| | Find Out How PacketTrap Perspective Fills Your Network Management Needs – Now With VMware Support | | Petri IT Knowledgebase | | 12/3/2008 | | There are a lot of network management systems out there but not a lot of them make network management easy for the network manager. I have worked with PacketTrap since the days of their free pt360 network troubleshooting tools and I have always seen their goal of making network management "easy" evident in their network management products. Since that introduction of their free tool, PacketTrap has come a long way and now offers a comprehensive network monitoring and management system called Perspective. | Read more...
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| | Will IT Management Go SaaS? | | InformationWeek | | 11/19/2008 | | Forrester Research forecasts SaaS will take a modest bite out of the IT management market. The big surprise is the high level of interest from medium-sized and large enterprises.
One of the busiest areas of startup activity we see at InformationWeek is in IT management. Companies such as Spiceworks, PacketTrap, and Zenoss are making waves with low cost products that provide a respectable set of functions without a lot of deployment pain. Check out our lab review of these products here. | Read more...
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| | PacketTrap: It Manages Networks AND Disaster Recovery | | eWeek | | 11/4/2008 | | It's always great news to find out that something you bought actually works the way it is supposed to work. It's even better news to find that it delivers more value than you ever thought possible.
The following use-case story is about PacketTrap, a provider of network management software and services, including applications for performance management and response-time analysis.
The 3-year-old company's products provide IT administrators, system admins, and network engineers diagnostic, discovery, inventory, and monitoring tools to manage their applications, servers, and network infrastructure. PacketTrap has offices in Silicon Valley and Calcutta, India. | Read more...
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| | 10 IT Management Start-ups to Watch | | Network World | | 11/3/2008 | | Company: PacketTrap Networks
Founded: May 2007
Headquarters: San Francisco
Focus: The Perspective platform can be used to monitor network performance, manage faults and report on device availability data. It's targeted at organizations with between 100 and 5,000 employees. (Compare Network Monitoring and Management products.) | Read more...
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| | PacketTrap Networks' Perspective Software Now Includes Virtualization Monitoring | | Virtualization.com | | 10/28/2008 | | PacketTrap Networks is set to announce that its network troubleshooting and remediation solution, Perspective, now includes virtualization monitoring. The free virtualization module helps IT managers identify virtual machines and other resources throughout their life cycles. It is integrated into Perspective’s dashboard, which Richard Ptak from Ptak & Associates (www.ptaknoelassociates.com) calls a “powerful and intuitive interface that makes the task of getting information much easier.” | Read more...
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| | Infrastructure Management Startups Bring Big-Company Capabilities to SMBs | | InformationWeek | | 10/14/2008 | | If you're like many small and midsize businesses, your budget for network monitoring tools is somewhere between small and nonexistent. And even if you could afford the tools offered by network management's "Big Four"--BMC Software, CA, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM Tivoli--their features would probably be overkill.
Some network management startups have entered the market with products that fill the small-budget void by bringing big-company capabilities at a price that's 10 cents on the dollar or less than those of those high-end platforms. Here we look at offerings from PacketTrap, Spiceworks, and Zenoss, all founded in 2006 or later. Each targets a network management niche, aiming at specific pain points common to SMBs. | Read more...
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| | How can PacketTrap Perspective Help you Manage your Cisco Network? | | TechRepublic | | 10/9/2008 | | As network management systems have been around just about as long as networks have, you would think that they had matured to the point of there being very few features left to add. Recently, I was invited to learn about a brand new network management platform called Perspective, from PacketTrap.
What is the PacketTrap Perspective? | Read more...
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| | PacketTrap Launches Network Troubleshooting Solution Perspective | | eChannelLine | | 10/9/2008 | | Network management solutions provider PacketTrap has launched Perspective, a new network troubleshooting solution developed for single and multiple-site networks.
