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What is the Holy Grail, exactly? For everyone, it’s something different. As a Geek, what is your Holy Grail? Mine is finding great software and neat tools or apps to pass along to all of you. In my travels, I’ve found three helpful tools to help you maintain your Mac network.

DeployStudio was designed to manage large deployments of workstations, servers and cluster nodes with ease. Mac OS X is stable and robust but the capacity to (re)install completely a workstation or a server in a few minutes following a preset scenario that automatically restores the right disk image, configures and backs up what was planned by the administrator is a real benefit in terms of time and money. And this is where DeployStudio comes into play. You can easily manage and deploy images across your network. Best of all… this is completely free!

The DNS Performance Test will allow you to test the performance of your dns server ,and show you the results in chart form. This test is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. There are over 10,000 domain names listed in the domains.txt file. What the test will do is go out and measure the response times to any or all of these sites. The domains.txt can also be modified to suit your needs.

The HELIOS LanTest offers detailed Macintosh network evaluations for file and record locking as well as for many typical file system operations. LanTest results can be used for finding bottlenecks, for troubleshooting, or just for maintenance purposes. This will run a variety of test throughout your network, testing how fast transfers are actually going between the machine you’re running it from and any other on your network.

So those are three tools you may be able to use for your Mac. Do you have any other tools for any of the operating systems that is indispensable when managing or optimizing your network?

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What is the Holy Grail, exactly? For everyone, it’s something different. As a Geek, what is your Holy Grail? Mine is finding great software and neat tools or apps to pass along to all of you. In my travels, I’ve found three helpful tools to help you maintain your Mac network.

DeployStudio was designed to manage large deployments of workstations, servers and cluster nodes with ease. Mac OS X is stable and robust but the capacity to (re)install completely a workstation or a server in a few minutes following a preset scenario that automatically restores the right disk image, configures and backs up what was planned by the administrator is a real benefit in terms of time and money. And this is where DeployStudio comes into play. You can easily manage and deploy images across your network. Best of all… this is completely free!

The DNS Performance Test will allow you to test the performance of your dns server ,and show you the results in chart form. This test is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. There are over 10,000 domain names listed in the domains.txt file. What the test will do is go out and measure the response times to any or all of these sites. The domains.txt can also be modified to suit your needs.

The HELIOS LanTest offers detailed Macintosh network evaluations for file and record locking as well as for many typical file system operations. LanTest results can be used for finding bottlenecks, for troubleshooting, or just for maintenance purposes. This will run a variety of test throughout your network, testing how fast transfers are actually going between the machine you’re running it from and any other on your network.

So those are three tools you may be able to use for your Mac. Do you have any other tools for any of the operating systems that is indispensable when managing or optimizing your network?

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