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ALSO CALLED: Networkmonitor, Network Traffic Monitoring, Network Behavior Monitoring, Monitoring Network, and Network Performance Monitoring DEFINITION: Port mirroring, also known as a roving analysis port, is a method of monitoring network traffic that forwards a copy of each incoming and outgoing packet from one port of a network switch to another port where the packet can be studied. A network administrator uses port mirroring as a diagnostic tool or debugging feature, especially when fending off an attack. It enables the administrator to keep … Definition continues below.
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Corporate networks: Business 2.0 and beyond sponsored by SonicWALL WHITE PAPER: The performance and security needs of corporate networks have evolved greatly in the last five years. This brochure provides a management overview of what's changed and why. But more importantly, it shows why flexibility, visibility, agility and affordability are now the key factors in network decision-making. Read on to learn more. Posted: 29 Oct 2009 \| Published: 29 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Security \| Network Security Appliances \| Security \| Web 2.0

Solutions For Server Rooms sponsored by APC WHITE PAPER: The modular, easy-to-install solutions from APC by Schneider Electric allow you to implement an appropriate IT environment that meets your current and future needs, without breaking the bank in the process. Posted: 23 Oct 2009 \| Published: 23 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| High Availability \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| Server Management \| Server Software

Security and Environmental Monitoring Solutions sponsored by APC WHITE PAPER: NetBotz protection brings a crucial layer of physical security to any IT environment—big or small—by constantly monitoring and protecting your IT assets from environmental threats and human error. Posted: 23 Oct 2009 \| Published: 23 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Physical Security \| Data Centers \| Downtime \| High Availability \| Network Monitoring \| Network Security \| Network Security Appliances \| Security Infrastructure \| Security Threats

Performance First: Performance-based Network Management Keeps Organizations Functioning at Optimum Levels sponsored by NetQoS, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper, you will learn about the current shift in focus from network availability to application performance and how a new management model, what NetQoS calls Performance First™, will empower you to advance to the next level in managing your network for application performance. Posted: 22 Oct 2009 \| Published: 22 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Enterprise Architectures \| Network Architectures \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management Software \| Network Monitoring \| Network Traffic Analysis \| QOS

Reference Guide: Fundamental Protocols of Network Management sponsored by SolarWinds, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The goal of this five-part Reference Guide is to assist you with understanding and successfully employing the top 5 network management protocols. Building upon the very simplest in Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), this guide explores the latest network management solutions. Posted: 20 Oct 2009 \| Published: 20 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Network Best Practices \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Management Protocols \| Network Management Software \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Protocols \| Network Traffic Management

PlateSpin® Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning sponsored by Novell Inc. WHITE PAPER: PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center. Posted: 01 Oct 2009 \| Published: 01 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Network Capacity \| Network Monitoring \| Reporting Software \| ROI \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management \| Virtual Machine

Remove Security Blind Spots with a Robust Security Information and Event Management Platform sponsored by ArcSight, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the ongoing security threats enterprises encounter, from data breaches to account fraud to malware. It then discusses ArcSight security monitoring solutions and explains how visibility greatly reduces the risks posed by these threats. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Cybersecurity \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Security \| Hackers \| Malware \| Network Monitoring \| Network Security \| Security Event Management \| Security Management \| Security Threats

5 Secrets to SQL Server Availability sponsored by Marathon Technologies WHITE PAPER: The following five secrets to affordable SQL availability will help you to implement a SQL environment with little or no downtime, zero data loss, and no added IT complexity. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 28 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Clustering \| Data Centers \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Downtime \| IT Management \| Network Monitoring \| Server Management \| SQL \| SQL Server

Configuring High Availability for Windows Server 2008 Environments sponsored by Marathon Technologies WHITE PAPER: All organizations are becoming increasingly reliant upon their computer systems. The availability of those systems can be the difference between the organization succeeding and failing. This series will examine how we can configure our Windows Server 2008 environments to provide the level of availability our organizations need. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 28 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Clustering \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Downtime \| High Availability \| Load Balancing \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| SLA \| Systems Management \| Windows Server Software

5 Steps to Reducing Downtime: Best Practices for Windows Server Application High Availability sponsored by Marathon Technologies WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses five steps for protecting Windows Server applications from downtime, offering established best practices to reduce potential single points of failure and ensure rapid recovery or continued operations in the event of failure. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 28 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Downtime \| High Availability \| IT Infrastructure \| Network Monitoring \| Power Blackouts \| Productivity \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Windows Server Software

Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise Takes the Tension Out of Job Schedule Audits sponsored by Help/Systems WHITE PAPER: Learn how Robot/SCHEDULE, the job scheduling and batch management software for IBM AS/400, has helped companies pass their internal and external audits for over 25 years. You can monitor who changed what job, produce reports that prove you are monitoring the schedule, and demonstrate the basic security that prevents unauthorized editing of jobs. Posted: 24 Sep 2009 \| Published: 24 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Job Scheduling Software \| Log Management \| Network Monitoring \| Reporting Software \| Server Management \| SLA \| System i \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management

Discover How Easy it is to Troubleshoot Your Enterprise from One Central Scheduling Console sponsored by Help/Systems WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to create event-driven schedules based on system events across your enterprise with Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise. Posted: 24 Sep 2009 \| Published: 24 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Debugging \| Job Scheduling Software \| Log Management \| Network Monitoring \| Reporting Software \| SLA \| System i \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management \| Troubleshooting

Drive Your Enterprise with Event-Driven Scheduling sponsored by Help/Systems WHITE PAPER: Use Event Monitors to create an event-driven schedule for your enterprise using system events on your Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers to launch reactive jobs through Robot/SCHEDULE. Posted: 17 Sep 2009 \| Published: 17 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Job Scheduling Software \| Linux \| Log Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Monitoring Software \| Reporting Software \| Server Management \| Service Level Management \| System i \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management \| Workload Automation