Designed with the input of 10,000 network administrators, Perspective is designed to simplify time-consuming network management tasks like application monitoring, traffic troubleshooting, router configuration and log file management via a central management console. | Read more...
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| | Getting the Network Administrator Home at Night with PacketTrap | | Realtime Community | | 10/3/2008 | | The job of the network administrator appears never-ending. Constantly searching through monitoring data to isolate and solve the problem of the day means long hours and few nights home with family. The problem often isn't that there's not enough data to identify network problems and performance issues, but usually that there's too much.
This week I sat down with Matt Bolton of PacketTrap, a brand new network monitoring solutions provider in the market. This company sells a network monitoring product called Perspective that is designed to assist the network administrator with just these sorts of problems. | Read more...
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| | Does your Network Management Utility Manage VMware? | | ITKnowledge Exchange - Tech Target | | 10/1/2008 | | More and more of the typical “physical computer” management & monitoring tools are being retooled to manage the new virtual infrastructure. I have talked with both Packettrap and Solarwinds and both have rumored that they will soon offer versions of their well known network management tools that will now recognize, not only network devices and physical servers, but the virtual guest operating systems that are on those physical servers. | Read more...
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| | PacketTrap Releases New Network Management System - Perspective | | Tech Target - ITKnowledge Exchange | | 9/30/2008 | | PacketTrap is a new “startup” network management company. I have been a fan of their free “pt360″ tool that gives you a single console for a variety of network management & troubleshooting tools. Besides the free version, they also have commercial versions of the pt360 that offer more features like built in Cisco management tools. | Read more...
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| | Clean-n-Easy Network Troubleshooting and Remediation | | WindowsITPro | | 9/25/2008 | | Do you, like most network administrators, feel that today’s network-management products are far too complicated, expensive, and fragmented for your environment? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a reasonably priced solution that gave you confidence in your ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, and solve problems related to bandwidth, traffic, applications and the IT infrastructure? PacketTrap Networks might have the solution for you. | Read more...
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| | More Management Tools Arrive for SMBs | | bMighty.com | | 9/23/2008 | | Traditionally, network and systems management was considered a graveyard for vendor business plans. The complexity of the problem and the difficulty in boiling down a myriad of potential problem spots into a simple to use products proved too much for many suppliers. Recently, that outlook has been changing, and one vendor has expanded the reach of its management system. | Read more...
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| | IBM Upgrades Tivoli Dashboard For Monitoring Computer Operations | | InformationWeek | | 9/23/2008 | | IBM (NYSE: IBM) on Tuesday introduced an upgrade of its "intelligent dashboard" that offers users of the company's Tivoli software a redesigned interface for managing energy consumption, virtualization, and overall computer operations.
Systems Director 6.1, which also integrates with third-party systems management tools, can reduce system administration and energy costs in a typical data center by nearly 30%, according to IBM. The software helps IT staff deploy, monitor, analyze, optimize, and update server consolidation and virtualization environments. | Read more...
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| | A New Perspective on Network Management | | itWorldCanada | | 9/17/2008 | | After just over a month of allowing free downloads of its evaluation version, a network management application startup is about to put its product on the market.
PacketTrap Networks will begin charging Sept. 22 for its new flagship, Perspective, the successor to its pt360 Tool Suite. Perspective has “all the information an IT administrator needs to troubleshoot the network and the tools to fix the problem,” said Matt Bolton, the San Francisco company’s vice-president of products. | Read more...
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| | PacketTrap Gives Enterprise "Perspective" | | ZDNet | | 9/16/2008 | | Computers are strange beings. Sometimes they stop working for no apparent reason, sometimes they work so well they don’t need to shutdown or stop processing, and some literally blow up in your face. Dealing with one computer can be troublesome enough, but how do those like enterprise managers, IT and network administrators face the task of being a lifeline to x number of computers ranging from usually 20-10,000 computers?
Last week I spoke to Matt Bolton, VP of Products at PacketTrap Networks, about a new version of their enterprise and network monitoring utility, “Perspective”. | Read more...
