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When IT teams set out to monitor the Internet of Things (IoT), they too often settle for situations where, say, a networked sensor sends plausible measurements at an expected interval, which ... Keeping track of a large number of Internet of Things devices means understanding IoT networks, developing suitable monitoring metrics, and (ideally) integrating the IoT with infrastructure
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whether IPv6 can provide a full-fledged alternative to IPv4 on today's networks. Despite my initial euphoria, reality hit me hard during my testing sessions and turned this article into a report about my ... Most clients on a network need both an address and some environmental information such as a name server or a web proxy. This article investigates whether a recent operating system on an IPv6-only LAN
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A switch port is the entryway into a network. Depending on network size, there may be thousands of access ports or more distributed across a campus or building. Imagine thousands of doors all over ... What happens when an intruder with a laptop parks at an empty cubicle and attaches to your local network? If you don't want to find out, it might be time to think about implementing some switch port
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Open-AudIT helps you to discover all of your IT resources. The software automatically identifies the devices and applications on your network, giving you up-to-date information at any time, which ... Open-AudIT inventories, manages, and monitors IT assets, whether hardware, software, network device, or virtual machine. We explain how to install the software and work through the initial
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of the extended boot procedure, the configured network interface (NIC) eth0 on the original has mutated into a NIC named eth1, and the numbers of other NICs have been increased by one. A similar thing happens ... For many cloud admins, the kernel's udev system and associated rules equate to infinite renumbering of network interfaces and manual adjustment. We show how to keep on top of these tasks without
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MikroTik is a Latvian manufacturer of network equipment whose main audience comprises small Internet service providers (ISPs) and wireless connectivity providers. What makes MikroTik's offerings ... of professional network gear.
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managed switches support link aggregation, you should look at the data sheet to be sure. The same is true for IP-based iSCSI and NFS/CIFS storage systems. Servers need at least two network cards ... For once, admins and users agree: They want more resiliency and higher bandwidth on the network. Link aggregation, in line with IEEE 802.1ax b-2008, offers both – with some minor restrictions.
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it to a network repository. Once the patch is in the repository, the admin then tests the patch in a test or development environment. If any issues arise with the patch, the admin contacts whoever issued the patch ... Keep your whole network up to date with Satellite Server – an enterprise-ready patch management system closely tied to Red Hat's prolific update service.
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Even small companies keep data on a central network storage device. All you need to build a network-attached storage (NAS) solution yourself is a server and the free Rockstor [1] operating system ... Set up network-attached storage and manage it from a web interface with Rockstor, the easy-to-install and free Linux distribution that uses the still new Btrfs filesystem.
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directly, but they use the network subsystem and are thus slower. Even with the potential detour of converting the qcow2 image to raw with qemu-img convert, you will still save a fair amount of time ... on the network.
