We are coming up to our 100^th fix and I have been searching for a great one. This may take some time to find but if I find one in the mean time I will make sure to save it for our 100^th fix.

Ok, I know it's kinda geeky to get excited about the 100^th fix but I love this stuff. I am very happy when I look at our hits and realize that we have helped may people with some not so common fixes. BTW, please feel free to join LNA and post any fixes that you may have found! Remember this site is nothing without the lazy admins who use our fixes.

Have a great day and stay lazy!

~Chey

The name of the product is FirePlotter and you can find it at http://www.fireplotter.com/index.php

Why choose fireplotter? Well:

FirePlotter shows you the traffic that is flowing through your internet connection - in real-time. FirePlotter is a real-time session monitor, bandwidth monitor or connection monitor for your Cisco or FortiNet firewall.

For me it went down like this...

Someone is hogging all of my bandwidth! But I can't tell who it is because I don't have a $5000.00 FortAnalyzer! I know, I'll call support, they can help

Supports actual answer,

I have been using Altiris for several months and just went thru training on it.

I will be posting some content soon to help admins with manageing workstations using Altiris!

A lot of what I have done in my network will be added to this new catagory soon and hopefully it will keep you lazy.

Sorry that I have been gone for awhile. I just started a new job as the Director of Information Technology for a law firm. But I am working on some new scripts and will be rolling them out soon. I hope they make your life easier and keep you lazy!

Thanks,

Keeping up your network Infrastructure is a difficult task. Especially, when going through red tape. It is hard to get management to buy into new servers and switches when they are out of date and out of warranty. This is because they look at the network as an old car that can be fixed up and run forever. Hello! Your corporate infrastructure is NOT an old car. What can an admin do? Well, for starters you must document all failures and making graphs help. Make sure you have base lines and make a comparison of the issues you are having. When management can see this on paper with pretty graphs, they realize that they must act and then the burden is taken off of your shoulders. Oh, and make sure to get them so sign off on approving measures to improve the infrastructure or not. Keep a copy of this for yourself. As an old boss of mine always said, “CYA insurance”!

Managing a small network is not too difficult, but you can make it easier.

I really recommend installing applications from http://www.adventnet.com/.If you have a small network to manage you can use their enterprise class software for free.

Each of their suites of management software comes with a free version which has almost all of the paid versions functionality. Usually, you can monitor 5 - 10 computers/servers and this is great for us admins looking to make our jobs easier without making a purchase request for software that costs thousands.You do know that each time accounting sees you coming, they wonder how much it's gonna cost them. But
with using Adventnet's software you can provide services on the cheap.