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| | PacketTrap Offers its Network Management Perspective | | Network World | | 9/1/2008 | | Start-up PacketTrap Networks this month will unveil its network management platform the company says offers advanced monitoring and reporting features at a competitive price.
PacketTrap's Perspective platform monitors network performance (Compare Network Monitoring and Management products), manages faults and reports on device availability data on small to midsize networks -- and offers the capabilities to take on larger environments as well. Targeted at companies with between 100 and 5,000 employees, Perspective could also be put to work in departmental implementations at large enterprise companies, PacketTrap officials say. | Read more...
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| | Network Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools - Features to Consider | | IT World | | 8/28/2008 | | PacketTrap Networks — We hear it all the time – IT departments are under pressure but budgets and IT staff aren't growing proportionately. Matters only get worse as disruptive technologies like SaaS, VoIP and virtualization begin to proliferate enterprise networks. Yet network administrators are forced to use highly fragmented, complex, and expensive management solutions that don't provide good visibility. At what point does the network administrator go postal or gets fired because the VoIP system cuts out during prime work hours and the CEO can't make his phone calls? | Read more...
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| | Application performance management tool selection: Monitoring vs. managing | | IT Knowledge Exchange | | 8/21/2008 | | Last week, while doing some background research for our application performance management tutorial, I got into a discussion with Julie Craig, a senior analyst at Enterprise Management Associates about the difference between application monitoring and managing. While some tools can do both (i.e., troubleshooting and user experience monitoring), selecting the right tool for the job often depends on who’s using the tool. | Read more...
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| | PacketTrap Puts Management into Perspective | | Techworld | | 8/14/2008 | | It's not quite Call of Duty but games designers have played their part in developing a network management product. PacketTrap's Perspective, which comes out in early September has been designed to be extremely intuitive, according to Anna Yen, PacketTrap's VP of marketing. | Read more...
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| | Put Things into Perspective | | Computerworld | | 8/13/2008 | | The one sure thing about networks is that they grow continuously. They're like weeds in a summer garden, only harder to keep under control.
Needless to say, there are bulky frameworks you can deploy to manage your network, or point products to mix and match into best-of-breed monitoring mayhem. The first approach is costly, time consuming and requires significant in-house expertise; the second way may cost less, but still requires time and specialized in-house smarts.
Is there a third way? Perhaps. | Read more...
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| | The Breaking Point | | Acakadut | | 8/12/2008 | | We hear it all the time – IT departments are under pressure but budgets and IT staff aren’t growing proportionately. Matters only get worse as disruptive technologies like SaaS, VoIP and virtualization begin to proliferate enterprise networks. Yet network administrators are forced to use highly fragmented, complex, and expensive management solutions that don’t provide good visibility. At what point does the network administrator hit the breaking point…go postal or gets fired because the VoIP system cuts out during prime work hours and the CEO can’t make his phone calls? | Read more...
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| | Turning You Into an Actuary | | Network World | | 8/8/2008 | | An actuary is defined as "an adviser on financial questions involving probabilities relating to mortality and other contingencies." So, do you know the old joke about actuaries? No, not the one about how they are accountants who found accountancy too exciting. I mean the one that defines actuaries as the guys who come down from the hills after the battle to kill the wounded to make them easier to classify. Don't laugh. If you are going to protect your organization you are destined to become actuaries. | Read more...
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| | PacketTrap Challenges CA And IBM | | Information Week | | 8/7/2008 | | PacketTrap, a network management startup with about 40,000 users, is coming out with a new platform that CEO Steve Goodman says will compete with CA (NSDQ: CA) Unicenter and IBM (NYSE: IBM) Tivoli. You read that right: little PacketTrap versus the two behemoths of systems and network management. Goodman may be crazy, but he’s not stupid. | Read more...
