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SolarWinds Head Geek Tech Talks
Josh Stephens is director of technology – aka Head Geek – at SolarWinds where he plays an integral part in the development and delivery of award-winning network management products. When he's not busy lending a hand in the development aspect of the business, he can be found blogging, hosting the Geek Speak webcast series on network management best practices, discussing the latest technologies with SolarWinds partners, or providing helpful network troubleshooting and monitoring tips. Check out the Tech Talk videos below to find out what’s new in the networking world and to obtain quick tips on saving time, money, and energy maintaining your network.
Get Mighty App Monitoring Using Our Free WMI Monitor
Join the Head Geek, Josh Stephens, as he shows you how to monitor your Windows® apps in real time with our cool free tool: WMI Monitor! Plus, Josh teaches you how to tap into thwack’s online library of free application monitor templates to monitor your favorite applications in minutes!
CBQoS Monitoring on Your Network
Get a different perspective on network traffic & measure the effectiveness of your CBQoS policies.
Head Geek's Tour: Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
See how you can finally get a complete view of network traffic and shutdown bandwidth hogs with the latest version of Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. Our Head Geek gives you a tour of the powerful features for analyzing NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow®, and IPFIX data, as well as showing off brand new CBQoS monitoring capabilities!
Upgrade from TFTP Server to Orion NCM for More Advanced Configuration Management
TFTP server provides basic IOS updating and configuration management capabilities, but Head Geek, Josh Stephens, knows you might need the more advanced configuration management features that Orion NCM provides.
Upgrade from TFTP Server to Engineer's Toolset to Quickly Troubleshoot Network Issues
Do you use TFTP server's easy IOS updating and configuration management capabilities? If so, watch Head Geek, Josh Stephens, demonstrate the even more powerful troubleshooting and diagnostics features of Engineer's Toolset!
Head Geek's NCM Tour
Let Head Geek, Josh Stephens, walk you through the powerful features in Orion NCM.
Holistic NetMan OR Integrated Performance & Config Management
See why integrating fault, performance, and configuration management is critical for your network.
Crash Course on Network Mapping
Learn how to quickly create rich network maps to better visualize your network's health.
Network Discovery Made Easy
Watch our Head Geek demonstrate how to easy it is to discover and manage your network.
Green Up Your Network with EnergyWise
Learn about new technologies for reducing energy consumption on your Cisco®-powered network.
Managing 802.11 Wireless Networks
Get expert advice on managing wireless infrastructure as part of your enterprise network.
Head Geek's Tour: An Intro to Orion NPM
Get a quick tour of the powerful enterprise features in latest version of Orion NPM such as drill down maps, advanced alerting, powerful built-in reports, and Top 10 lists. See why network engineers around the world love driving Orion’s intuitive point-and-click interface to investigate network issues.
Orion IP Address Manager (IPAM) Overview
Watch our Head Geek, Josh Stephens, dive into Orion IPAM and demonstrate some of the cool new features. Josh will explain Orion IPAM's IP space summary page, run a global search on an IP address, and will organize IPs and subnets with cool drag-and-drop functionality.
Getting Started with IP Address Tracker
Ready to ditch the spreadsheet and start tracking your IP address space the easy way? Learn about our new free tool. See how to scan your subnets for error-free tracking, reserve IP addresses to avoid conflicts, and print or export reports.
How to Investigate LAN Issues
Identifying problematic LAN issues can be tough. So let the SolarWinds Head Geek, Josh Stephens, show you what steps to take and how to set up a dashboard in minutes within the Engineer’s Toolset Workspace Studio to locate issues on your LAN.
How to Troubleshoot Internet Connectivity Issues
Learn how to quickly isolate internet connectivity issues and what technologies to leverage to fix the problem. Josh Stephens, SolarWinds Head Geek, will also show you how to use Engineer’s Toolset and its powerful Workspace Studio to troubleshoot and pinpoint network issues.
