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Configuring Zabbix for monitoring access points and Keenetic routers

If your company uses Zabbix for infrastructure monitoring, you can integrate Keenetic routers and access points into this platform by following our instructions. This greatly facilitates network maintenance and incident investigation. In all cases when I came across the use of Keenetic in business, none of the owners set up means of active monitoring of these devices, even if there were two or three dozen access points. There can be many reasons for this, ranging from banal laziness and lack ...
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Huawei NetEngine 8000 review: Exploring the features of SRv6

Let's talk about the advantages of IPv6-based segment routing technology, which displaces LDP tag allocation and network resource reservation protocols, RSVP on the example of a 10-gigabit router for small businesses and consider how FlexE technology helps to maintain a guaranteed bandwidth level for customers. . In recent years, more equipment for routing network traffic has been supplied under the Huawei brand than under other brands, and part of the merit of the company is that it was at ...
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How SSD A data Legend 960 [ALEG-960-1 TCS] behaves in office and server loads

The two-sided SSD layout always promises interesting speed, and when you have two DDR4 cache chips on board under the control of a 4-core controller, Silicon Motion SM2264, the result is high stability in mixed loads and excellent multithreading up to 128 threads. We have an NVME SSD Adata Legend 960 of M.2 2280 format with a volume of 1 TB, and this model is interesting because it has a two-way layout with two cache memory chips controlled by a top controller in its line, Silicon Motion ...
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SSD Crucial P5 Plus 1TB review: testing by office workloads

This drive is interesting because it supports PCI Express 4.0 bus, has 1 GB of onboard LPDDR4 memory, has a built-in APST power saving system, a new 8-channel 6-core DM02A controller.1 and 176-layer Micron 3D TLC memory. For workloads, it also matters that the drive is protected from data loss in case of a sudden power outage at the time of recording, which is achieved by data recording algorithms, and not by adding super capacitors, as in some server models. Micron is one of the few ...
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Adata Falcon plus Goodram PX500 - testing RAID from cheap NVME drives

What happens if you take two NVME disks: one faster, the other slower, and build a simple RAID from them? Will a faster SSD be able to pull off the speed of a slower one? We will check in working office loads. In general, if we look at hard drives from the point of view of performance, then everything is simple and clear, and even the slow "green" models at 5400 RPM do not differ much from the server ones at 10 and 15 thousand RPM, unless of course the manufacturer is clever with ...
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Testing of SSD Adata Gammix S50 Lite 1Tb by server and workstation loads

Almost today, even budget SSDs for gaming computers can be installed in a working computer or server, and this will not entail any disadvantages compared to Pro-models, but even on the contrary-it will give advantages in speed and reliability. The response time in the SQL pattern for this model is less than 1 ms, which is typical for very expensive storage systems, and the resource and warranty are the same as for top-end branded drives. Some time ago, SSD drives for the professional sector ...
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Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB review in server and professional workloads

This SSD with a "Pro" prefix is marketed as an inexpensive model for professional use. We'll figure out whether to install it on a workstation or server using different workload patterns. What's the difference between a home and gaming drive versus a professional drive? The fact that when developing a Pro device, the manufacturer can optimize it for certain tasks. When choosing an SSD for a server, you will be faced with the fact that you will be offered models for intensive ...
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How SSD drives larger than 10 TB will change corporate storage segment

Samsung has announced the start of deliveries of its 15.6 TB SSDs for the corporate segment. Although these drives will include smaller models, they are still larger and faster than any modern hard drive. The days of hard drives are over, but how these SSDs can change the world of corporate data, we'll look at this article 8 and 10 TB hard drives are already actively used in Enterprise systems, where high storage density is important. So far, the production technology allows such disks to be ...
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Why I gave up Mikrotik - 5 reasons that can affect everyone

Good-bye, dear friend! After 4 years of working with the Mikrotik router, I suddenly decided to finally restore order in the network infrastructure, and then it turned out that it has problems with the network, the switch slows down, updates are incompatible with previous ones, and technical support is silent. Mikrotik routers are bought when you need to achieve something more from the network infrastructure, for example, configure two dozen Firewall rules, enable DPI, divide several Internet ...
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Level One FBR-1411TX VPN router with DMZ port

The new VPN router from Level One is specially designed for small companies that need to protect the internal network as much as possible, but at the same time install a public FTP, Web or mail server. A hardware DMZ port, firewall, and support for up to 40 VPN tunnels is a great solution for small businesses. Today we will look at a 4-port VPN router for small offices from Level One. This router can become an indispensable network device for companies that need to provide secure access for ...