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| | Keep Tabs on Your Environment: pt360 Tool Suite Pro | | Microsoft TechNet | | 7/16/2008 | |
It can be very advantageous to have a single interface that lets you view and manage a variety of network monitoring and management tools. Besides saving you a lot of time (and desktop real estate), an integrated suite can make it easy to share data among different monitoring tools while allowing you to survey numerous monitors at once, giving you a more complete view of the state of your infrastructure...
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| | PacketTrap pt360 - New Version 2.0 with Cisco Features! | | techtarget | | 5/28/2008 | |
The very cool PacketTrap pt360 all-in-one network management application has a new version out - version 2.0. With this version, you get the new Cisco Configuration features (what I have personally been waiting for)! You can download a free 21 day trial version of the software from the PacketTrap Download site (and don’t forget that they have a FREE version too)! I have used this myself and it has been very helpful and has reduced the amount of time it takes to troubleshoot and configure my network...
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| | Network Management Tools That Break Price Points, Not the Bank | | bmighty | | 5/13/2008 | |
Historically, network and system management solutions have been expensive to deploy and difficult to maintain. As a result, they're been beyond the grasp of many smaller businesses, but several recent advancements are making these tools more accessible. Network management is complex and requires coordination among many different components. Consequently, building management products has taken vendors a long time and eaten up research and development resources. To recoup their investments, vendors, such as CA, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, charged high prices for these products and their associated services...
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| | Network Management Takes Interface Tips from Gaming Industry, Google | | SearchNetworking (Amy Kucharik, Michael Morisy) | | 5/13/2008 | |
Some management tool vendors are finding inspiration in unlikely places -- from Google to the gaming industry -- in their quest to simplify network management. With voice, data and video flowing over one network, IT professionals need the ability to quickly drill down to the dirty details. In response, vendors have begun offering tools with front-end interfaces more like video games or Web 2.0 sites than traditional network management tools. "The trend is to present the information to the users in a format that's actually usable," said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president of enterprise research at Yankee Group...
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| | An Integrated Tool Suite; PacketTrap Aims To Put Open-Source Tools Into... | | Processor Magazine (Sue Hildreth) | | 5/8/2008 | |
All data center managers have their own “toolbox” of monitoring, management, and debugging programs. But unless they work in a large enterprise IT department that can afford an integrated suite of management tools, such as HP’s OpenView or IBM’s Tivoli line, they must use their network tools individually, without being able to flow data between them or view results from multiple programs simultaneously. Having to deal with standalone network management tools has long been a fact of life for data center managers in small and midsized enterprises...
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| | PacketTrap Networks @ Sharkfest 2008 | | LoveMyTool (Denny Miu) | | 4/10/2008 | |
PacketTrap VP of Field Operations, Michael Blonsky, was featured on Internet blogging site Lovemytool.com and was a speaker at SharkFest, the conference dedicated to the Wireshark (previously called Ethereal) open source project. We really enjoyed ourselves at the conference and it once again proves that PacketTrap is leading Silicon Valley commercial companies in an effort to embrace open source solutions...
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| | One Giant Step by PacketTrap | | LoveMyTool (Tim O'Neill) | | 3/7/2008 | |
Review of PacketTrap Pro. It is great when we can use Open Source tools and integrate them into a new and innovative tool set and have the advantage of a unified visualization and operational GUI. I believe that is the goal of PacketTrap and that is why I am writing about them (again)...
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| | PC Magazine Review of pt360 Tool Suite | | PCMagazine (Jamie Bernstein review) | | 3/5/2008 | |
You don't have to break the bank to know what's happening on your network. PacketTrap's free pt360 Tool Suite is an impressive collection of network monitoring tools that shares the freebie space with Spiceworks 2.0. The pt360 suite, however, has more tools for actually fixing problems and is more network-centric, so it should appeal to a wider variety of IT managers. You can download the pt360 Tool Suite from PacketTrap's Web site, and if network management is in any way important to you, I recommend that you just do it...
