Gartner have just released their 2017 Market Guide for Network Automation with Opmantek featured for the second year in a row. The annual market review assesses sentiment and trends as well as key developments in the platforms and tools that automate the maintenance of virtual and physical network device configurations, providing an opportunity to lower […]
The demand for cloud security services in today’s dynamic cyber security landscape, is growing at a rapid pace across the globe. But unlocking the huge new revenue opportunity in the enterprise market segment for a telco or data centre operator is a challenging task. Having worked for many years in Telstra Corporation – the #1 […]
Who has Administrator level access on your computers? Would you know if someone was added to the Local Administrators (or root / sudo) group on a computer? You can use Open-AudIT to quickly determine if the required users have administrator access to your devices and conversely, easily determine users who have local administrator access when […]
Open-AudIT will discover any device on your network. Using the correct credentials will allow Open-AudIT to retrieve a great deal of information about any given device via SNMP, SSH or WMI. Windows, Linux, OSX, AIX and VMware have specific audit scripts that can be run against the target device and will do so automatically as […]
Do you know how many websites are running in your organisation? You might be surprised to see the number, not only of actual web servers – but also the number of sites those web servers are serving. Open-AudIT has a built-in query to easily show you the websites (even those not running) in your organisation. […]
Your AntiVirus console should tell you which PCs have their AntiVirus software installed. But will it tell you which PCs don’t have their AntiVirus software installed? What about your server’s that live in a DMZ or another disconnected network? What about AntiVirus software from another vendor? Because Open-AudIT captures the programs installed on a PC, […]
Over the last decade or so, I have worked with many organisations and while all of them are different, they have many things in common. One thing organisations have in common is the need for more flexibility in the authentication system to give them the ability to provide access to resources being managed by the […]
I have the pleasure of working with dozens of engineers every month from companies all over North America. No matter the type of business they work for I have found they all have one thing in common – they’re all trying to maintain larger and more complex networks with a smaller team of staff. Network […]
Managing a large complex environment with ever changing operational states is challenging. Several of our engineers who previously managed shifts in large 24hr Network Operation Centres described how they used Automated Live Base Lining when starting a shift and during shift handovers to immediately understand a network’s current health and recent history. NMIS Live Base […]
Our new major feature for 1.10 is the beginning of our Baselines feature. This is not finished as yet (in 1.10), but we wanted it out there for feedback. Baselines in Open-AudIT Enterprise allow you to take the details of one machine (say it’s software list) and use that as a basis for comparison against […]