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[yourcravencall]

April 25th - Cisco Ducharme's first birthday / anniversary of creation !

[this-house-is-bitchin]

If that scares you, I can’t imagine how you’re going to feel when you open up these doors and let me out.

Hello, my name is Hartley Rathaway. I have to say, I’m quite surprised anyone’s here. Well, since you are, and since you asked, here’s my irritating life story so far.

I grew up rich, influential, and spoiled. My parents, Osgood and Rachel Rathaway, are terrible people, so set in their ways they’d kick their own son out for being gay. Which they did. Not huge fans of boykissers, I have to say. Anyway, I hate them, and all they stand for. They run Rathaway Industries, which I tried to take down a while ago, but the Flash stopped me.

After I was kicked into the streets like trash, my life, my chance at success, and my reputation as a scientist shoved into the dirt, I clawed my way back up. I met Dr. Harrison Wells, or who I believed him to be. At the time, my personal idol. He became my mentor, my teacher. I was his favorite, and I was used to being teacher’s favorites. I was a prodigy. I am a genius.

I built my life back up. Scrounged what money I had to rent in a shitty apartment complex, just until I climbed the ranks. Which I did. I upgraded and bought myself a studio, a space big enough for me to live and work. Work was my life, not just a passion or my job. I had no time to be nice to anyone.

Together, we made the particle accelerator. I was so proud of my work. Really. That is…until I discovered that Dr. Wells was going to turn it on, even thought it wasn’t ready yet. I told him it was dangerous, I tried to warn him. But that bastard fired me. Took my rebuilt life that I had just gained from me. He silenced me.

After the accelerator exploded, I gained clarity for the first time in a long time. I became a metahuman, like so many others in Central City. I could now sream at pitches only dogs could hear, and manipulate sound waves to my will. And I’ll admit, I abused this power for a while. Used it to try and get revenge on those I believed had wronged me, that owed me pain and suffering. Wells, Flash…Cisco.

But I also found love. I fell for a tall handsome man, and it was wonderful. We sacrificed our lives for each other, and we both got hurt, but we were there for each other. Roderick.

Unfortunately, we ended up going our separate ways. After all the trauma we’d both experienced, and the years we lost together after the accident, the differences became too great. But I’ll always be forever grateful to Team Flash for saving his life. Now I work with them, I fight alongside them. As Pied Piper. Caitlin says I’m healing, but what does she know, she’s a sap. Although, I might be…finding love again.

Through thick and thin, I’d choose them again. After everything I’ve been through, I couldn’t ask for better friends, who treat me like a real person, and not a freak. Either way, I, Hartley Rathaway, of sound mind and body, am for sure the smartest one on the team.

Name: Hartley Rathaway

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He/Him

Significant Other: Cisco Ramon - @this-house-is-bitchin

Sexuality: Gay

Family: Osgood Rathaway, Rachel Rathaway

Friends: Caitlin Snow, Frost, Barry Allen, Allegra Garcia, Chester P. Runk, Joe West, Wally West, Cecile Horton, Iris West-Allen, Ralph Dibny, Julian Albert, Nora West-Allen, Bart West-Allen

Occupation: Mechanical Engineer/Scientist/Hero at STAR Labs/Owner of the Krakatoa Club

Alias: Pied Piper

Abilities: Sonic Screech, Soundwave Manipulation

Favorite drink at CC Jitters: Vibeaccino

Status: Genius, Prodigy, Superhero

Insecurities: Failing to save his loved ones, failing to be the smartest in the room

Species: Metahuman

Looks: Tamed brown hair, brown eyes, black glasses, white, slightly short

Favorite song for karaoke: Doesn’t like to sing

Loves/Likes: Cisco, tech, staying in, cooking, learning, traveling

Hates: Being lied to, being gaslit, being locked up, his parents, singing

Personality: Egotistical, sarcastic, prideful, uncooperative, snappy, thoughtful, flirty, intelligent, creative

[sunshineshifts]

scripting that im good at lying simply so I can pretend to not know very popular franchises and fuck with everyone around me

someone: so I was watching star wars-

me: is that that new movie I've been hearing about

someone: star wars? is star wars new?

me: yeah I've been hearing abt it lately what is it

someone: wh. what is star wars? you don't know what star wars is?

me: should i

[shriekinghavoc]

[icedteaandoldlace]

It started the night of the electrical storm. No one knows exactly where the storm came from or why it ended as abruptly as it started; all Kamilla knows is that one minute, everything was normal, and the next, there were streaks of lightning in all colors lighting up the sky and wreaking havoc all over the city.

And okay, maybe it was stupid to go outside in the middle of it—maybe it was really, really stupid because this is Central City, and the aftereffects of natural and unnatural disasters here are a million times weirder than anywhere else in the world. But as dangerous as this freak lightning storm looked to be, it was also really cool, and even kind of beautiful, in its own way. And Kamilla didn’t want to be a bartender forever, and no one’s ever impressed the editor of National Geographic with their portfolio of senior portraits on railroad tracks, so of course she had to go out to try to get a picture of it and grow her collection of unique and incredible shots. She’s an artist, after all; this is what she does. Photography is practically fused in her DNA.

Of course, it’s not the only thing fused in her DNA—not after that night, anyway. Not after a blue bolt hit the sidewalk just yards away from her, and a dark wave of whatever-it-was rushed over her, knocking her off balance and making her camera smoke and spark, before everything around her went silent.

For a moment, she thought she’d gone deaf. She could see the lightning still flashing, and the people on the streets running for cover, but she couldn’t hear the thunder, the crackling, the footsteps, or the screams anymore. There was no sound anywhere.

