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Salesforce SOAP API

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I’ve become increasingly familiar with the Salesforce SOAP API in recent days. I’m currently using it to upload summarised financial data to our Salesforce org. The detail of which is too cumbersome and Unwieldy to be kept on a multi-tenant cloud system like Salesforce.

The system from which I upload this data is itself an ASP.net website available publicly. So the control of this upload can be done from anywhere on the internet.

Creating less and less reasons to come into the office. At least it makes moving premises more easy.

I plan to start doing more lookups into the Salesforce data to centralise our business processes.

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Graphing your Network

Netflow with Nfsen

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Here’s something I built a long time ago. Its a network graphing tool called NfSen. The system listens to data feeds sent from our Cisco routers and then processes the data and graphs it. The graphs and data are made available by an apache web server so can be viewed anywhere.

It enables us to see at a glance how our network is performing and if there is any unusual behavior occurring. With it we can see how much bandwidth our various connections are using and whether there are any capacity problems on any of our links. If any user has an infected desktop or is running a peer-to-peer sharing program they can be quickly and easily identified.

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The additional filtering of the data available allows us to see almost any information that we wish about the performance of our network links. I find it hard to remember what life was like without it.

And the best thing about it, cost…$0.00

(P.S. Putting the graphs up on an LCD screen in the IT dept for management to WOW over is fun too!)