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IT Systems Monitoring Solutions Overview

Posted on August 9, 2011 by David Orlo

When it comes to IT monitoring software you nearly need a Bachelor’s degree from the software provider just to manage the damn thing, and we won’t even get into the complications involved in setting it all up. Its no secret I often fantasize about the perfect piece of monitoring software for specific tasks and all in one style solutions. At one point in the last year it was a task of mine to research all monitoring solutions I could find and come up with something affordable, fairly straight forward and easy to manage and it needed to scale well. By

Client Configuration for Microsoft PPTP VPN

Posted on August 12, 2010 by David Orlo

Ok a while back I promised a part 2 for the VPN configuration guides so here it finally is. I dont know why i didnt get this done sooner considering it will be quick and painless. I will cover both XP and Windows 7 but not Vista. Dont worry Vista is a combination of both so you can figure it out from the following screenshots and article. I will start by covering a few things that apply to any client OS. First you need to get the IP address of the server that you wish to connect VIA VPN to.

Resolve Names on a home network without DNS

Posted on December 13, 2009 by David Orlo

I will create a more complete guide with pictures and all later. I want to get this down while its fresh in my head. So the point of this guide is to make your home network act like it has a real DNS server and not just a Linksys, D-link, Netgear or whatever brand router. This guide will be based around a D-link brand router since it’s what I own and have on hand. Note: some older routers (especially Linksys) simply pass DNS to your external ISP servers. This is bad and if this is the case then this guide