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| | Kicking the Tires of Management Software | | Network World (Denise Dubie) | | 3/5/2008 | |
There is no shortage of free software available for download online from researchers, communities and individuals. But for every freeware application that solves a pain point fast, there is another no-cost application that offers little value, making network managers think: "You get what you pay for." The popularity of free tools such as Ethereal, MRTG and Snort and the strength of low-cost open source management applications prove network managers believe they can trust their managed nodes to free software. But unlike open source management software such as Nagios that has a community of developers behind it, freeware applications can...
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| | TechWebTV - An Interview with Steve Goodman | | TechWebTV (John Foley) | | 3/4/2008 | |
Watch InformationWeek's John Foley chat with PacketTrap CEO Steve Goodman about network management and see how PacketTrap's flagship solution, pt360, appeals to companies of a variety of sizes. From the editors, journalists and bloggers at CMP's Information Week and TechWeb, TechWebTV covers technology news and information as well as commentary...
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| | A Tough Nut to Crack; Networks are the Backbone of Many Organisations, and their Successful Management is Vital. | | WhatPC (Tony Lock) | | 2/26/2008 | |
Networking has always been complicated – its management even more so. It is no exaggeration to say networking has never been more important than it is today, since it is used in almost every facet of IT service delivery. But many organisations take their infrastructure for granted. As a result, network management is treading water. It is clear that network managers will need to perform a fine balancing act. They will need to support new applications and new methods of working, as well as enable effective security within stringent budgets...
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| | Tool: PacketTrap | | 6200networks (Joe Harris) | | 2/22/2008 | |
So here is a nice tool that you can download for free….It’s the pt360 Tool Suite from PacketTrap that integrates network monitoring and network diagnostic tools into a centralized dashboard and interface. I been using this and I must say, I’m very impressed. The interface is very smooth and flows together nicely. Perhaps most interesting to most of you will be the Cisco config tool – with 7 functionalities in a single screen/tool (the Cisco Config Tool is not included in the free version of the software). There is a free version of the tool and a licensed version of the tool. The licensed version adds more features/tools...
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| | Commercial Open Source: A Half-Baked Business Model | | Information Week (John Foley) | | 2/21/2008 | |
PacketTrap CEO Steve Goodman struck a nerve with his prediction that commercial open source software companies are doomed to fail. The fact that his controversial position wasn't universally rejected is evidence that questions remain over the commercial open source model. Goodman's Feb. 12 blog post predicting the demise of commercial open source prompted a stinging rebuttal from CNET blogger Dave Rosenberg, who refers to Goodman's argument as a "misguided marketing attempt" and worse. Rosenberg, it should be noted, is CEO of MuleSource, a software startup behind the open source Mule enterprise service bus...
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| | PacketTrap pt360 Tool Suite Review; Nice Range of Features with an Attractive Interface | | Techworld (David Cartwright) | | 2/16/2008 | |
The pt360 Tool Suite is a network toolkit that covers both of the main aspects of network management: continuous monitoring of systems and ad-hoc tasks that you undertake when the ongoing monitoring data tells you something of interest. It’s a Windows application, and after the installer has run it connects to PacketTrap’s website (you need to register your email address with them) and obtains a licence code. It then fires up into a window whose main bulk is a “dashboard” area and which has a toolbar full of icons along the top...
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| | The Demise of Commercial Open Source | | Information Week (John Foley) | | 2/14/2008 | |
Steve Goodman, co-founder and CEO of network management startup PacketTrap Networks, is predicting that commercial open source companies are doomed to fail. Goodman's not railing against open source or commercial software, per se. It's converting the former into the latter that he sees as inherently flawed. Goodman makes his argument in a blog posting published on PacketTrap's Web site. "The interest of a commercial vendor is opposite to that of an open source project," he writes. "Commercial vendors answer to roadmaps, salespeople, and shareholders." A white paper lays out the argument in more detail...
