Category: Technical
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Event Log Monitors Failing? Check Windows Firewall
In the past week or two we have been receiving a lot of email from customers reporting that their Event Log Monitor has suddenly started failing on a number of servers. We don’t have proof, but we’re guessing a recent Windows Update must have disabled the Remote Event Log Management rules. (Edit): Confirmed! Thanks […]
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10 Server Maintenance Tips for Efficient Server Maintenance
Just like your commercial vehicles or HVAC systems, servers require regular maintenance to ensure they are operating effectively and optimally. So, we decided to compile a list of server maintenance tips you should be doing. Keep in mind, these server maintenance tips are meant to be used as a guide to help you develop […]
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The Top 5 Benefits of Temperature Server Monitoring Solutions
Your servers generate heat—this is a fact common with any type of electronic device. The amount of heat they generate will vary, depending on where they are located and the number of servers in use. For example, a small business may have only one or two servers that are stored in a small server […]
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Recommended Hard Drives Operating Temperature Range
Did you know that hard drives have a recommended operating temperature range? Most people do not think about what happens when they turn on their computer or server and the hard drives begin to whirl around inside. Even if you have the newer solid-state drives (SDDs), you still need to know the recommended hard drives […]
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Recommended Server Room Temperature and Humidity
What are the ideal server room temperature and humidity levels where you store your servers? This is an important question you should know the answer to whether you are responsible for managing racks of servers or a small business owner with a single server. Servers house your data, files, and other information to make […]
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How Active Directory Management Tools Help Quickly Find and Troubleshoot Issues
Active Directory is part of Microsoft Windows software environments primarily for networks where some sort of domain control is required. The service is much more than just authenticating and authoring access to network resources. Active Directory is also used to enforce various network security policies, enable various processes, and enable various services. Active Directory […]
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PA Server Monitor Basics & Getting Started Guide
PA Server Monitor is our flagship product that was designed with the end-user in mind. It is the easiest server monitoring solution to install and use. Once installed, our PA Server Monitor is designed to provide agentless server monitoring to track and monitor various server aspects, including: CPU Usage Memory Usage SNMP, Traps, and Syslog […]
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Custom SNMP Inventory / System Details values
Did you know you can add custom values to the System Details panel that are looked up from a device via SNMP? It’s pretty easy – let me show you how. First, look at C:\Program Files\PA Server Monitor\InventoryList.txt It is a simple file that allows you to specify a title, a type (string […]
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Diagnosing Remote Desktop Application Performance Problems
With so much Work From Home (WFM) going on these days, system administrators likely have many people using Remote Desktop, hopefully through Remote Desktop Gateway, to access their work computers to accomplish their work. Usually Remote Desktop works great – it’s been tuned well and offers good performance. Sometimes it doesn’t and that’s when […]
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Get Alerted When Your External IP Address Changes
We have the most clever customers 🙂 One customer setup a Web Page monitor to watch http://checkip.amazonaws.com which simply returns your current external IP address. The monitor can alert if the returned data changes so that makes it super easy to find out if you address changes. You could even have it run […]