Why did we develop a Remote Workers Agent? COVID-19 came full swing in the US in the middle of March of 2020. We were suddenly bombarded with requests such as, “How do we use NetBeez to troubleshoot VPN issues” and “My boss says blaming my ISP for network issues is…
Run NetBeez on a Smart SFP I am happy to announce that NetBeez and PlumSpace, a vendor of Smart SFPs, have successfully tested an integration between the two company’s products. This integration enables PlumSpace users to install NetBeez agents on their Smart SFPs and gain the benefits of high performance…
With the rise of the remote work/telework, network engineers have shifted from being enablers of connectivity to drivers of productivity. As a former network engineer, I realize this isn’t a trivial shift. Given the impact the recent pandemic is having on the nature of the workplace, we need to consider…
Times are changing. The network is growing even more strategic and complex. Here’s how your team can keep up. In a recent article, Stefano Gridelli, CEO of NetBeez, discusses the drivers of network complexity in the new remote/#WFH era. There are certain “must have” capabilities required to scale network team…
Hundreds of miles away from their headquarters they’ve added a new switch in a manufacturing plant. There is a bandwidth issue, but they cannot pinpoint the problem. On-site personnel think it’s the network, but their WAN monitoring tools indicate their switches and routers are properly functioning. Yet the intermittent problems…
We have talked about how to use nmap to detect the OS of a remote host. Nmap does that by sending probing packets and depending on the responses may or may not be able to identify the remote OS with a certain accuracy. That can work well in many cases,…
University Medical Network Team Reduces Root Cause Analysis Time by 75% What do you do when your network engineers are scrambling across hundreds of locations to resolve potential network issues only to find out that after almost two weeks of monitoring each site many of them weren’t even the network?…
There are multiple ways to get a file from a remote Linux host. To name a few: scp, sftp, tftp, http/https… And you could probably add more in the list. Depending on your requirements in terms of security, ease of use, availability, and set-up effort you have to decide what…
Miles of fiber. Dozens of vendors. Temporary, critical networks serving hundreds of thousands of event attendees set up in days. A couple weeks ago I had the chance to talk to Travis Banks, TOURTech’s Director of Technical Operations, about the temporary but critical network demands of the large scale event…
mtr stands for “My Traceroute” and, in a nutshell, it’s traceroute on steroids. They both work the same way: a host sends probing packets to routers, measures and reports latency and packet loss. mtr takes that to the next level by giving you the ability to run the probe packets…