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| | How PacketTrap Developed its New Network Management Tool | | Tech Republic (Justin James) | | 2/5/2008 | |
After checking out the demo of PacketTrap’s pt360 Tool Suite, I was really curious to find out how they developed this application. Fortunately, on Jan. 17, 2008, I had the pleasure of talking with PacketTrap CTO Sal Sferlazza to hear about the project’s behind the scenes work. Sal revealed the challenges and successes of developing this slick network management tool. (Be sure to read Cisco expert David Davis’ rave review of pt360.) Development methodology The PacketTrap team used a series of rapid prototypes to allow them to get to market quicker. Sal explained that they focused on putting together a solid framework and architecture...
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| | Is pt360 the all-in-one Cisco tool we've been looking for? | | Tech Republic (David Davis) | | 1/31/2008 | |
In my opinion, it’s difficult to find a strong “all-in-one” tool that really can provide all the router management and troubleshooting help you need. Recently, I discovered the pt360 Tool Suite from PacketTrap, which offers both a free version and a professional version that’s currently in beta. This tool suite is a one-stop shop for router management and troubleshooting. Here are some of the things this tool can do for you: • Ping Scan • Graphical Ping • DNS Audit • Port Scan • MAC Scan • SNMP Scan • Trace Route • TFTP Server • Traffic Jam • WHOIS • Syslog...
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| | PacketTrap at Sharkfest - Special Discount for PacketTrap Community | | Sharkfest (event) | | 1/22/2008 | |
Join PacketTrap at Wireshark University's SHARKFEST March 31-April 2, 2008 at Foothill College in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is Wireshark's® First Annual Users and Developers Conference. Learn from the leaders in the Open Source world for network security, forensics and management. Topics include VoIP analysis, WLAN analysis and security, network forensic techniques, writing dissectors, advanced Wireshark techniques and more. Special discount to PacketTrap Users if you register by January 31st to SAVE and Get a FREE Shark T! Registration includes access to all developer and training tracks, a lab kit, breakfast, lunch and parking onsite...
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| | The Technology Week in View - Gizmos for Geeks | | Gizmos for Geeks (blog) | | 1/22/2008 | |
Recently, I have been evaluating a new product, PacketTrap, which integrates a number of network management tools into a common graphical user interface. It also contains a number of useful reporting features that can be accessed using a gadget driven dashboard. Some interesting things you can run with PacketTrap are Ping Scan, SNMP Scan, WMI Scan, TFTP Server, Syslog, Whois, Wake on Lan, DNS Audit, and several others. A few days ago I used the product to assist in identifying then fixing a problem with a network infrastructure switch - not the easiest of things to sort out in the middle of the day - especially when users just want to get on with their work...
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| | Freeing the Network with PacketTrap | | Jason Slater (blog) | | 1/15/2008 | |
PacketTrap. Let’s face it; network administration is pretty much a thankless task if your core business isn’t technology related! Few people care if everything works ok but the moment it doesn’t work then all eyes are pointed to the network administrator. It is easy to forget that in life things sometimes go wrong and when they go wrong they don’t usually go wrong at some future date that can be planned around. No sir, they often go wrong at times when they are needed most. Some people call this the “Critical Need Factor” - in times of critical need everything goes off! Anyway back to the story...
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| | What if Cisco or Microsoft Went Heterogenious in IT Management | | 42internetworks (blog) | | 1/8/2008 | |
Happy New Year! Well, now that everyone is back from the holidays let’s get things rolling again! I just had the chance to read a recent post from the crew over at PacketTrap called “The Religion of IT” and have to say a few things. Spot on! What a great thing for ALL IT Management vendors but especially those I call IT Management 2.0 vendors like PacketTrap. It really amazes me that Microsoft, Cisco and others simply don’t attempt to support even their largest competitor and then provide a smooth migration path from those products to their software/hardware. Talk about major competitive differentiator!
