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Geek Speak from Josh Stephens, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Welcome to the blog. This is a place where we're going to post thoughts of technical topics in the areas of network management, network engineering, systems management, security, and etc. The blog will evolve over time, based upon your feedback. Let us know your thoughts and if there are specific topics that you'd like to see discussed in the future please send your ideas to headgeek@solarwinds.com.

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Come see SolarWinds at Cisco Live! next week in San Francisco!!!

Booth #931 Free swag (T-shirts, USB keys, geek pins) Free geek drawings (yeah, like my avatar but of you) Free Mountain Dew (hey, we all get thirsty) Technology presentations every half hour by yours truly (hence why I get so thirsty) Follow the event thru Twitter if you can't attend in person (trust me, it'll be worth it) Enough said? Josh - Follow me on Twitter

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Published: Thu, Jun 25 2009 4:45 PM | Comments: 0

Filed under: Cisco, solarwinds, cisco live!
Raising the visibility of IT and Network Operations

One of the things that I tend to talk alot about is how to raise the visibility of the IT and network engineering groups within your organization. If you get this right, not only will your job get easier but you'll find that getting budget approved for projects, staffing, and even pay raises takes a lot less effort. Calvin Sun over at Tech Republic makes some great points in his recent blog post on this same subject and with the financial crisis that is occurring right now there couldn't...

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Published: Tue, Jun 23 2009 10:55 AM | Comments: 0

Filed under: Cisco, cisco energywise, energywise, IT, network operations, virtualization
Understanding NetFlow and its role in traffic analysis and as a transport protocol

Over the last few days I've been writing and talking a lot about NetFlow. This is a smokin' hot topic for network engineers nowadays and so we've created some new videos and webcasts to help explain the technology and how you can leverage it. One of the subjects that kept coming up is how to get NetFlow data from your Cisco ASAs. I had to do some research to verify my understanding of how this worked but now that I'm done I thought I should share it here. When most of us think about...

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Published: Wed, Jun 17 2009 5:21 PM | Comments: 0

Filed under: Orion, Cisco, NetFlow, cisco IOS, solarwinds, traffic analysis, cisco asa, asa
New SolarWinds Webcast on Thursday - Exposing the Hidden Secrets of Cisco IOS

This Thursday we're hosting a new webcast on some of hidden secrets of Cisco IOS. Specfiically, we're going to dive into Cisco IP SLA, NetFlow, and EnergyWise. I'm pretty excited as my buddy Jimmy Ray Purser (co-host of Cisco TechWise TV , Network World Blogger , and Security Expert/hacker extraordinaire) is going to be co-hosting and when you get two redneck supergeeks like us together it's bound to be interesting... You can sign-up and read the full description of the webcast here...

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Published: Tue, Jun 16 2009 10:24 PM | Comments: 0

Filed under: Cisco, NetFlow, IP SLA, solarwinds, techwisetv, Solarwinds Orion, cisco energywise, energywise, network world, techwise tv
Killer dude, like, totally awesome...

In case you haven’t seen it yet, the SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset version 10.1 is now available and includes some pretty cool new stuff. One of the coolest pieces of technology that 10.1 added is the new and improved traffic generator, WAN Killer . I recently had a chance to chat with the Toolset engineering team about this new application and so I thought I’d post our discussion here. Josh – So Steve, I know that we’ve been chatting about a new and improved traffic...

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Published: Thu, Jun 11 2009 2:52 PM | Comments: 0

Filed under: solarwinds, QoS, traffic analysis, engineer's toolset, DSCP, ECN, WAN killer, traffic generator, CBQoS, WAN analysis
New versions of SolarWinds Orion NPM and NCM available now...

The dev guys here have been working hard (as usual) and I'm pleased to announce that we now have new versions of Orion NPM (Network Performance Monitor) and NCM (Network Configuration Manager) available for download. For existing customers with active software maintenance these are free upgrades. For folks that haven't bought Orion yet, you can download an evaluation version from SolarWinds.Com to try out for 30 days. Orion NPM version 9.5 offers several cool enhancements. My Top 3 would...

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Published: Tue, May 26 2009 10:15 PM | Comments: 0

Filed under: Orion, Cisco, orion NPM, Orion NCM, solarwinds, Solarwinds Orion, cisco energywise, energywise
Advanced IP Address Management

This week I traveled to Washington DC to speak on the subject of Advanced IP Address Management. For those of you that attended - Thank you!!! It was a great seminar with lots of attendee participation and we shared some great stories and best practices. One attendee shared with me that she is about to start a project to readdress her entire large enterprise and we had a blast chatting about "gotchas" to avoid and best practices to adhere to. For those of you that couldn't attend, we've...

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Published: Fri, May 15 2009 10:14 AM | Comments: 2

Filed under: IP Address Management, Orion, solarwinds
SolarWinds Orion wins Codie Award

Sometimes you have to swagger a little and I reckon this is one of those times. Orion has just won a Codie Award!!! Go here to see the full list of winners. Flame on... Josh Follow me on Twitter

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Published: Wed, May 13 2009 11:23 AM | Comments: 0

Filed under: Orion, solarwinds, codie, awards
Cast your vote...

Today some of the SolarWinds products have been nominated for the "Best Products" awards from the Network Products Guide . I think this is pretty awesome as I get to spend a lot of time with our product management, engineering, and tech support teams and I know that they work hard to deliver great products to the people they love most - our customers. The winners will be decided by you - actual users of the applications out in the industry that care enough to go to the website and cast...

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Published: Wed, May 06 2009 8:38 PM | Comments: 0
Just released - IP Address Management from SolarWinds

Every once and a while I get to do something really, really cool. No, it's not the same kind of cool as when my buddy Chris dated the co-captains of the OSU cheerleading squad (twins no less) while he was in college there or yesterday when my pal Mark and his 2 hunting partners ended up with 4 gobblers in a single morning. Come to think of it, it's not the same kind of cool as when my friend Kramer got that job modeling underwear for Calvin Klein or when my friend Kenny was recruited as one...

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Published: Thu, Apr 30 2009 4:29 PM | Comments: 0

Filed under: Orion, solarwinds, IPAM, OSU, cheerleaders, Joe Dirt, mullett, Oklahoma State Universidy, orion IP address manager

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Come see SolarWinds at Cisco Live! next week in San Francisco!!!

Raising the visibility of IT and Network Operations

Understanding NetFlow and its role in traffic analysis and as a transport protocol

New SolarWinds Webcast on Thursday - Exposing the Hidden Secrets of Cisco IOS

Killer dude, like, totally awesome...

New versions of SolarWinds Orion NPM and NCM available now...

Advanced IP Address Management

SolarWinds Orion wins Codie Award

Cast your vote...

Just released - IP Address Management from SolarWinds

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