Introduction to Engineer’s Toolset v10
SolarWinds Head Geek, Josh Stephens, provides a quick tour of Engineer’s Toolset v10, including the new Workspace Studio which allows you to cut troubleshooting time in half.
Creating Custom Workspaces With Workspace Studio
Want to become the fastest troubleshooter on your team? Check out the new Workspace Studio feature within Toolset v10 and see “step-by-step” how to quickly build and save your own customizable workspaces for troubleshooting network issues.
Getting Started with Application Performance Monitoring
The SolarWinds Head Geek, Josh Stephens, provides a quick demonstration on how to expand Orion Network Performance Monitor's network monitoring capabilities to include application monitoring. Learn how to quickly setup Orion Application Monitor to monitor all your windows, UNIX, and AIX server monitoring needs.
Analyzing the Performance Between Sites with Cisco IP SLA
Ever wanted to know about Cisco® IP SLA and how it can improve your network’s performance? Let SolarWinds Head Geek walk you through the basics of IP SLA and how using our free IP SLA Monitor can make it quick and easy to analyze the performance between sites and troubleshoot network slowdowns.
Using IP SLA Monitor with Orion NPM
Use IP SLA Monitor with Orion Network Performance Monitor to harness additional network management capabilities, such as monitoring the performance between multiple routers in a single web console, analyzing IP SLA trends, generating reports, and even creating custom alerts based on IP SLA statistics!
SolarWinds Orion vs. HP: A Geek's Perspective
Josh Stephens, talks straight about SolarWinds Orion compared to HP OpenView. Learn how Orion can fulfill your network management needs while reducing the costs and headaches associated with traditional enterprise solutions.
How to Configure SNMP on Windows Servers
Check out this short video where Josh Stephens, our SolarWinds Head Geek, provides step by step instructions for enabling and configuring SNMP on Windows servers and workstations.
Free Tool for Monitoring Virtualization Servers
Our SolarWinds Head Geek, Josh Stephens, is at it again - serving up helpful tips for proactively monitoring your network. The tip of the week is to use the free SolarWinds VM Monitor to monitor the cpu, memory, disk usage, and traffic of your ESX server and the associated virtual machines.
Leveraging Open-source Nagios Scripts
Our SolarWinds Head Geek, Josh Stephens, provides step by step instructions for using your existing open source Nagios scripts to monitor additional applications within Orion Application Performance Monitor.
Windows Application & System Monitoring using WMI
Our SolarWinds Head Geek, Josh Stephens, talks about the benefits of leveraging WMI and how Orion APM v2leverages WMI to let you customize, tweak, and monitor your business-critical apps and servers.
Quick Tips for Improved Application Monitoring
Josh Stephens, our SolarWinds Head Geek, takes a few minutes to demonstrate how easy application monitoring can be with the new Orion Application Performance Monitor Application Template Builder. In just a few minutes, you can setup new mission-critical applications to monitor.
How to Configure NetFlow
Our SolarWinds Head Geek, Josh Stephens, provides helpful tips for enabling NetFlow on Cisco routers.
Switch Port Mapping
Our SolarWinds Head Geek provides helpful tips for quickly mapping users to their connected switch ports.
Monitor any SNMP Statistic with Orion NPM
Josh Stephens, our Head Geek, demonstrates how to collect any SNMP statistic from any network device or server using the new Orion Network Performance Universal Device Poller.
Josh Stephens and Chris Pirillo on SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset
The Geeks Met: Lockergnome's Chris Pirillo & SolarWinds' Josh Stephens Dish on Networking Issues and the SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset
Josh Stephens and Chris Pirillo on SolarWinds Free Exchange Monitor
SolarWinds Head Geek, Josh Stephens, forged alliances again with Lockergnome’s Chief Geek, Chris Pirillo. See what happens when these two brains put their heads together, plus hear the low down on the latest and greatest free tool from SolarWinds: Exchange Monitor.
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