Tag: network analysis

Here is a recap of articles I posted in May to my blog at Netcordia: “How’s the network running? More on SLAs” discusses Service Level Agreements (SLAs) based on network [...]

Maybe you missed the articles I made in March to my blog at Netcordia: “NANOG Posting on Configuration Analysis“ adds to a recent exchange on the NANOG mailing list about [...]

Networks use the same devices in many different roles, so configuration validation based on device type isn’t sufficient. There are some configuration things that can be checked across all the [...]

My previous post NANOG Posting on Configuration Analysis talked about the basics of verifying a configuration prior to deployment as a way to minimize the number of incorrect configurations that [...]

Here is a list of the articles I posted in February to my blog at Netcordia: “Network Management Sucks!!!“ discusses why I think Jimmy Ray Purser, a blogger for Cisco [...]

Jimmy Ray Purser, a blogger and video blogger for Cisco and Network World, just did Applied Infrastructure blog under

I recently did a recording for Cisco of a presentation that I’ve done at VoiceCon about troubleshooting VoIP in converged networks.   This recording, along with links to the audio files [...]

I’m sure that most of you have some sort of Applied Infrastructure blog under

While I was at VoiceCon in San Francisco, CA a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to stop by Cisco and record two video segments for the What CIOs [...]

One of the new technology rages in the market today is Cloud Computing (and Storage), of which S3, SQS, SimpleDB, EC2, and HaDoop) is one example.  As I was reading [...]

SNMP is a pretty reasonable system for retrieving device data, but its implementation has a few warts.  Well, it isn’t really an SNMP problem as much as it is a [...]

We just announced the NetMRI Event Analysis system, which analyzes syslog and snmp trap events, and is pretty exciting (see Applied Infrastructure blog under