The sound of her own breath catching stopped the panic before it could really take hold, but the relief that she felt afterward was quickly replaced with confusion. Her hearing was normal within a very short radius, but everywhere else, it was like she was watching a 3D movie on mute. What’s more, she could sense an odd sort of tingling all around her, like she was surrounded by energy that was in constant motion—rushing, swirling, vibrating—and there was a space where that energy came to a standstill.

A little time spent focusing on that space, and she was able to tell—without really knowing how she could tell—that that space was the same as the space where her hearing range stopped. From there, it didn’t take her long to find that the longer she focused on the edge of her range, the wider that range grew.

“Oh, fuck.”

Coming outside was definitely a stupid idea.

-

It took some time to figure out how this new ability worked, but now she pretty much has the hang of it. Whatever this omnipresent energy is, it seems kind of like how she imagined the Force, as Obi Wan first explained it to Luke. She can’t control it fully; she can only stop it, either from reaching a certain point, or from moving altogether. She knows that some of the vibrations she feels are sound waves, and she can stop the waves before they reach her ears. This comes in handy at work, whenever a sleazy customer tries to hit on her, a coworker tries to dump their responsibilities on her, or the owner of the place decides to showcase another terrible band. Her coworkers start to joke that she has selective hearing. They have no idea how right they actually are.

Other types of vibrations are trickier to understand. She knows there’s something moving through the atmosphere at all times, and she knows that she can stop it in its tracks, but she doesn’t know where it came from or what its purpose is. She knows she can hold it back so it just vibrates in one place, and when she does that at the farmers market, the fruit flies bothering everyone else can’t pass through the vibration field to buzz her.

She understands now why people say that some people give off bad vibes. This should make reading people’s emotions and intentions easier, but instead it makes some things more confusing. She doesn’t know why she feels a sense of foreboding when she walks into a cute little pawn shop, but it’s strong enough to make her leave without buying anything and never go there again. She doesn’t know why she feels perfectly safe walking past the scary looking guy standing outside her apartment late one night, or why the fact that he lingers and watches her go inside doesn’t give her the creeps. She doesn’t know why the man in the black cap she sees on the subway gives her such a weird feeling—not bad, just different—or why her cell reception suddenly returns the exact moment that feeling leaves. And the day she first sees Cisco Ramon, she feels something unlike anything she’s ever felt before.

Technically it happens before she sees him; she can feel it the moment he walks into the bar, something like a rip current among the usual waves, but it takes her a little while to figure out that it’s him that it’s coming from. It’s only part of the reason why she feels drawn to him; the lustrous, wavy hair, the warmth in his dark eyes, and the fact that he acknowledges her more than anyone else at the bar does (and not in a creepy or contemptuous way), all play a pretty significant part as well.

But then he picks up a piece of the glass that Truck smashed against the bar, and…Kamilla doesn’t know what hits her. Something changes—not for long, but for a few seconds, the vibrations in the bar start moving in all different directions, changing frequencies, and…and she really wishes she understood the science of how this energy works, because she’s no expert, but she’s pretty sure it shouldn’t be possible for it to move that way. She can’t see what it’s doing, but she can sense it, and it is chaotic.

In an instant, everything goes back to normal, and almost immediately after, Cisco throws the glass shard away from him. For one wild second, Kamilla wonders if he felt the energy shift, too—if maybe him holding that piece of glass caused a weird reaction in the universe. But that’s silly—even for Central City, something as simple as a man picking up a piece of glass shouldn’t butterfly-effect a potential cataclysm.

She lets it go, writing it off as a coincidence. But she keeps her eye on him, anyway. He doesn’t appear to be having a good time, and if the hellhole that is Liquid Kitty is just not his kind of scene, he might not ever come back—which would be a shame, because he is such a hottie.

She shoots her shot when the opportunity presents itself, and she finds that he’s sweet and smart and adorably goofy, and he ends up leaving the bar in a better mood. He also leaves with her number.

They begin texting, and Kamilla becomes so taken with Cisco that she almost forgets all about the weird thing that happened with the vibes at the bar. And even though he’s an hour late for their first date and positively radiating with the irregular energy she only feels around him, it doesn’t take long before she starts to feel like she’s falling in love.

One night, she runs into him at Jitters. He’s ordering a lot of espressos for how late it is, and she asks him what’s up.

His answer is vague, just a quick explanation that his team is pulling an all-nighter and he’s providing the fuel, but something is off. It seems a little odd that he’d need to pull an all-nighter now, when the big project he keeps alluding to is already finished. He’s also visibly anxious about something, and not in a rushing-to-meet-a-deadline kind of way.

After a little gentle nudging, he finally comes out with it: someone broke into the lab where he works. The place has been thoroughly trashed, a lot of his equipment destroyed.

It’s clear he doesn’t really want to talk about it with her; he reassures her that everyone is okay and the break-in is being investigated, but he says very little other than that. He just wants to take his coffees and get back to work fixing things up.

Kamilla understands that she needs to just let him have his space. She understands that he needs to deal with this in the way that is best for him, which is apparently to dive right into work with just his team, and to do more than say. She understands that maybe he is capable of talking about it right now, just not with her, because maybe they’re not close enough for that kind of conversation yet. She understands that catching the burglar is a job for the police, and that there really isn’t any meaningful help she can offer him right now. Still, she wants to do something. Telling her as much as he has seems to have made him process the situation a bit more, and now he’s shaking, looking antsier as he waits for the barista to return with his order. She can’t leave him to walk back to his lab alone when he’s like this.

