well spent. And if it isn't traffic, now you know -- and you can just fix it. Read the entire white paper: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid7_gci903169,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= EXPERT ADVICE | Network Measurement/Diagnostics Loki Jorgenson, research director at jaalaM Technologies discusses performance variances and testing methodologies in this Q&A collection: Q&A: Testing methodology http://www.searchNetworking.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid7_cid534738_tax293255,00.html Q&A: Performance variances http://www.searchNetworking.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid7_cid534735_tax293255,00.html Click here to learn more about Dr. Jorgenson: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/ateExpertBio/0,289623,sid7_cid507001,00.html Click here to ask your network measurement/diagnostics question: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid7_cid507001_tax293255,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NETWORKING DECISIONS CONFERENCE | Atlanta, GA - Nov. 5-7, 2003 NEW FRONTIERS OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Session description: To reduce operational costs, customers look to network and system management systems that allow for "management by exception." These systems not only diagnose and report on problems, but also fix problems without requiring constant IT staff intervention. In this session, Jean-Pierre Garbani, director, Giga Information Group provides you with the value proposition of network and systems management systems and how they provide effective services that increase the business productivity and improve operation staff efficiency. Plus, as IBM, HP and Sun are bringing self healing and self provisioning technologies to the data center, the underlying automation and virtualization supporting grid computing will also change the way the networking infrastructures are managed. Find out how from one of the top speakers from last year's conference as he returns with new insights you can't afford to miss. Don't miss out. 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