Keep calm and standardize - Checks

The word that we love and fear.

By: Brian C Teasley

Part 2

We all know that standardizing our IT practices makes us more efficient and profitable.  However creating those standards can be a rather daunting task.

Let's focus on the basics of check management.

Every machine you install will automatically detect and create checks. And this is a great thing!  If only every machine wasn't set to different check thresholds.

Let's look at how we can make these changes effectively.

Would you believe...

Written by David Ianetta

One of my favorite shows growing up was "Get Smart" with Don Adams. That show was famous for reoccurring gag lines like, "Missed it by that much!" and my favorite, "would you believe..."

When ever Maxwell Smart was telling a cover story and could see by the look on someone's face they were not "buying what he was selling" he would keep diminishing the fabricated story until he eventually gave up.

Keep up with your Dashboard Skillset, request a Tech Walk!

by David Ianetta

Once upon a time we could count on twelve years of school followed by some college and then happily say goodbye to books and study.

Sure, we might want to improve a skill here or there, but once you landed a good job the rest of your education was combined with experience.

As Aerosmith sang, "Dream On...Dream On..."

Those of us who work in the IT field we know that time has long past. We constantly need to improve our skill set, or get left behind.

Give me a break...

By: Ernest Byrd

     Performance Monitoring Checks are essential for understanding the Health of the Servers in your Client's environment.  But what do you do when you want to quiet the Alerts down for a little bit?  Maybe for that routine Backup that you know occurs every week night.  

Does this look familiar?

If it does, then you have discovered the option to pause communication for the GFI MAX Advanced Monitoring Agent.  That is great, but can be quite time consuming when you have to do this manually for each Server Agent.  Let me tell you a story of a way to reduce some Alert noise and place your Agent into "Maintenance Mode".