Our August Newsletter is ready. It talks about the recent releases and we mention the upcoming Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool 2.54 and NetScanTools Pro 11.72. Those will be done very soon.
Please visit:
http://www.netscantools.com/pressandnewsletters.html
Have a great end of summer!
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Friday, July 31, 2015
July Newsletter Ready
This newsletter covers the recent NetScanTools Basic 2.4 and Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool 2.53 releases along with Windows 10 compatibility. Have a good summer!
Thursday, September 5, 2013
NetScanTools August 2013 Newsletter
The NetScanTools newsletter was published last week and primarily it talks about the website overhaul of http://www.nwpsw.com using Bootstrap. Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/) is an interesting set of CSS and JavaScript templates that allow your site to be viewed equally well in a desktop, mobile or tablet screen format without any changes to your site pages. Gerald Combs (Wireshark) told me about it - he converted Wireshark.org to use it earlier this year.
http://www.netscantools.com/pressandnewsletters/NST_News_August_2013.pdf
Enjoy!
Kirk
http://www.netscantools.com/pressandnewsletters/NST_News_August_2013.pdf
Enjoy!
Kirk
Friday, July 5, 2013
June 2013 NetScanTools Newsletter Ready
This newsletter talks about the two Managed Switch Port Mapper releases that happened in June. The first release 2.10 addresses a problem with the size of the ARP table when you ping scan a subnet while on Windows 8, 7, Vista or 2012/2008. The second release 2.11 fixed a problem using SNMPv3 on Cisco switches. One part of the problem had to do with the Context field and the other part had to do with the required changes to running-config in order to map the switch.
I go into detail the changes to IOS based Cisco switches that are required to map them when communicating with SNMPv3. Mapping a Cisco switch with SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c is pretty easy, running-config on requires the command snmp-server community public to allow mapping the switch with the community name of public. But SNMPv3 requires more than that, specifically contexts have to be supported and ideally prefix matching. The details will be posted in another blog post.
A third major new topic in the newsletter are the new training video series - a full hour of videos that cover using Managed Switch Port Mapper v2.x. Some new NetScanTools Pro videos were also added. Please visit this link for the training video playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1forIW_A8wneXBqnm4bwIxpnToHGOSCX
This link goes to the NetScanTools Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/netscantools
The final topic is a reminder about the release of NetScanTools Pro version 11.50 in May. The two new tools are the Duplicate IP Scanner and Firewall Rules Tool. A visible new addition to Ping, Ping Scan, ARP Ping and Traceroute are the new timing charts showing times. You can print or save the charts as images.
Look for a new release of NetScanTools Pro in July and another release of the Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool too.
I go into detail the changes to IOS based Cisco switches that are required to map them when communicating with SNMPv3. Mapping a Cisco switch with SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c is pretty easy, running-config on requires the command snmp-server community public to allow mapping the switch with the community name of public. But SNMPv3 requires more than that, specifically contexts have to be supported and ideally prefix matching. The details will be posted in another blog post.
A third major new topic in the newsletter are the new training video series - a full hour of videos that cover using Managed Switch Port Mapper v2.x. Some new NetScanTools Pro videos were also added. Please visit this link for the training video playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1forIW_A8wneXBqnm4bwIxpnToHGOSCX
This link goes to the NetScanTools Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/netscantools
The final topic is a reminder about the release of NetScanTools Pro version 11.50 in May. The two new tools are the Duplicate IP Scanner and Firewall Rules Tool. A visible new addition to Ping, Ping Scan, ARP Ping and Traceroute are the new timing charts showing times. You can print or save the charts as images.
Look for a new release of NetScanTools Pro in July and another release of the Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool too.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
NetScanTools May Newsletter
This newsletter was published last week and it talks about the latest releases of NetScanTools Pro and the Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool.
http://www.netscantools.com/pressandnewsletters/NST_News_May_2013.pdf
Enjoy!
http://www.netscantools.com/pressandnewsletters/NST_News_May_2013.pdf
Enjoy!
Thursday, January 31, 2013
January NetScanTools Newsletter Ready
The January edition of the NetScanTools Newsletter is ready. Topics include version app release announcements and how to effectively use the Ping Sweep function of the Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool on a large subnet.
Also a preview of what we are working on for NetScanTools Pro 11.5...
http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html
Also a preview of what we are working on for NetScanTools Pro 11.5...
http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html
Monday, December 20, 2010
December News
I've been pretty busy this month and I haven't updated the blog much - I hope to provide more timely updates in 2011. V11 status: All the tools from NetScanTools Pro v10 have been transferred to v11 and I'm working on finishing tooltips and icons along with general cleanup of things as I run across them.
The latest December newsletter was published last week. You can find it on our website at http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html - there is one very important thing in there that I will address here. In version 10.98.1 I changed the manifest so that USER level accounts could run the program without logging in as administrator on Windows 7-64 bit (this does not seem to be an issue on Win 7-32). When you run a 32 application like NetScanTools Pro on Windows 7-64, it uses a portion of the registry called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Northwest Performance Software, Inc. which contains a redirected part "Wow6432Node". Users do not have privileges to change this key subtree and even if you login under an administrator account, the keys in this tree cannot be changed. So in order to apply registration information or change the maintenance plan expiration date, you have to right click on the NetScanTools Pro icon and select 'Run as administrator' to all the program to have full access to the keys.
