Category: Power Admin
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67% of the U.S. Rooting for Kansas City Royals
No, the map below has nothing to do with politics. Or unemployment. Or scary viruses. A whopping 67% of the country is rooting for the Kansas City Royals…as shown below! And why not? They have a lot of things going for them. An amazing fan base. A team of young players that love baseball. They […]
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Shellshock vulnerability – worse than HeartBleed 🙁
Do you remember HeartBleed from a few months back? There’s another huge vulnerability that just came to light: Shellshock. And this one is much worse than HeartBleed 🙁 Shellshock is based on a vulnerability in the Unix/Linux bash command processor. Bash can be forced to execute commands stored as ‘environment variables’ and unfortunately, many programs […]
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How to deploy a new VM on Hyper-V
Now that we’ve seen how to install and configure Hyper-V Server role on our Windows Server 2012 machine, it’s time to deploy a new Virtual Machine using our virtualization product. Note that by now you should have a Windows Server 2012 running Hyper-V. If you haven’t read the last article please read it here before […]
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Infographic: Google+ or Facebook for your Business?
It is a debate that has been going on for years, which is better for business, Facebook or Google+? In past blogs the answer had always come down to one thing … audience. And in that specific competition Facebook wins hands down. It is true, as the most popular social network, Facebook, has held the […]
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PA Server Monitor Receives 5 Star Gold Award!
Power Admin’s PA Server Monitor was reviewed by Microsoft MVP, Mitch Tulloch. It was given a Gold Star Award, with a full 5 out of 5 stars…it’s highest award! You can find the article here: WindowsNetworking.com Product Reviews. Check it out, and let us know what you think!
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Server Monitoring Best Practices
We often get asked about suggested practices for monitoring servers and it’s a legitimate request – there are so many moving parts it’s hard to know where to start. There are two things you want your monitoring to do for you: Watch systems 24×7 and alert you if there is a problem Show you current […]
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4 of the Top 10 Places for Ribs in Kansas City
“The Daily Meal just released a list of America’s 35 Best Ribs — and Kansas City pretty much dominated the Top 10. Four local barbecue joints are among the food website’s top 10 picks for best ribs: Jack Stack, Gates, Arthur Bryant’s and Oklahoma Joe’s.” Working at an office within 15 minutes of 4 of […]
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The Heartbleed Bug – PA Product Upgrades
On Monday, April 7th, the OpenSSL Project released an update to address a serious security issue – CVE-2014-0160 – nicknamed “Heartbleed”. PA Server Monitor, PA Storage Monitor and PA File Sight all use OpenSSL as part of the internal HTTPS server. On April 10th, we released version 5.4 of each of the above applications, which […]
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USB Rocket Launcher as an Alert
Think server monitoring can’t be fun? Think again! Try out our USB Rocket Launcher alert. PA Server Monitor can launch small USB rockets as an alert type. 🙂 The Dream Cheeky Thunder USB Missile Launcher (purchased separately) can be attached to the server where the PA Server Monitor is installed via the USB cable. The […]
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Server Monitoring Best Practices
As a business, you may be running many on-site or Web-based applications and services. Security, data handling, transaction support, load balancing, or the management of large distributed systems. The deployment of these will depend on the condition of your servers. So it’s vital for you to continuously monitor their health and performance. Here are some […]