Tony Dye has an excellent post that is along the lines of my own posts here and here regarding hardware inventory. His wish list seems to communicate even better than my posts what I’d like from the inventory side of things, but I still want a helpdesk to be integrated into the same system. Some […]

I’ve been looking for a good hardware inventory and helpdesk ticket solution. I got two suggestions, OCSInventory and ManageEngine OpManager. I also found a post by Jason Powell about switching to ManageEngine Service Desk Plus. I have a huge amount of respect for Jason and his team, so I’ve tried out the free trial of […]

Jason and his team have been having some trouble with their network and phantom traffic. There’s a good discussion going on about various networking products, including some ups and downs with 3Com switches among others. I was going to comment over there, but I’ve been meaning to post about our network infrastructure anyway. When I […]

We just put in a new core network with all-new switches, along with an extensive wireless network, as part of our new building addition program. In order to determine the best locations to place wireless access points (13 total), we needed to do a site survey. I researched several software tools, and most of them […]

Most people think that when they use traditional VPN technologies, such as PPTP, L2TP, and/or IPSec, that they are opening their network to a full, unfiltered connection from a computer, which is especially bad for a home computer, with unknown anti-virus and anti-spyware status, connected to a work network. This is true. However, with a […]

Trace Pupke wonders about using DHCP or Static IPs on his network, especially in regards to DHCP security. We use DHCP, and I wouldn’t think about trying to manage static IPs, it would be a nightmare. Eventually my plan is to use the new HP ProCurve switches we just got (more coming about those sometime […]