The latest December newsletter was published last week. You can find it on our website at http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html - there is one very important thing in there that I will address here. In version 10.98.1 I changed the manifest so that USER level accounts could run the program without logging in as administrator on Windows 7-64 bit (this does not seem to be an issue on Win 7-32). When you run a 32 application like NetScanTools Pro on Windows 7-64, it uses a portion of the registry called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Northwest Performance Software, Inc. which contains a redirected part "Wow6432Node". Users do not have privileges to change this key subtree and even if you login under an administrator account, the keys in this tree cannot be changed. So in order to apply registration information or change the maintenance plan expiration date, you have to right click on the NetScanTools Pro icon and select 'Run as administrator' to all the program to have full access to the keys.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
October Newsletter Published
Unlike last month's newsletter, this one is on time. There are quite a few new topics including a mention of that Cisco Small Business Switch review. Status updates on NetScanTools Pro v11 are in it too.
The October NetScanTools Newsletter can be read here:
http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html
The October NetScanTools Newsletter can be read here:
http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
September Newsletter Published
Yes, I know it's October on Friday, but I've been busy. The September NetScanTools Newsletter can be read here:
http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html
Follow the progress of NetScanTools Pro v11 on Twitter or on Facebook.
http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html
Follow the progress of NetScanTools Pro v11 on Twitter or on Facebook.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Is the economy getting better? part 2
uh...maybe not.
We sent out an announcement yesterday about the release of NetScanTools Pro 10.95 and got back 13 bounced emails. I resent the announcement from an different domain just to be sure it was a real bounce and sure enough, 13 people are no longer employed since the last announcement at the beginning of November 2009.
We sent out an announcement yesterday about the release of NetScanTools Pro 10.95 and got back 13 bounced emails. I resent the announcement from an different domain just to be sure it was a real bounce and sure enough, 13 people are no longer employed since the last announcement at the beginning of November 2009.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Is the economy getting better?
Maybe. We send out a newsletter once a month and for the end of 2008 and all of 2009, we've had between 10-20 or more email bounce backs each month. While some of those could be bounced back for other reasons, our assumption is that the person is no longer at their job. Keep in mind that most of the email addresses in our list are business addresses and not personal home email addresses.
So a few days ago I sent out the January 2010 newsletter and I only had 3 'user unknown' email bounces. December 2009 was under 10, but only a little. A definite improvement.
Here is the January 2010 newsletter if you are interested:
http://www.netscantools.com/pressandnewsletters/NST_Pro_January_2010_News.pdf
I guess I could call this the "Email Bounce Economic Index".
So a few days ago I sent out the January 2010 newsletter and I only had 3 'user unknown' email bounces. December 2009 was under 10, but only a little. A definite improvement.
Here is the January 2010 newsletter if you are interested:
http://www.netscantools.com/pressandnewsletters/NST_Pro_January_2010_News.pdf
I guess I could call this the "Email Bounce Economic Index".
Sunday, October 4, 2009
September Newsletter Out
Yes, it was just barely released in September. Been busy. You can read it here:
http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html
http://www.netscantools.com/newsletters.html
Friday, October 3, 2008
New Freeware Tool and other ramblings
It's Friday. Finally. It's been a difficult couple of weeks watching the market news and Congress try to bailout Wall Street and fix the credit crisis. Funny, but they never talk about bailing out small businesses...
I saw the BLS summary of the unemployment report for September and I can directly attest to things I saw in it: every time we send out a newsletter announcement or a new program version announcement we see new bounces. Some of those may be due changes in server level email filtering, but I think more and more of them are people who have lost their jobs. In fact some of them are long time users of our software which is even more disturbing.
Speaking of the newsletter, we are sending it out once a month. Usually during the third week of the month. If you are on our list (or you think you are on it), please whitelist email from netscantools.com both on your workstation or laptop AND on your email server. We know that the word "netscantools" sometimes triggers spam filters, so please whitelist us if you want email from us. In case you missed one, the newsletter archive here.
Back to reality.
On October 1, I released a little tool as freeware that I originally made a couple years ago. This tool takes as input an IPv4 address of a device on your local subnet, then when you press the Get MAC Address button, it uses ARP to get the MAC address of the device. If the device is on and it can communicate over the network, it must respond. It must respond even if it is protected by a firewall like Windows Firewall. So it can't hide. Since ARP packets are not routed, you cannot use it to get the MAC address of some computer halfway around the world. The tool does this one IP at a time and it only works on your local subnet. If you need to scan a whole subnet with ARP to find every active device, we have that in NetScanTools Pro.
The freeware tool is called IPtoMAC and it runs on Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000 (it is codesigned for your protection) and you can download it here. It was also my first serious use of the new Visual Studio 2008 VC++ compiler. More on the new compiler in another post.
I saw the BLS summary of the unemployment report for September and I can directly attest to things I saw in it: every time we send out a newsletter announcement or a new program version announcement we see new bounces. Some of those may be due changes in server level email filtering, but I think more and more of them are people who have lost their jobs. In fact some of them are long time users of our software which is even more disturbing.
Speaking of the newsletter, we are sending it out once a month. Usually during the third week of the month. If you are on our list (or you think you are on it), please whitelist email from netscantools.com both on your workstation or laptop AND on your email server. We know that the word "netscantools" sometimes triggers spam filters, so please whitelist us if you want email from us. In case you missed one, the newsletter archive here.
Back to reality.
On October 1, I released a little tool as freeware that I originally made a couple years ago. This tool takes as input an IPv4 address of a device on your local subnet, then when you press the Get MAC Address button, it uses ARP to get the MAC address of the device. If the device is on and it can communicate over the network, it must respond. It must respond even if it is protected by a firewall like Windows Firewall. So it can't hide. Since ARP packets are not routed, you cannot use it to get the MAC address of some computer halfway around the world. The tool does this one IP at a time and it only works on your local subnet. If you need to scan a whole subnet with ARP to find every active device, we have that in NetScanTools Pro.
The freeware tool is called IPtoMAC and it runs on Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000 (it is codesigned for your protection) and you can download it here. It was also my first serious use of the new Visual Studio 2008 VC++ compiler. More on the new compiler in another post.
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