She decides to try something new. Maybe she can’t fix the problem for him and maybe she can’t make his anxiety go away, but if she can get his body to calm down, maybe it’ll be easier for his mind to follow suit. She takes hold of his forearm, causing him to look her in the eyes. She smiles, then she stands on her toes and gently kisses his cheek—distracting him, just in case he can feel it when she steadies the turbulence inside him, causing his muscles to relax.

When she pulls away, he looks at her differently than he ever has before, and when she tells him that she’s there for him if he needs her, he actually smiles.

He leaves with his coffees shortly after, looking much calmer than he was before, and Kamilla smiles to herself. Mission accomplished.

She doesn’t know how Cisco would feel if he learned he was dating a metahuman—because that’s what she is, she’s finally determined; she is a metahuman. Her powers may not be anything spectacular, but she is a metahuman nonetheless. Cisco’s pretty cool about a lot of things, so he probably wouldn’t be bothered by this—if she decides to eventually tell him about it, anyway.

She’s honestly not sure how she feels about it. It doesn’t affect her life in any major way, and if she pleases, she could go her entire life without anyone else ever knowing it. Still, it makes some already uncomfortable comments about metahumans even less fun to hear. At the same time, the majority of the known metahumans don’t do themselves any favors by choosing a life of crime, and she’s not sure she wants to align herself with that kind of crowd. The Flash and the rest of the local heroes are widely regarded as the exceptions, not the rule. But maybe there are more metas quietly living their lives like her—maybe even the true majority of metas are. Would being out and proud about it make it easier for others to do the same, or would it just put her in danger? Would it even make a difference? Does it even matter?

Part of her wants to tell him because he’s a scientist, and maybe he can help her understand how her powers work. And yet another part of her feels like there’s no need to bother. She’s happy, she’s healthy, and while she is unnerved about there being a metahuman serial killer on the loose, she doubts he’ll know to target her. Besides, the Flash and his team can probably handle him, right? They always trump the bad guys and save the day in the end.

Cisco is with Kamilla at the farmers market when she casually brings up the new metahuman cure. She’s pleased that his thoughts on it boil down to being glad that metahumans who don’t want their powers now have the choice to get rid of them. Choice is the keyword here. He doesn’t think metahumans shouldn’t exist, and he doesn’t think they should be forced to take the cure against their will. And at the same time, he doesn’t think they should have to keep their powers if they’d rather live their lives without them. It’s comforting to know that he would support her whether she chose to keep her powers or not (hypothetically, anyway—she still doesn’t know if she wants to tell him about them or if she just wants to keep that information to herself).

He spots a vendor selling tomatillos, and he leaves Kamilla to pay for her mushrooms while he buys the final and most essential ingredient he needs to make his famous Ramon Sauce, which Kamilla is excited about getting to try for the first time tonight.

As the mushroom vendor is handing Kamilla her bag, she hears a creaking sound from above. She turns around, following the sound with her gaze to see one of the big fans on the pavilion ceiling fall—right over the tomatillo stand.

With a gasp, she reaches out and puts all she has into stopping the vibrations over Cisco’s head, her hold on them loose enough not to still them completely, but tight enough to hold them in place.

The fan bounces off the vibration field, crashing into a flower pot display across the aisle and making a huge mess.

Cisco turns suddenly at the noise, startled and confused, but unscathed. The rest of the market quickly becomes abuzz with everyone wanting to know what happened. Some people scurry toward the fallen fan, others away from it, and questions are asked and answers are given. No one looks Kamilla’s way or says anything about her, and even the mushroom vendor, still staring at the ceiling, seems to have been too distracted by the fan itself to notice the way she’s holding out her arm (which she quickly draws back in before anyone can notice).

Kamilla rushes to Cisco’s side, arriving just as the tomatillo vendor is recovering his bearings, though Cisco is still stunned.

“I don’t know how that thing didn’t hit you,” the vendor is saying. “Can’t imagine what would make it land all the way over there, but lucky thing it did!”

Cisco’s breathing deepens. The initial shock appears to be wearing off as he now looks more disconcerted at the knowledge that he was almost taken out by the big hefty thing. He looks around anxiously—for what, Kamilla doesn’t know. It’s almost as if he expects to find the phantom of the farmers market lurking in the shadows and singing about his plan to make some other young engineer the most renowned in the city (okay, so technically Cisco doesn’t hold that title, either—but he does to Kamilla).

“Babe, are you okay?” Kamilla asks, setting a hand on his shoulder.

“I don’t know,” Cisco says bemusedly. “Did you see what happened?”

Kamilla shakes her head. “I missed the whole thing.”

Cisco looks up at the ceiling again, and Kamilla can see the math happening in his head right now. She was never an ace at physics, but even she can tell that the fan’s falling path wouldn’t be possible without interference.

A lady in an apron starting to clean up the mess pulls Cisco’s attention as she rants that she’s been telling the owner of this place that they need to replace those piece-of-junk fans, and maybe now he’ll listen to her. He looks a little reassured by her words (not the work of the phantom of the farmers market after all?), and he finishes buying his tomatillos, though he’s still befuddled about the whole thing.

“I just don’t understand how it ended up hitting the flower pots,” he says as they’re walking out, arm in arm.

“I don’t, either,” Kamilla replies. “But why question a good thing?”

Cisco shrugs. “Yeah, I guess. But it’s so weird—I mean, right before the crash, for a second there it felt like—”

Kamilla’s stomach drops. It shouldn’t be possible for him to have felt the change in the energy. No one else has ever noticed it when she held it still before. For the first time in months, she thinks about the weird phenomenon in the bar the night they met. “It felt like what?”

