Integrate your network alarms with Microsoft Teams
2020 was a year of incredible change—changes that I believe will have a lasting impact, but also changes that require immense flexibility with traditional...
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Custom script-based sensor for PRTG
Today I would like to explain how to create a custom script that sends specific information to PRTG as a sensor. Customers often ask...
How to improve response time for life-critical network events with Plixer Scrutinizer
The healthcare industry has been on red alert for more than a year now. Workloads have doubled and the amount of time required to...
Monitoring Microsoft Teams traffic with Plixer Scrutinizer
The modern workplace is filled with companies working largely over inter-office messaging systems. These tools often leverage several different functions aside from chatting, such...
Defining top talkers with Flexible NetFlow and AVC
I was recently on a call with a customer who wanted to know which applications use the most bandwidth during working hours—i.e. their top...
Monitoring applications with Plixer Scrutinizer
Monitoring applications is a useful tool in the network administrators tool belt and I’d like to go over how Scrutinizer can help monitor your...
Integrating Plixer and Aruba: sFlow, IPFIX, and ClearPass
This blog will focus on Plixer’s current capability to extract flow from the different solutions Aruba has to offer today. I will go over...
How to get the best ROI for your SIEM: Tips on picking the right NDR
Has management made enhancing your network monitoring toolset with an NDR component a priority for the new year? Have the demands of the pilgrimage...
The importance of monitoring Windows 10 updates
Microsoft has redone their release cycle format, and although it makes things easier for the end user, it can prove difficult to ensure your...
First look: Plixer’s machine learning engine explained
The purpose of this blog is to de-mystify the hype around machine learning (ML) by exploring three topics: What kind of ML is Plixer...