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Guide

Finding Your Way: Mapping Your Network to Improve Manageability

Mapping your network gives engineers and other IT staff a 360-degree view of the entire network. Find out how to use a network map to monitor your network, help with capacity planning, and minimize time spent resolving issues.

How to document SLA performance with network monitoring

Blog

Achieving SLAs and Documenting Performance with Reports

By Kevin Jackson on Mon, 11/21/2016

With network monitoring capabilities, an organization can easily measure the performance they receive from their service provider and compare these statistics against the checkpoints included in the SLA.

Guide

Top 8 Reasons SMBs Need to Monitor their Networks

Read the top 8 reasons small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) should implement network monitoring tools.

Article

Intermapper Application for Splunk Answers Need for Log Analytics in Network Management

By Shamus McGillicuddy on Wed, 09/07/2016

The Intermapper application for Splunk brings together Intermapper's robust network monitoring software with Splunk's high-powered searches and analysis of data stores.

Article

Continuous Performance Data—Without Big Overhead

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016

There are two sides to every Robot Network. It offers centralized control of the Robot software running on your IBM i partitions as well as performance monitoring and exception-based management across your environment.

Article

Why IT Departments Benefit from Upgrading to SNMPv3

By Kevin Jackson on Mon, 08/29/2016

Upgrading to SNMPv3 is a best practice for most organizations, but that doesn't make it the easiest transition. Learn how Intermapper can help you successfully upgrade to and deploy SNMPv3.

Get great network mapping software support. Here’s 7 questions to ask prospective vendors.

Article

7 Questions to Ask About the Support Your Network Mapping Software Provides

By Kevin Jackson on Mon, 08/29/2016

The best network mapping software offers great support. What should great support include? Here are seven questions to ask potential software vendors about the support they provide their users.

Here’s how network monitoring probes work and why they’re important.

Blog

Everything You Need to Know About Network Probes

By Kevin Jackson on Wed, 08/24/2016

What are probes, how do they work, and why are they so essential to network monitoring?

Learn the benefits of using network monitoring with document management

Article

How Network Monitoring and Document Management Work Together

By Kevin Jackson on Wed, 08/24/2016

Maximize productivity and amp up your security by using network monitoring and document management solutions together.

Keep compliant with our comprehensive network monitoring tool

Article

How Intermapper Helps Businesses Stay Compliant

By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 08/19/2016

Keeping up with compliance regulations from governing bodies or your own internal team is essential to prevent security breaches and hefty fines. Learn how our network monitoring software can help keep your business compliant.

Learn how to get the most out of your network monitoring software by streamlining

Blog

5 Steps to Streamline Your Network Monitoring Process

By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 08/19/2016

Learn five ways to maximize the efficiency of your network monitoring solution and streamline its implementation to make sure it's keeping your network as healthy as possible.

Learn about the three key tenets of network optimization

Article

How to Achieve Optimal Network Performance

By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 08/19/2016

Learn three key tenets of network optimization and how a network monitoring software can assist in this task.

7 basics about network monitoring every IT professional should know

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7 Network Monitoring Basics Every IT Professional Should Know

By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 08/19/2016

Every organization has a network. Whether you’re a new IT professional or seasoned in technology management, here are seven network monitoring basics you should know.

Learn how to make the move to IPv6 a smooth transition

Blog

The Impact of IPv6 on Network Management

By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 08/19/2016

With the unstoppable growth of IP-enabled devices, the move to IPv6 has been on the minds of network administators for years. Learn how to prepare for the future with the right software in place.

Blog

Why Businesses Thrive When they Monitor and Report on Network Performance

By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 08/19/2016

Far too many organizations fail to take the proactive approach to network oversight. Learn how monitoring and reporting on network performance helps keep business thriving and customers happy.

Tips on explaining the benefits of network monitoring software

Blog

Tips for Getting the Budget Greenlight on the Network Monitoring Tools You Need

By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 08/19/2016

Getting budgets approved is no easy feat--especially when it comes to software. Here are a few benefits of network monitoring software that can be useful when making a case to upper management.

See what free probes Intermapper has to offer

Article

Our Top 5 Favorite Probes

By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 08/19/2016

Intermapper comes with 150 built-in probes. From SNMP Traffic probes to Host Resources probes, see which ones made our top five list.

Web Based GUI

Blog

User Interfaces: GUI vs. WUI

By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/16/2016

You might be asking yourself, “What’s a WUI?” At Robot, WUI stands for web user interface, and we think it has some big benefits that are giving the GUI a run for its money.

Article

What’s New in the Robot NETWORK Web Interface?

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/16/2016

Just when you were getting used to the GUI, Robot NETWORK gives its web interface a boost that makes managing your performance and Robot product metrics even easier.

Article

Robot and FlashCopy

By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/16/2016

Last month, Chuck Stupca (retired IBMer) and Chuck Losinski (Fortra) presented a webinar discussing FlashCopy for IBM i. Based on the attendance, it looks like this is a very important topic for many of you so I wanted to explain how FlashCopy ties to Robot products.