The author is manager of WorldCast Systems Inc. in Miami. Without question, the introduction of IP network systems into broadcast operations has had a generational impact on our industry. Audio ...

Nagios has been around since 2002 and is considered stable software. It is in use by the likes of American Public Media, JP Morgan Chase and Yahoo, just to name a few. It is an enterprise-level ...

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a necessary tool for every network administrator. You can easily configure it with just a few commands. SNMP is still the most popular way to monitor ...

We have some environmental monitoring set up in our server room that we can query via snmp. What I'd like to do is query these sensors for data and then shutdown a server if the queried value is ...