This story begins with SevOne, our in-house network performance monitoring system. We have a policy configured in SevOne to alert us when a router serial interface is at or above 95%, meaning the Sprint MPLS WAN link for that location is nearly if not fully consumed. Obviously this is a bad thing as it severely...
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This article is written specifically for the Netscaler VPX virtual appliance, so your mileage may vary. Increasingly we were getting complaints from users of incompatibility with Internet Explorer 10 and 11 when trying to login to our company’s remote access portal, which is fronted by an Access Gateway virtual server on our Netscaler VPX appliance....
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If you’re like me, and are familiar with setting up virtual machines (VMs) on VMware 4 & 5 ESXi servers using Microsoft Windows, then you have probably gotten used to the simplicity and user-friendliness of installing the VMware tools in the operating system. You just open the VM’s console window, log on to the desktop...
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It’s important for all workstations and servers to agree what time it is. There’s a long list of reasons for this, including log file synchronization, and avoiding the inevitable end-user complaints when their computer’s time does not match their phone’s time. Unfortunately, when I recently set up a LAN with a number of Windows Server...
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