She must be projecting, because for a split second, Cisco is the one who looks nervous. But his expression looks normal again quickly enough. “Nothing.” He turns to her and smiles. “You’re right. Why question a good thing? I must just have someone up there looking out for me.”

Kamilla smiles back. Or someone down here, she doesn’t say.

She’s starting to think she’s just gonna keep these powers after all. Not that she was too seriously contemplating getting rid of them before, but now, more than a set of pros and cons, she has incentive. She may not be quite superhero material, but if she can keep one person safe with them, that’s worthwhile cause enough—especially if that person is Cisco.

Besides, the Flash and his team can only take care of so much at once. If she doesn’t stop heavy falling objects from flattening her boyfriend, then who will? It’s not like she can speed-dial Vibe.

[coldflash-corner]

thought about my fandom ocs for so long i momentarily forgot they were my lil guys and almost tried searching fic of them on ao3 :"")

[ilikesuperheroesokay]

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10 Best Network Monitoring Tools (June 2024)

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10 Best Network Monitoring Tools (June 2024)

Effective network monitoring is crucial for maintaining the performance and reliability of today’s complex IT environments. With the right tools, network administrators can proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact end-users. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the best network monitoring solutions available, including both cloud-based platforms and open-source options.

Auvik is a cloud-based network monitoring and management platform designed to give IT teams full visibility and control over their networks. It automates many complex and time-consuming network management tasks, allowing administrators to work more efficiently. By providing real-time network mapping, detailed device information, and intelligent alerts, Auvik enables IT professionals to proactively monitor network health and quickly troubleshoot issues.

One of Auvik’s standout capabilities is its ability to automatically discover and inventory all devices on the network within minutes of deployment. It creates dynamic, interactive topology maps that visualize physical and logical connections between devices. Auvik also provides in-depth traffic analysis to easily identify who is on the network, what they are doing, and where their traffic is going. With features like automated config backups and an intuitive dashboard to access key network data from anywhere, Auvik is a comprehensive tool to streamline network management.

Key features of Auvik include:

Automated network discovery and inventory that provides a complete view of all network devices

Dynamic network mapping to visualize physical and logical network topology

Intelligent network traffic analysis to monitor bandwidth usage and identify traffic patterns

Automated configuration backups and easy restore to quickly recover from network issues

Extensive integrations with popular IT platforms and a powerful API to build custom workflows

Visit Auvik →

SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Their flagship product for network monitoring is called Network Performance Monitor (NPM). NPM is designed to provide comprehensive network monitoring capabilities that allow IT professionals to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues and outages.

SolarWinds NPM can automatically discover network devices and start monitoring them within hours of deployment. It provides real-time visibility into the health and performance of routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, wireless access points, and any other SNMP-enabled devices. NPM uses a web-based interface with customizable dashboards, views, and charts to present critical performance metrics at a glance. It also includes advanced alerting capabilities to notify administrators of issues before they impact end-users.

In addition to NPM, SolarWinds offers several other tools that extend its network monitoring capabilities. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides detailed visibility into bandwidth usage by application, protocol, and IP address group. Network Configuration Manager automates network configuration and change management. IP Address Manager streamlines IP address management with integrated DHCP and DNS servers. Taken together, these tools provide a comprehensive and scalable network monitoring solution.

Key features of SolarWinds network monitoring tools include:

Automated network discovery and mapping to quickly inventory devices and visualize topology

Customizable dashboards, views, and reports to present key performance metrics and health data

Over 1200 pre-built templates for monitoring Cisco, HP, Dell, Juniper, and other network device vendors

Advanced alerting with dynamic baseline thresholds and dependencies to reduce false alarms

PerfStack performance analysis dashboard for easy cross-stack data correlation and root cause identification

Visit SolarWinds →

LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor is a SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring platform that provides unified visibility into complex and hybrid IT environments. It offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities across networks, servers, cloud resources, applications, and more. By collecting metrics, logs, and traces through an agentless collector architecture, LogicMonitor delivers real-time insights into the health and performance of the entire technology stack.

One of LogicMonitor’s key strengths is its ability to automatically discover and monitor devices within minutes of deployment. It creates dynamic topology maps to visualize relationships between critical resources. LogicMonitor also leverages AI and machine learning for advanced capabilities like anomaly detection, forecasting, and intelligent alerting. With customizable dashboards, pre-configured alert thresholds, and extensive integrations, LogicMonitor optimizes digital experiences while consolidating tools and reducing operational overhead.

Key features of LogicMonitor include:

Automated discovery and monitoring of devices, cloud resources, and applications

Dynamic topology mapping to visualize relationships and dependencies

AI-driven insights for anomaly detection, forecasting, and smart alerting

Customizable dashboards and reporting for tailored views of key metrics

Extensive integrations with 2000+ technologies and open API for custom data sources

Visit LogicMonitor →

Nagios

Nagios is a powerful open-source IT infrastructure monitoring tool that enables organizations to identify and resolve problems before they impact critical business processes. Originally developed under the name NetSaint in 1999, Nagios has evolved to become one of the most widely used monitoring platforms, with thousands of projects and plugins extending its core functionality. Nagios runs natively on Linux and other Unix-like systems but can also be deployed on Windows using virtualization.

At its core, Nagios is designed to monitor hosts, services, and network devices. It uses a server-client architecture where plugins run on remote hosts to collect data and send it back to the Nagios server for processing. When issues are detected, Nagios can send alerts via email, SMS, or other notification channels to IT staff, allowing them to quickly respond to outages or performance problems. Nagios also provides a web-based interface for viewing monitoring status, generating reports, and managing configuration.

