In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don’t know what your ...

In this series of articles, I am looking at how to monitor my home/home lab LAN. In my first article, I probed my network to see what devices were on it and where they were located. In my next article ...

Zabbix is a powerful and flexible open-source monitoring software solution designed to monitor IT infrastructure's performance, health, and availability, including servers, networks, applications, and ...

It started as a smart home tool; now I want it to do everything.

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...