In the world of network and systems monitoring, you’re bombarded by a billion (small exaggeration for the sake of alliteration, but not by much) three- and four-letter acronyms. Engineers love long names for stuff, and love even more converting those long names into acronyms. LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol for those who aren’t network ninjas), SNMP, WinRM, WMI, DNS, LAN, WAN, VPN, DHCP, TCP, HTTP, FTP, MPLS, IPAM, NOC… the list is almost endless. Luckily the wicked smart engineers that built Lumics network and systems monitoring understand what all these acronyms mean, and how to help other wicked smart engineers utilize and monitor them all successfully.