Systems Monitoring For Dummies

CORK, Ireland – February 10, 2016 – SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable hybrid IT infrastructure management software, today announced its upcoming participation at Cisco Live!® Berlin, February 15-19 in Berlin, Germany.

At the event, the company will unveil its “Network Monitoring For Dummies®,” SolarWinds Special Edition book and exhibit its latest network performance monitoring and management capabilities.

The book provides an introduction to IT monitoring and offers best practices surrounding monitoring-as-a-discipline.

It is authored by SolarWinds® Head Geek™ Leon Adato, who has over 25 years network management experience and is a Cisco® Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Microsoft® Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) and SolarWinds Certified Professional®, as well as SolarWinds networking product experts.

“The starting point of any effective monitoring program is learning the fundamentals; you have to know what monitoring is before you can implement it in your environment,” said Leon Adato, SolarWinds Head Geek.

“In ‘Network Monitoring For Dummies,’ we lay the foundation for establishing monitoring by providing an overview of theories, techniques and execution. This book is designed to introduce IT pros to network monitoring-as-a-discipline, and we look forward to its unveiling at Cisco Live! and to the wider IT community.”

“Network Monitoring For Dummies,” SolarWinds Special Edition offers a general overview of:  

The need for monitoring

Monitoring framework

The best practices of network monitoring

How to monitor the IT stack

What to look for in monitoring tools