Beyond its core monitoring engine, the Nagios ecosystem includes several other tools to extend its capabilities. Nagios XI provides an enterprise-grade web interface, advanced visualizations, and features like capacity planning and audit logging. Nagios Fusion allows centralized viewing of multiple Nagios instances. Nagios Log Server enables log monitoring and analysis, while Nagios Network Analyzer provides NetFlow-based traffic analysis.

Key features of Nagios include:

Comprehensive monitoring of IT infrastructure components including servers, network devices, applications, and services

Flexible, plugin-based architecture that allows monitoring of virtually any resource

Centralized view of monitoring status via web interface with user-specific views and dashboards

Proactive alerting via multiple channels to ensure rapid response to issues

Extensible ecosystem with add-ons for log monitoring, network analysis, configuration management, and more

Visit Nagios →

Zabbix

Zabbix is a mature and feature-rich open-source network monitoring solution designed for monitoring the availability and performance of IT infrastructure components including servers, network devices, virtual machines and cloud services. It provides a centralized monitoring system that enables real-time monitoring of thousands of metrics collected from servers, network devices and applications.

One of Zabbix’s key strengths is its flexibility and extensibility. It can monitor a wide range of devices and systems using multiple methods including Zabbix agent, SNMP, IPMI, JMX and custom checks. Zabbix also provides powerful data visualization capabilities including custom graphs, network maps, dashboards and reports. With features like anomaly detection, predictive analytics and auto-discovery of devices, Zabbix helps IT teams proactively monitor their infrastructure and quickly troubleshoot issues.

Key features of Zabbix include:

Distributed monitoring with support for remote Zabbix proxies for monitoring across multiple locations

Agentless monitoring using multiple protocols including SNMP, IPMI, JMX, SSH and Telnet

Powerful data visualization with custom graphs, network maps, dashboards and slideshows

Flexible alerting with customizable escalation scenarios and multiple notification channels

Auto-discovery for automatic registration of new devices and application of appropriate monitoring templates

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Datadog is a comprehensive cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform designed to provide real-time visibility into modern IT environments. It enables organizations to monitor their entire infrastructure, including servers, databases, applications, network devices, and cloud services. By collecting, searching, and analyzing metrics, traces, and logs across fully distributed architectures, Datadog empowers IT teams to proactively detect and resolve performance issues before they impact end-users.

Datadog supports over 600 technologies and services out-of-the-box. This allows seamless data collection from various sources, providing a holistic view of the IT ecosystem. Datadog also offers customizable dashboards, intelligent alerts, and collaboration features, enabling teams to efficiently monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their systems. With its scalable architecture and flexible deployment options, Datadog caters to businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises.

Key features of Datadog include:

Real-time monitoring of servers, containers, databases, and cloud services, with auto-discovery and detailed performance metrics

End-to-end tracing of requests across distributed systems, identifying bottlenecks and optimizing application performance

Centralized log collection, indexing, and analysis, with powerful search and filtering capabilities 

Visibility into network traffic, analyzing communication between services, containers, and cloud environments 

Customizable dashboards for visualizing key metrics in real-time

Visit Datadog →

AdRem NetCrunch is a comprehensive network monitoring and management solution designed to provide real-time visibility into IT infrastructure. It offers a wide range of features to streamline network monitoring, including auto-discovery of devices, performance monitoring, customizable dashboards, and an intuitive alerting system. NetCrunch runs on Windows and provides an agentless approach to monitoring, making it easy to deploy and scale.

NetCrunch automatically discovers and maps network devices, creating a dynamic, interactive network atlas. This allows IT teams to visualize their network topology, identify dependencies, and quickly locate the root cause of issues. NetCrunch supports monitoring of various devices and systems, including servers, network devices, applications, virtual environments, and cloud services.

Key features of AdRem NetCrunch:

Agentless monitoring using protocols like SNMP, WMI, and SSH

Automatic network discovery and interactive topology mapping

Customizable dashboards and alerts for tailored network insights

Supports monitoring of servers, network devices, VMs, and cloud services

Extensive reporting and integration with IT management platforms

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Observium is an open-source network monitoring and management platform that offers auto-discovery capabilities to automatically detect and monitor devices on the network, including servers, switches, routers, and more. Observium supports a wide range of device types and operating systems, such as Cisco, Windows, Linux, HP, Juniper, Dell, and others.

Observium boasts a user-friendly web interface, which presents network data through customizable dashboards, graphs, and reports. It collects data using SNMP and stores it using RRD (Round-Robin Database), enabling efficient storage and retrieval of historical performance metrics. Observium also provides alerting features to notify administrators of potential issues or performance degradations.

Key features of Observium:

Automatic discovery of network devices for easy setup and monitoring

Support for a wide range of device types and operating systems

Customizable dashboards and graphs for data visualization

Alerting system to notify administrators of potential issues

Scalable architecture to monitor large and complex network environments

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Domotz is a comprehensive cloud-based network monitoring and management software designed for MSPs, IT professionals, and enterprises. It provides real-time visibility and control over IT infrastructure, enabling users to work more efficiently, increase productivity, and resolve issues faster. Domotz offers a user-friendly interface and automated features such as network discovery, topology mapping, and device inventory.

Domotz can monitor a wide range of devices, including servers, workstations, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, and IoT devices, regardless of the manufacturer. It supports various monitoring protocols like SNMP, WMI, and SSH. Domotz also provides secure remote access to devices for troubleshooting, as well as network configuration management with backup and restore capabilities.