'Lights Out' IT Management -- Automate Problem Identification & Resolution sponsored by Dorado Software WHITE PAPER: Lights-Out IT Management refers to the automation of both problem identification and problem resolution. The successful implementation of Lights-Out IT Management is built upon an integrated system that provides three key management functions: find, configure, and monitor. Read on to learn more. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Configuration Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Network Management \| Network Management Software \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Performance Management Software \| Networking

Monitoring Enterprise-Wide Business Risk sponsored by ArcSight, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper presents ArcSight EnterpriseView, a solution designed to help customers understand who is on the network, what data they are seeing, and which actions they are taking with that data. While doing so, EnterpriseView provides the context to understand whether the business faces additional risk of data loss, compliance breach, or fraud. Posted: 14 Sep 2009 \| Published: 14 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Fraud Protection \| Network Monitoring \| Network Security \| Security Event Management \| Security Management \| Security Threats \| Software as a Service

Buyer’s Guide to SIMS and Log Management sponsored by LogRhythm, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Security information management systems are effective platforms for the collection, analysis and storage of events from a broad range of systems and devoces. This Buyer’s guide will outline the six key criteria that you should look for to get the most relevant data from SIMS. Posted: 09 Sep 2009 \| Published: 09 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Collection \| Indexing (Information Management) \| Information Management \| Log Management \| Network Monitoring \| Reporting Software \| Security Event Management \| Society for Information Management

Business Solutions: The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard sponsored by CDW Corporation WHITE PAPER: This brief document provides a listing of the six primary objectives for companies to meet in order to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Access Control \| Data Security \| Information Security \| Network Monitoring \| Network Security \| Payment Card Industry \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance \| Vulnerability Management

VIPRE Takes A Bite Out Of Bloatware sponsored by Sunbelt Software WHITE PAPER: Sunbelt Software's new VIPRE Enterprise package is ideally suited to combating legacy and new blended malware threats from traditional viruses to the newest spam and Trojans. Posted: 30 Jul 2009 \| Published: 30 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Anti-Spyware Software \| Endpoint Security \| Malware \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Security \| Security Software \| Security Threats \| Systems Management

Ethernet 10/100/1000 Copper Taps, Passive or Active? sponsored by Gigamon WHITE PAPER: This article presents an overview of the various Ethernet 10/100/1000 physical layer technologies for the copper medium. It discusses the pros and cons of active versus passive tapping and why active tapping is preferred for Gigabit Ethernet running over the copper medium. The switch-over behavior of active relay-based tapping is also presented. Posted: 01 Jul 2009 \| Published: 01 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Ethernet Networks \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Processing \| Network Traffic Analysis

Is Your Network Ready for VoIP? sponsored by Blue Coat WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP's viability, regardless of which vendor's IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise. Posted: 20 Apr 2009 \| Published: 20 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Network Convergence \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Traffic Management \| Voice Quality \| VoIP \| WAN \| WAN Hardware

Monitor and Control Recreational Traffic sponsored by Blue Coat WHITE PAPER: File sharing and social network activity can dramatically hinder your network performance. This white paper details how Blue Coat helps you manage recreational applications today. Posted: 20 Apr 2009 \| Published: 20 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Performance Management Software \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Networking Hardware \| Performance Testing

Visibility and Control with Proxy Appliances sponsored by Blue Coat WHITE PAPER: This paper explores a high-performance solution that can provide total visibility and control of all network users during Web-based communications with zero impact on firewall operations and network bandwidth. Posted: 20 Apr 2009 \| Published: 20 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Firewall Management \| High Availability \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Security \| Proxy Server Hardware \| Proxy Server Software \| Web Application Security \| Web Content Management

Voice, Video and Data Convergence: A best-practice approach for transitioning your network infrastructure sponsored by Blue Coat WHITE PAPER: Enterprises everywhere want to quickly prepare their IT infrastructure to take full advantage of convergence. Is your company one of them? If so, you need a strategy that helps you quickly achieve benefits, with minimal investment and impact to your business processes. This white paper is a great place to start. Posted: 20 Apr 2009 \| Published: 20 Apr 2009 TOPICS: IP Telephony \| Network Convergence \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Operating Systems \| Network Performance \| Network Performance Management Software \| Network Security \| Video Services \| WAN

How to Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks and Ensure Great Performance in Your VMware ESX Environment sponsored by VKernel WHITE PAPER: In virtualized data centers, the fact that all applications and users can impact each other combined with a lack of resource monitoring can cause poor performance and even system downtime. This white paper provides a formula to avoid these problems. Posted: 26 Feb 2008 \| Published: 26 Feb 2008 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Downtime \| Network Appliances \| Network Monitoring \| Server Virtualization \| VMware

Practical Strategies to Accelerate Business Applications across the WAN sponsored by Blue Coat WHITE PAPER: As more IT professionals are turning to application & server consolidation, costs and the importance of performance is growing. This white paper takes a look at acceleration technologies - the challenges, benefits, and techniques of this alternative. Posted: 01 May 2006 \| Published: 01 May 2006 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Security \| Network Traffic Analysis \| WAN

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NETWORK MONITORING DEFINITION (continued): … close track of switch performance and alter it if necessary. Port mirroring can be managed locally or remotely.An administrator configures port mirroring by assigning a port from which to copy all packets and another port where those packets will be sent. A packet bound for or heading away from the first port will be forwarded onto the second port as well. The administrator places a protocol analyzer on the port receiving the mirrored data to monitor each segment separately. The analyzer captures and evaluates the data without affecting the client on the original port. The monitor port may …
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