Troubleshooting firewalls

[Network and Systems Mgmt. Tip]

Title: Network and Systems Management

October 06, 2004 Published by  TechTarget Network and Systems Management Issue Sponsored By:   > netViz   > FrontRange Solutions IN THIS ISSUE:   >  Troubleshooting firewalls   >  Practicing network management vs. crisis management   >  Preventing Layer 2 security threats   >  Featured Topic: Who cares about Cisco?   >  Article: SIP promises sweet taste of interoperability   >  Chapter download: Taking Charge of Your VoIP Project   >  SearchNetworking.com Products of the Year Awards - Accepting nominations now   Know Your Network: An Analysis of netViz and Visio In an ever-changing network, troubleshooting and keeping up with network changes, new configurations and changes with end user service requirements is tough. If your existing network documentation tools provide only static diagrams, you must read this paper. Learn how organizations leverage netViz's data-driven visualization capabilities to translate complex business and IT issues into high value displays. Download this Free white paper.   Troubleshooting firewalls [Barrie Sosinsky] The recent release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 highlights one of the problems you can encounter whenever you change your client's security settings with a new firewall of any kind. Programs that may have once worked properly are blocked from operation until you set the firewall correctly. Find out how to figure out what ports are being blocked... Practicing network management vs. crisis management [Charles Thompson] Effectively managing a network means obtaining accurate, objective, and pertinent metrics before you make any decisions, especially decisions to spend money. Preventing Layer 2 security threats [John Bartlomiejczyk and Marcus Phipps, Cisco Systems] Enterprise wiring closets can be easy targets for network security attacks. Find out how you can prevent attacks like MAC address flooding, DHCP server spoofing, man in the middle, and IP host spoofing by taking advantage of common features on your switches.   How to Become a Real-Time Enterprise Learn about the real-time enterprise (RTE), a market driver that creates a new level of cohesion between information and process, when you download Network Management for the Real-Time Enterprise, a free white paper brought to you by FrontRange Written by Debra Curtis, a Gartner analyst, this white paper discusses the RTE's ability to improve the speed of data delivery, resulting in faster overall enterprise automation and performance. Download the white paper   Featured Topic: Who cares about Cisco? Do you need to know what's going on at Cisco? Love it or hate it, what happens there impacts our industry. Find out what the company is up to and how that will affect your network. Article: SIP promises sweet taste of interoperability While some are disappointed that Session Initiation Protocol hasn't spawned more interoperable voice products, experts explain how SIP-based gear will soon unite voice, video and presence on the network. Chapter download: Taking Charge of Your VoIP Project Building a Business Case for VoIP Chapter two of Taking Charge of Your VoIP Project by John Q. Walker and Jeffrey T. Hicks explains how to build a business case for VoIP. It points out some of the benefits that VoIP can provide and discusses how to analyze return on investment for VoIP implementation and management. (Reproduced from the book Taking Charge of Your VoIP Project, ISBN 1587200929, Copyright 2004, Cisco Systems, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., 800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46240. Written permission from Pearson Education, Inc. is required for all other uses. 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