Key features of Domotz:

Automated network discovery, inventory, and topology mapping

Supports monitoring of diverse devices across multiple sites and networks

Secure remote access for troubleshooting and issue resolution

Network configuration management with backup, restore and change alerts

Intuitive web-based interface with customizable dashboards and reporting

Visit Domotz →

AKIPS

AKIPS is a powerful and scalable network monitoring software designed to provide comprehensive visibility into large enterprise network infrastructures. It offers a fully-featured, fast, and cost-effective solution for monitoring network performance, enabling network engineers to proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact business operations. AKIPS can monitor over one million interfaces and 500,000 flows per second from a single server, making it one of the most scalable network monitoring tools on the market.

One of the standout features of AKIPS is its ability to provide real-time insights and historical data down to one-minute granularity for up to three years. This allows network administrators to quickly identify the root cause of issues and make informed decisions. AKIPS also offers automated device discovery, adaptive polling, syslog and SNMP trap management, NetFlow analysis, and configuration management capabilities, providing a comprehensive toolkit for network monitoring and management.

Key one-line features of AKIPS:

Scalable architecture monitoring over 1 million interfaces from a single server

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[kettlefire]

Aged up Danny gets a job with Barry.

Danny move to Central City for plenty of reasons. The biggest one? He's not really needed there. He won't be the only super-powered being in the city, which means he won't always have to jump in when someone is in trouble.

It was nice. Strange, and it took his core a while to relax and understand. If someone was in true, immediate danger, he helps. He can't help it, but he isn't Phantom.

Not anymore, not after everything.

No matter how hard he tries, he won't ever be able to ignore that part of him. So he leaned into it. Used his heightened senses, and abilities, to find a normal job.

Got a job at a police station.

It was probably stupid, but if he could just help people from behind a desk and paperwork, he was happy.

CSI, something that's interested him but he never expected to ever join the career. He finally made the final push he needed to, and landed himself a real job.

He was finally at the point of being as normal as he possibly can be. It was a rock-solid plan. A much better plan than every other plan. There was no way to mess it up. It was bulletproof.

Thing was, it wasn't lightning proof.

Imagine Danny's surprise when his boss, and trainer, was essentially a ball of electricity. Power and force spread from the man in jabs. Brushing against everything around him, without a single trace.

The power radiated off this clumsy man in waves.

It was almost blinding.

But Danny is the best at ignoring potential problems, so he did. His boss was a ball of energy? That's fine. Not his problem. It wasn't hurting anyone.

Yea sure, he connected the same energy to Central City's own hero The Flash, but that didn't matter.

It wouldn't have mattered if his boss didn't act like he was walking on egg shells around Danny.

Like one wrong move and Danny was going to combust.

He couldn't figure out why Barry was so weird towards him. Danny was actively ignoring the fact this man was his own light bulb, and still managed to act a lot more normal than Barry was.

Danny likes to stay away from most complicated things. Someone in tune with the speed force? That's one of them.

But he couldn't do it this time.

Simply because he didn't like being treated like a wildcard. So he kept pushing. Kept going the extra mile to try and get on a okay feeling level with his boss. 

That was until Danny over heard him on the phone.

“I know Caitlyn, it’s just... There’s something off with him, it just feels... wrong.”

So he stopped, didn’t bother trying to be friendly. He just came in, did his job, then went home. He noticed Barry watching him, and he didn’t care. 

He’s been called wrong enough times in his life, he wasn’t going to try to befriend someone who thought that before getting to know him. 

Danny wasn't going to try and fix it anymore. It's failed in the past and he wasn't going to do that again.

Then came the anger.

Danny couldn't help it. Barry had been actively avoiding him during the time Danny had tried to get on good terms.

But the moment Danny changed tactic. Backed off, and didn't do anything but his work. Barry changed tactic too.

Maybe it had to do with Barry's weird friends, and whatever it was that phone call had been about. But all of a sudden, Barry was going the extra mile to interact with Danny.

Every where he turned, there was Barry. He'd go to the furthest coffee shop, and somehow still run into the man. It was getting irritating, and Danny could feeling it all boiling the longer he kept seeing that look in Barry's eyes.

Like the man was trying to befriend a feral wild animal. A danger to society. It kept reminding Danny of the life he was trying to forget.

Then it happened.

It was a complete accident. Barry was trying to talk Danny into going out with him and his friends. And Danny was trying to politely get away from the situation. Barry wasn't letting him. So Danny may have accidentally blown up.

"I heard the phone call, Barry! I've been trying to be nothing but nice to you, and you're a literally walking lightbulb! But I come off strange to you, so I just have to be wrong!?"

Danny say the look of confusion and realization fill Barry's expression. His boss moved to speak, but Danny didn't want to hear it. He need to leave. To do something to get out the feelings he had.

Then he spotted it. The shift in the lightning around Barry, a clear indicator the man was going to activate it.

So, Danny did the only thing he could think to do. He froze Barry's shoes to the ground. It wasn't a smart move. It was purely panic driven.

One look at Barry's face, and Danny ran.

Went straight to his apartment and started packing a go-bag. He cursed himself for ever taking it apart before. He got too comfortable, and it was coming back to bite him.

Danny should have expected what met him when he opened the door. Barry and his two scientist friends standing in the opening. Having been about to knock.

The young halfa wishes he could say he handled it with grace. That he just vanished out of view, and literally ghosted everyone.

