Blog Posts
Packet Pushers Heavy Networking Podcast
NEW Heavy Networking 624 Podcast: Solving Network Problems With NMIS The latest Packet Pushers Heavy Networking 624 podcast is out, feat. IT Network experts Keith Sinclair, NMIS founder, joining Greg Ferro from Packet Pushers. They’ll discuss; NMIS capabilities for...
FirstWave Extends and Expands Contract With Telstra
FirstWave Cloud Technology Limited (ASX: FCT) (FirstWave), the global cybersecurity technology company, announces the extension and expansion of its contract with key customer Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company. The contract has been extended for...
Using Configuration Management to Detect Unwanted Software
The Log4j vulnerability is the latest cyber exploit, bringing a CVSS critical score of 10. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary Java code on remote computers, including accessing sensitive information. Only a year since the world addressed the SolarWinds supply...
Concerned with Log4Shell or Log4J Vulnerability?
Every Christmas for the last while we have been getting security alerts, last year we got the issues with Solarwinds and this year we got Log4Shell/Log4J CVE-2021-44228 with a CVSS score of 10 (the highest score). Is the Log4Shell or Log4J vulnerability an...
How to stabilise & audit using network configuration and compliance monitoring
What is Network Configuration and Compliance Monitoring Network Configuration and Compliance Monitoring (or NCCM) is a system that works closely with all devices in a set network, transmitting and receiving data from a wide range of devices to ensure that everything...
Automation, is it just a buzzword?
When you hear Opmantek refer to ‘Automation’, it’s not just a buzzword – it’s kind of a big deal! But..what exactly is it, and why should you care? Let’s get to the nuts and bolts of it. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) focuses on automating human processes and...
How SMEs can manage their Network Faults using Event Actions
Fault management is the process of detecting, analysing and responding to faults in a system. It is an essential part of any IT infrastructure because it helps maintain availability and quality of service for applications. Event actions, inside opEvents,...
Why Configuration & Compliance Management Is Crucial
Network security is of paramount concern for all businesses in 2021 and beyond, one facet of network security that should be at the forefront of most organizations is Configuration and Compliance Management. Creating and enforcing configuration and compliance...
4 Best Practices For Automating Your Network Management
This excerpt comes from a blog originally posted on MSP Insights Murphy's Law states: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Equipment always breaks when you're on vacation, often when the on-call engineer is as far away as possible, and with little useful...
How To Leave Work At 5 PM: Visibility, Event Management & Automation
This excerpt comes from a blog originally posted on Packetpushers.net As organizations manage increasingly interdependent network infrastructure in an increasingly chaotic world, how can you, as a Network Operations professional, maintain control of your network...
Packet Pushers: Detect, Diagnose, And Act Podcast
Podcast: Download (46.2MB)Keith Sinclair, CTO and progenitor of NMIS, joins Greg Ferro on Packet Pushers They discuss: What NMIS does and how it works Protocol support including SNMP, WMI, SSH, RESTful APIs, and more The persistence of SNMP Opmantek’s approach of...
Discovery to Monitoring, Automatic & On Your Terms
Introduction So you have this great discovery and auditing tool called Open-AudIT and you also have an amazing monitoring tool called NMIS. How can you automatically take your discovered devices and have NMIS monitor them...and why would you want to? With version...