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What is Network Management? Your Complete Guide
In a perfect world, network management would be a breeze. On your first day of managing a new network, you’d find tons of documentation on the IT infrastructure waiting for you. Login credentials...
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What’s the Difference Between Observability vs. Monitoring?
People often conflate monitoring and observability, and I can’t blame them. Marketers often use the terms interchangeably. However, monitoring and observability are two fundamentally different but...
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What is Hierarchical Network Design?
Looking to optimize your network architecture and ensure optimal performance? Hierarchical network design is the key to success. A network must align with the existing requirements of an organization,...
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What is IT Service Management (ITSM)? Everything You Need to Know
At its core, ITSM aims to align IT services with business objectives and coordinate all the moving parts required to keep operations running smoothly. But as IT infrastructure continues to explode in...
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4 Ways to Reduce Your Mean Time to Resolution
Dealing with a high MTTR in your network? Auvik Network Management is a comprehensive network monitoring and troubleshooting solution. With over 50 pre-configured alerts, it keeps you informed about...
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What is ITIL? IT Infrastructure Library Guide
What is ITIL? Created in the 1980s by the British government’s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA), ITIL was initially developed for use in the public sector to create a unified...
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How to Evaluate Your Current Network Management Solution
Is your network management solution still up to the task? With remote work, cloud adoption, IoT, and more pushing networks to evolve rapidly, reliance on an outdated system risks performance issues,...
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What is Network Visibility? A Complete Guide
Network visibility includes gaining insight into connected devices, applications, data flows and user behaviors. Comprehensive visibility enables early threat detection, performance optimizations,...
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9 Healthcare IT Trends to Watch in 2024
On some of the best and worst days of our lives, we rely on the people, processes, and technology of the healthcare system to take care of us at our most vulnerable. This is why healthcare IT is...
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Getting Started With Syslog in Auvik
When something goes wrong in your network, you often don’t find out about it until your users are affected, and you’re left scrambling to identify the issue and understand its root cause. The faster...
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NetFlow Basics: An Introduction to Monitoring Network Traffic
What is NetFlow? NetFlow is a network monitoring protocol, developed by Cisco, designed to capture measurements about the volume and types of traffic traversing a network device. Sounds simple, right?...
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MSP Networking: Definitions, Insights and Strategies
Staying on top of client networks is no walk in the park for MSPs these days. With the growing reliance on cloud apps, distributed workforces, and constant technology changes, network environments...
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What is Network Security?
What is network security? Network security is a combination of software, hardware, and human actions that protect your network from attack. What is network security? Have you ever been in the middle...
View Article3 Switch Features You Should Never Change
In separate incidents this past month, I’ve helped clients troubleshoot network problems that turned out to be due to misconfigured switches. In all cases, the errors turned out to be things that I...
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What is MTTR in Networking?
When a critical system goes down, every second counts. That’s why IT and network professionals need to get comfortable with tracking incident response metrics like MTTR. MTTR (which you’ll soon come...
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The 2023 Network IT Management Report Part 1: Network Management Needs
This is the first in a four-part series focusing on the findings from our 2023 Network IT Management Report. We surveyed 4500 IT professionals from internal IT teams and MSPs acrmoss North America to...
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What’s the Difference Between Observability vs. Monitoring?
People often conflate monitoring and observability, and I can’t blame them. Marketers often use the terms interchangeably. However, monitoring and observability are two fundamentally different but...
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Network Traffic Monitoring in 2024: Discover the Top 7 Solutions
Gaining visibility into data flows has become essential for infrastructure teams in today’s complex environments spanning cloud and on-premises. But with massive traffic across hybrid networks,...
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What Are Network Alerts? Alert Management Guide
It’s the middle of the workday and suddenly your IT team starts receiving calls: systems are slow, applications are unresponsive, and productivity grinds to a halt. Before you know it, you’re...
View Article3 Minor Network Alerts You Shouldn’t Ignore
When you put Auvik on a network for the first time, the software automatically starts monitoring that network for more than 40 potential issues. When Auvik finds an issue, it triggers an alert....
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