Except he didn't. No, no Danny wasn't that lucky. Instead he felt the familiar growing panic sweep through his system. Moving back away from the door as he tried to calm himself.

Danny's automatic reaction threw him straight into a panic attack. The first one in much too long.

Short DPXDC Prompts #306

Danny is living in Central City. Danny and Flash can sense each other because they both are attuned to an extra dimensional force. Flash simply can only sense that there’s something off about this kid. Danny can see the freaking speed force crackle and move around this guy like an aura of lightning and neutral intention.

[101now]

NJ men admit to trafficking fake Cisco devices worth millions

Listen to this article Three New Jersey men pleaded guilty to trafficking millions of dollars’ worth of fake computer networking equipment, according to authorities. Musa Karaman, 35, of North Arlington, entered a guilty plea Aug. 24 in Trenton federal court on one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods, while Sadri Ozturan, 37, of Hawthorne, and Israfil Demir, 38, of Secaucus, each pleaded…

[cyberstudious]

Free Resources for Learning Cybersecurity

I created this post for the Studyblr Masterpost Jam, check out the tag for more cool masterposts from folks in the studyblr community!

Free Online Courses

Linux Foundation Cybersecurity Courses - many of their beginner/introductory courses are free

Professor Messer's Security+ Course - a great intro to cybersecurity, gave me the skills to pass my Security+ exam

Khan Academy Cryptography - solid foundations for understanding the math behind encryption

ISC2's new entry level cert & training CC is free, although for a limited time

Linux Journey - learn Linux, the command line, and basic networking

Free CTFs & Ways to Practice

What is a CTF? - HackTheBox isn't a free platform, but this is a good article explaining what a CTF is and how to approach it

OverTheWire Bandit - practice your Linux skills

PicoCTF - this one already ran this year but their website has plenty of resources

Microcorruption - binary exploitation challenges

Hacker101 - web security CTF

Cryptopals Cryptography Challenges

Nightmare - binary exploitation & reverse engineering challenges

Cybersecurity News: follow what's happening in the industry

KrebsOnSecurity - security & cybercrime news, investigative journalism

SANS StormCast - daily 5-minute security news podcast

SANS Internet Storm Center - security blog posts

Cisco Talos blog - security news, threat intelligence & malware investigations

Schneier on Security - security & society

Black Hills Information Security webcasts

Darknet Diaries podcast

Other Free Resources

Trail of Bits's CTF Field Guide

PicoCTF Resources and Practice

SANS Cheat Sheets - all areas of security & tech

OWASP Cheat Sheets - application security & web attacks

LaurieWired's YouTube channel - high-quality videos on low-level tech

LiveOverflow's YouTube channel - binary exploitation

SANS Webinars

Cybersecurity Certifications Roadmap

Cybersecurity Job Supply and Demand Map (for the U.S.)

EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense - guides for how to protect yourself online

Don't Forget the Library!

If you have access to a public or school library, check out their technical books and see what they have to offer. O'Reilly and No Starch Press are my favorite publishers for technical and cybersecurity books, but be on the lookout for study guides for the Security+ and other certifications - these will give you a good introduction to the basics. I wrote more about cybersecurity books in yesterday's masterpost.

[nyyx-xoxx]

Certified Cat Behavior

hello! im nyx. i use any pronouns except he/him (pronouns page). i am a minor ^^

current hyperfixations are: ghost files (watcher) , sky cotl , tlou , agatha all along , chnt

hobbies!! rollerskating, scrapbooking, doing origami, cooking / baking, photography, light painting, playing Sky: Children of the Light, playing Legend of Zelda: TotK and BotW

music artists i like!! AURORA, TV Girl, Renee Rapp, Femtanyl, baby bugs, beabadoobee, Beetlebug, machine girl, BENEE, t.A.T.u., San Cisco, Fleetwood Mac, Billie Eilish, Bo Burnham, Instupendo, mxmtoon, Cynthia erivo, and more !

other things im into!! Musicals (specifically come from away), capybaras, the sky and STARS, dark forest green, wine red, nature, hanging out with me friends

fun facts!! i live in australia (AEDT), i have been to america 5 times, ive been to japan once, i really want to go to sweden and the netherlands, i have a younger sibling, i like to read

fandoms!! agatha all along, tlou, arcane, the electric state 2025, hilda, ATLA and TLOK, carry on simon snow, legend of zelda, 2001 ASO, invader zim, studio ghibli, tim burton fimls, wicked (the movie), and theres more !

boundaries and dni!! racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, ableists, xenophobes, bigots of any kind, pedophiles, anything nsfw

chat I love my friends

i really like stars a lot

hi please talk to me I'm lonely :> i love asks!!!!! feel free to drop anything in there ^^

i tend to change up my blog a lot.. sorry in advance lol

also.. my beloved boyfriend @cursedcocktail is so awesome and cool..

linktree★

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#they don’t even have a bucket to shit in - @marywisdom

NOT EVEN A BUCKET TO SHIT IN!!!

Barry Allen and co. are imprisoning people indefinitely without trial in tiny cells that were not designed for human habitation with absolutely no modifications made to give them even the barest amenities! they don't even throw them sleeping bags! they did this for YEARS! the fact that every person who escapes the pipeline immediately tries to kill Barry or whichever of his friends is closest is ENTIRELY understandable! he is making ordinary prisons look downright humane!

