Check to see if a website is down.......

You receive the perverbial call that a user cannot access a website. May it's the users computer, maybe it's your internet connection, or perhaps the website is actually down.

Here is an easy to use tool to check if a site is actually down and it's simple for and end user to use.....

Is a website down for you too or just me? Try it now! Read more ...

Using your windows smartphone as a wireless access point!

WMWifiRouter - Your mobile phone just became more.....

Mobile Access Point - Internet Router - Emergency Internet Access

Let's say your working from home and your power fails, you need to send some documents but how? If you have a Windows Smartphone and WMWifiRouter software installed on your Smartphone you can turn your Smartphone into a wireless router and send the documents!

What if you are traveling and have voice and data access on your Smartphone, but need to send documents from your laptop, with WMWifiRouter installed on your Smartphone your Smartphone becomes a wireless access point, your laptop sees it and connects you to the internet!

Granted it may not be the same speed as home, the office or your local coffee shop but in a pinch it works very well....

Requirements are:

Windows Mobile 5 AKU 3.3 or newer or Windows Mobile 6
Both a wifi and a cellular data connection

An installed and working version of Internet Sharing**
15 MB of free device memory


I won't be leaving home without WMWifiRouter installed on my Smartphone.....

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Note: please note that using your Smartphone as an access point for an extended length of time will cause your Smartphone to consume power very quickly and might cause overheating Read more ...

Spiceworks, your free IT Network Management Resource

What exactly is Spiceworks?
Spiceworks is a free application that helps you with the day to day management of your networks.

Think about what you as a Network Manager do in a day.
-Answer Support calls
-Check Server Event Logs
-Maintain Hardware/Software Inventories
-Verify the latest patches or anti-virus updates
-Check availability of resources servers/services/applications)
-etc, etc, etc

All in a days work, and a reactive process.

What Spiceworks does is automate many of these tasks and frees up time for you to be proactive about other things, like how else can I use technology to enhance business processes?

SpiceWorks features:
-Automatic PC and software inventory and IT asset reporting, you can add your own IT assets as well (discovers any IP device)

-Network monitoring and troubleshooting that watches the network so you dont have to (sends email alerts if a trouble occurs)

-An easy to use IT help desk to track troubles and view trends

How is it free?
Spiceworks is the Google of Network Monitoring Tools, i.e. Spiceworks integrates advertising into the application, advertising related to Information Technology as well as Help forums so you can ask questions of Spiceworks 190,000 other users in case you run into an issue thats difficult to solve.

What Spiceworks is not (yet)....
-It is not a enterprise network management tool. Up to 500devices/applications/services works great (can handle more, maybe 1000)

-It is not a tool that automatically makes decisions to reboot an application/restart a service or spawn another process

-It is not a tool that sends alerts via SMS

-It is not a tool that creates topology maps

That said, Spiceworks is a tool that will still work very well on a small to medium sized (about 300 users) Administrative Local Area Network and can help you proactively manage your network.

After using several Monitoring Tools, KS Host Monitor, Big Brother, Solar Winds, Nagios. Spiceworks has all the features one would need to monitor their Admin LAN.


Best of all it's free....

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