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 ...

A critical vulnerability in the Cacti Web-based open source framework for monitoring network performance gives attackers a way to disclose Cacti's entire database contents — presenting a prickly risk ...

A few weeks ago, I pointed out RRDTool, a powerful open source technology for storing and graphing network monitoring data. Collecting data is all well and good, but you also have to have good ...