See I already knew this, but when you look at pics it’s a whole different story

THE PIPELINE CELLS ARE FUCKING S M A L L

[shriekinghavoc]

preview of a bigger drawing

[uhumqueeuamo]

Você e só Você 

Vc sempre me surpreendendo! De um jeito ou de outro..rs. Mas incrível que sempre que eu acho que não consigo te amar mais do que amo (pelo menos não sem viver o que poderíamos) vc vem e faz meu coração maior. Já tinha feito isso no sábado. Aquele meu texto, por mais que eu tenha tentado, nem de longe representou o quão saí dali te amando mais que antes. Ou se não tão mais, pelo menos, deixando sair este amor que estava tentando guardar, pelo silencio das últimas semanas. Mas aí, depois de um domingo dilacerante e uma segunda de conversas amorosas mas ainda “doloridas”, vc vem e consegue de novo… me faz amar mais você… faz um texto que me fez encher os olhos dágua pela segunda vez no dia (a primeira qdo vc interpretou mal o que disse sobre ex colegas e naquela hora que escrevi Amo tanto vc, tive que ir ao banheiro para conter este cisco no meu olho..rs). (Vc me fez um chorão as vezes rsrs.). Me emocionei nao só pelo amor que senti que vc colocou ali mas pela despedida… De toda forma, depositando amor, vc fez um dos textos mais fofos, lindos e amorosos da nossa história. Me tocou de uma forma como se eu tivesse com vc ali na minha frente sentada naquele banquinho do Zenon, lendo este texto. E sinceramente mesmo tendo um tom meio de despedida ou um até logo ou sei lá, o amor depositado ali encheu meu coração. E vc foi de novo, com este texto, a melhor parte do meu dia. Não que nao tenha sentido amor nas outras postagens mas acho que a saudade gigante que estou e a real possibilidade do fim e o teste dele nos últimos dias, tornaram qualquer contato seu um céu estrelado que se sente de dia e até de olhos fechados. Eu fiquei bobo de como vc encontrou uma imagem tão perfeita quanto essa de um casal de velhinhos que se amam, brincam e andam lado a lado… acho que uma das imagens mais fofas e mais “nós“ que nossos corações poderiam idealizar e sonhar. Como pode vc ter achado este apertinho de bumbum? Rsrsrs. Demais mesmo. Só vc… ☺️. Esta imagem fez desta carta uma das mais especiais pra mim. 

Li seu texto algumas vezes. E por mais que ele seja um complemento do anterior que vc apagou, talvez por querer deixar uma última postagem mais bonita, em todas as vezes que eu li tentei achar algo de esperança. As vezes achava, as vezes não. E fico me apegando a palavras e interpretações que nao é uma despedida… mas é né?!… e tudo bem.. (😔). Sou daqueles que acham que Deus nao nos dá felicidade mas sim a oportunidade de sermos felizes. E sou grato por ter vivido e ido atrás desta felicidade. E acho que a dor que sinto e toda a minha angustia interna é talvez parte justamente por ela estar ir embora. E como dói…

Sobre o que vc falou, eu nunca quis machucar você e pelo contrario. Qdo sentia que algo ia te machucar eu ficava sempre tenso para não deixar isso acontecer. E talvez, por tabela, tenha te chateado. Mas nunca foi o que quis. No sábado nao foi diferente. Ao sair da sua casa no sábado ao mesmo tempo que meu carro não parecia mais um carro e sim nuvens, eu saí com um sentimento de que minha resposta à sua pergunta sobre a terapia nao foi o que acho que vc queria. E eu nao poderia nao dizer a verdade. Mesmo sobre o risco de vc interpretar que essa verdade excluía ficarmos juntos. E isso nao foi o que eu disse, apesar de vc ter interpretado isso. Nao mesmo. Busco saber entender o que sinto e a partir disso, seguir. Pensando em mim um pouco mais, inclusive.

Eu fiquei com medo de ir ver seu blog e desculpe. Foi puro medo de “tocar” palavras de fim novamente e qual forma viria… pois as de sábado, me machucaram muito. Talvez assim como as minhas a vc, como vc disse. Mas eu entendo sim. E vc nao foi grosseira ou fria ou indiferente na anterior. Como disse, eu nao fiquei com raiva em nenhum momento. Talvez um pouquinho de mágoa mas logo passou pq entendo. Senti sim surpresa e uma tristeza muito profunda. E eu entendo realmente sim seu lado… muito mais do que imagina. 

Eu nao vou dizer que esta será minha última postagem como disse em outra. Nao ainda (quem sabe nunca e velhinhos juntos paremos para ver as mais de mil postagens ☺️…). Nao quero e ainda nao consigo enxergar um fim pelo o que eu vi e senti no sábado com vc naqueles momentos. E claro, um sentimento meu. Meu coração não deixa. Mas vou respeitar a sua decisão. Vir aqui de vez em quando (ou de vez em sempre..rs) e escrever e postar faz parte do meu processo. Seja ele de manter esperança como falei, seja de me despedir se assim tiver que ser…😔.

E sobre esperança, confesso que o eu senti no sábado foi absolutamente tocar o amor na sua essência. Ali, fui eu, vc foi vc, e naqueles minutos, fomos nós. E eis o que eu acho o que significa liberdade: a capacidade de desfrutar e ser exatamente quem vc é sem se reprimir sob a forma de julgamento. E nunca senti tanta liberdade como senti dentro do nosso abraço. 

PS1: Está imagem minha nem de longe é tão fofa e bonita quanto a sua mas pelo o que representa e naquele instante que foi feita, é tão especial quanto… nunca vou esquecer…

PS2: Sobre o tanto que vc falou de amor nesta carta… pode continuar, se quiser… 🥰

PS3: Amo mais…

Uhum…

@talvezumdiaounao