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| | Is Yoko Ono a Network Administrator? | | ITWeek | | 12/13/2007 | |
IT Week is always on the look out for nifty network management tools that can save you time or have a different way of doing things. So I was punted the name of a firm offering a free suite of network management tools called PacketTrap Networks. After downloading the near 7MB executable and installing it, if you want to run it you have to create a PacketTrap account – standard stuff, your name, email address, company name etc. On the site itself are testimonials from people who have used PacketTrap’s pt360 Tool Suite – but one from Yoko Ono (see piccy)? Has Yoko Ono become a network admin?
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| | Another Network Management Startup Challenges the Status Quo | | Information Week (blog) | | 12/7/2007 | |
PacketTrap becomes the latest startup to take on CA (NYSE: CA), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP) in network management with the beta release of its pt360 management dashboard. Rather than being deterred by deep-rooted competitors, brash newcomers are taking them on. PacketTrap's founders spent the past two years developing pt360, which lets network administrators choose from a mix of open source (Nagios, MRTG, Cacti) and PacketTrap-developed monitoring and diagnostic tools. The company formally launched in October, having secured funding, and went beta with its system just last week...
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| | Network Management Cockpit from PacketTrap | | LoveMyTool (blog) | | 12/7/2007 | |
New and very cool interface for open source tools has arrived! Adding more ease of management for today's technologist! PacketTrap's first product launch is the ptDashboard. This is part of their new network management solution called pt360, which sets a new standard for network management vendors and open source usage. It is a free download currently. The PacketTrap Team recognizes the value of open source tools and that today's managers need easy-to-use consolidated views and that is what PacketTrap is beginning to bring to the industry...
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| | Watchout Solarwinds, Spiceworks, AdventNet; There is a New Network Management Tool in Town! | | 42internetworks (blog) | | 11/28/2007 | |
Have 10 minutes to spare. You won’t be disappointed, especially considering the price! PacketTrap has just released a beta version of it’s “network administrator cockpit” desktop application. The best way to image this is iGoogle experience for Network/System Administrators that runs on your laptop (instead of out on the internet). In the beta release it offers a variety of widgets or the ability to view other web based products through a common web interface. Don’t get me wrong, it has some maturing to do but you can see potential written all over this! For more details on the PacketTrap...
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| | Checkout this Free Network Monitoring & Troubleshooting Tool - PacketTrap | | HappyRouter | | 11/27/2007 | |
Recently, I demoed a new free software application called "PacketTrap". I was very impressed with their offering and I would recommend it. Today, they are launching their free open public beta. I encourage you to check it out. If anyone asks, tell them that HappyRouter.com sent you :) Here is their Beta release document for your information...
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| | PacketTrap - A Simple, Powerful Tool for Administrators. | | ZDNet (blog) | | 11/19/2007 | |
It took a while to set up but, I finally enjoyed a fun conversations with the folks at PacketTrap. They’ve developed a powerful but, easy to use tool for system administrators and network administrators. Watching the demonstration really brought me back in time to my days as a network consultant for DEC’s network services group. The tool reminded me a great deal of DEC’s EtherNIM (Ethernet Network Integrity Monitor). At this moment, the beta is available for download at no cost. Just visit www.packettrap.com/download and have at it! I just love simple, small tools that go right to the heart of a specific problem...
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| | IT Security: The View from Here. | | IT Security (blog) | | 11/1/2007 | |
Interspersed with my 7 Stages of Security Man posts I'm going to be talking a bit about new technologies which I'm looking at at the moment. In fact, now that I have 'Data Centric' up and running, I'm moving all my sensible, well thought out, pure security thought over there, and keeping all the ramblings and opinionated rantings over here. I wonder which will get the more subscribers? I like little west coast tech companies, especially those who go on to become big global ones, if I have stock options. I don't (yet) have stock in PacketTrap, but who knows how well this write up will go? I had a call from a company called PacketTrap tonight...
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