Solarwinds Users, Make Network Documentation Easy Using netTerrain
By Fred Koh - April 19, 2023Do you use Solarwinds?Are you fed up with struggling to keep track of all your network devices, their locations, and associated metadata? Having trouble managing your network documentation and visualizing the relationships between IT? netTerrain is network documentation software (and visualization) that you can use to document and visualize your network. With netTerrain, understanding and…
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Network Discovery vs. Network Monitoring
By Fred Koh - March 24, 2023Hey, new network Admin! Congrats on your new gig! So, when you fire up your computer and start digging into the company’s network, do you ever feel like you’re Peter in Office Space, trying to figure out what the heck is going on with the TPS reports? Are you desperately searching for spreadsheets and Visio…
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How Can I Import Data into Network Documentation Software?
By Fred Koh - September 23, 2022On a daily basis, I talk to many folks who need network documentation software. In many cases — certainly not all — these folks already have some kind of network documentation that they don’t want to lose. Whether it’s for network discovery and mapping, managing data center(s), or your fiber plant infrastructure (inside/outside plant), one…
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Need to Migrate Your Network Documentation to a Modern Solution?
By Jason Sherman - September 20, 2022So, you have a system with your network documentation in it. Great, right — but here’s the catch: the system was built on an AS400 mainframe and takes punch cards to update the data?! Are you wondering, ”how the heck do I go about migrating to something a bit newer?” Good news: it may not…
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Getting Started with REST API: Part 3 (Collections, Filters, Expansions)
By Jan Durnhofer - July 25, 2022Welcome back to the final post in our series on getting started with netTerrain’s REST API. In the first blog post we reviewed some of the basic setup procedures to get started with the netTerrain REST API. In the second blog post, we delved a bit deeper into data retrieval, writing into netTerrain and deleting…
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Getting Started with REST API: Part 2 (Data Retrieval, Writing, Deletions)
By Jan Durnhofer - July 18, 2022Welcome back to our series on getting started with netTerrain’s REST API. In the previous blog post we reviewed some of the basic setup procedures to get started with the netTerrain REST API. Here we will go a bit deeper into data retrieval, writing into netTerrain and deleting some stuff. As a quick refresher: this…
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Getting Started with REST API: Part 1 (Basic Procedures)
By Jan Durnhofer - July 12, 2022We make netTerrain — an IT documentation & visualization platform for data centers(DCIM), networks(Logical), and fiber plants(OSP) — easy to integrate with third-party databases via pre-built connectors and highly extensible, well-documented APIs. We get a lot of questions from customers that appreciate our swagger REST API documentation but still struggle a bit to get started….
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3 Network and Data Center Diagramming Success Stories
By Fred Koh - May 18, 2022Considering a software program to document your network, your data centers inventory, and your cabling? Have you outgrown tools like Visio and spreadsheets and you’re ready to find a centralized, visual repository to view, search, report, and find information quickly? If you are, you may be curious as to how other organizations are using netTerrain…
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Outdated Network Documentation Solution? How to Replace It
By Fred Koh - May 2, 2022You know what they say about the best laid plans…they don’t always go according to plan! “I’d like to get home by 5PM and catch up on my tv shows, play more with my kids…or maybe I’m so backlogged with my work tickets and need to make progress”…and then boom: a network outage happens just…
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What is Automated Network Mapping?
By Fred Koh - April 20, 2022Automated network mapping is often discussed in forums like Spiceworks and Reddit. Folks ask questions like, “should I get it…?” or “which mapping tool do you recommend?”. If you’re reading this, you may be wondering, before you dive in further as to whether you need it or not: what is automated network mapping, anyways? What…
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Shadow IT? Mitigate Your Risks with Network Documentation
By Jan Durnhofer - December 17, 2021The threat of Shadow IT… it sounds like something out of a Stephen King book or B-horror movie. I can see it now: “scary IT resources that are lurking and waiting — in the shadows — to attack at any minute or hour…coming to a network near you!” In this blog, we’ll look at what…
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Use Network Diagram Software? Integrating Network Tools Should Be Easy
By Fred Koh - May 26, 2021Network diagrams, as we’ve often discussed in this blog, are just visual depictions of the network. They can be as simple (think: post-it notes) or as detailed as you need (think: automatically generated logical diagrams that show the network in real-time). They map out what you have in the network, where it all is, and…
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