Native Modbus TCP Support in netTerrain for DCIM Applications (Part 3): Supplied Application & Testing
By Jan Durnhofer - February 26, 2024In part 1 of this blog series, we went over the basics of Modbus and what support for this well-known industrial protocol exists in netTerrain DCIM, along with its limitations. In the second part of the series, we looked at the Modbus configuration process in netTerrain, as well as the Modbus configuration file. In this…
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Native Modbus TCP Support in netTerrain for DCIM Applications (Part Two): Configuration
By Jan Durnhofer - February 23, 2024In part 1 of this blog series, we went over the basics of Modbus and what support for this well-known industrial protocol exists in netTerrain, along with its limitations. Here, in the second part of the series, we will go over the Modbus configuration process in netTerrain DCIM. Our Modbus TCP monitoring implementation is different…
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Integrating Nagios with netTerrain for Automated Network Diagram Mapping
By Jan Durnhofer - February 21, 2024In network management, it’s common for businesses to use different tools for monitoring networks and then for documenting IT infrastructure. In a sense, it’s like trying to use separate apps for 1000 emails or more and the same number of appointments — which can lead to a gap between a network’s actual status and its…
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Native Modbus TCP Support in netTerrain for DCIM Applications (Part One)
By Jan Durnhofer - February 20, 2024With the release of version 9.6 last year, netTerrain started supporting the Modbus TCP protocol for network and infrastructure device monitoring purposes in Data Center Infrastructure (DCIM) applications. What is Modbus? Modbus is a widely used communication protocol in industrial automation systems that enables data exchange between devices within a network. The Modbus protocol was…
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Integrating PRTG with netTerrain for Automated Network Diagram Mapping
By Jan Durnhofer - February 12, 2024Most network monitoring tools don’t really show you what’s going on in a visual way – it’s like reading a technical manual without any pictures (check out a blog that goes more into this called “what network documentation is not”). Usually, companies will use one set of tools to keep an eye on their network…
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Integrating BMC Remedy with netTerrain for Automated Network Diagram Mapping
By Jan Durnhofer - January 29, 2024BMC Remedy is not just an IT service management (ITSM) platform; it’s a comprehensive solution that propels organizations to automate and enhance their IT processes and service delivery. This platform equips users with features for incident, problem, change, configuration, knowledge, and service level management. BMC Remedyalso integrates effortlessly with a variety of other IT systems,…
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Integrating Zabbix with netTerrain for Automated Network Diagram Mapping
By Jan Durnhofer - January 25, 2024To optimize IT infrastructures, ensure seamless ops, and minimize downtime, today’s organizations are pulling off a high-tech juggling act that’s not for the faint of heart. The need for robust and efficient monitoring and management solutions has become increasingly paramount. The paradox here is that most monitoring solutions offer little to no visual representation or…
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Integrating WhatsUp Gold with netTerrain for Automated Network Diagram Mapping
By Jan Durnhofer - January 8, 2024In today’s digital era, efficient management of IT infrastructures is crucial for business continuity and keeping the network up and running. Monitoring and management solutions are key to this — but a major issue is that many monitoring tools offer limited visual and documentation functionalities (check out this blog for more background: What Network Documentation…
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Advanced Integration of ServiceNow with netTerrain
By Nadia Sharabarova - August 16, 2023ServiceNow, a cloud-based platform that provides a single view of IT, operations, and business management, is used by organizations of all sizes to automate workflows, improve efficiency, and deliver better customer experiences. As you may know, ServiceNow’s platform is based on the ITIL framework, which is a set of best practices for IT service management….
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Where the ?!? Can I Get a Network Diagram Generator?
By Fred Koh - August 10, 2023Is your network getting too big to manage with your existing spreadsheets and manual diagrams? Want to know if there’s something called a network diagram generator that can go out and create a network map of my IT equipment so you don’t have to guess if your spreadsheets were last updated or how old and…
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Will Network Diagram Software Visualize Your Third-Party Apps & Data?
By Fred Koh - July 3, 2023Tired of dealing with network headaches stemming from a lack of insights and visibility? If, for example, you’re a new company network administrator, it can be a real…errr maybe downright impossible….challenge to figure out what’s installed without doing a tedious site survey, right? And let’s be honest, those spreadsheets and manual network diagrams in a…
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Make Your CA Spectrum Diagrams Sing
By Jan Durnhofer - June 17, 2019I remember way back in my Concord (and later when I worked for CA) days: I took a liking to the recently acquired Spectrum network discovery software (this was probably around 2004 or 2005). Spectrum was one of the first tools that I remember was capable of bringing in link data from an SNMP discovery…
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