JANUARY MONTHLY MISSION
PRIZES
January 15: Phillips Smart Bulb Kit
January 22: CORSAIR Gaming Keyboard & Mouse
January 29: Hyper X Gaming Head Set
Grand Prize
MISSION SHORTCUT
MISSION RULES
Correctly answer all 20 questions by February 4 and get entered to win the Grand Prize! Nest Cam Indoor Security Camera
Monthly Mission Terms and Conditions: US, UK, and Canada | Germany | Australia
Mission Shortcut Terms and Conditions: US, UK, and Canada | Germany | Australia
Amazing prizes!!! Starting 2018 missions really well!!
FYI the link to "Hyper X Gaming Head Set" sends me to http://www.https.com//www.amazon.com/HyperX-Cloud-Gaming-Headset-Line/dp/B01MTLMV89/ref=dp_ob_title_ce Just remove the http://www.https.com// of the link to make it work.
puppy power!!
Just a heads up, the Headset link needs a colon adding to it, the correct link is
https://www.amazon.com/HyperX-Cloud-Gaming-Headset-Line/dp/B01MTLMV89/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
New Year, New Mission !!
I have got to win something this month, building a new house, and want to do some IOT to do... c'mon!!!
Not sure if anyone else agrees but the orange text on green background in the questions table is a little difficult to see. I do know that the theme of the website includes those colors so I understand why they were used.
Rah, Raggy, re reed ro re rareful ris ronth! Rose retwork randridth randits ran re reary rasty! Rooby, Rooby Roo!
Zoinks! Like, where'd they hide the Scooby Snacks?!
Oh thank god! I needed something to do...
Oh dear . . . just when I was being weaned away from spending so much time on Thwack . . .
Thank you for letting us know!
Like the smart home prizes. Just built a new house and trying to make it smart in every way possible. Got the Nest Thermostat and getting their video doorbell soon. Now just need the camera to go with it!
LOL bandwidth shortage is out of control!!!!!!
This exactly what we need at our company. We have NTA but not using it. I don't think the network team knows how to use it.
Yep loving it, i have the ring doorbell that works with the fire stick, Tado thermostat, Hue lights, harmony Hub. Then I got two echo dots for Christmas
So would love the camera and some more lights
Happy New Year to everyone
First question of the new year. I'm still at 100%!
NO... just no. Scrappy Doo is the blurst!
If you don't win you could always DIY all the IoT: Instructables IoT
Sorry about that! I chose fashion over function for this one.
It's the same headers we use every month: weekly prizes, Monday - Friday, & names of the winners.
Let the games begin
The Scooby Doo theme song is fun to play on the guitar!
Scooby Doo Where Are You ?
Intro : A Bm E repeat three times
A Bm
Scooby dooby do, where are you
E A
We got some work to do now
We need some help from you now
Come on scooby doo, I see you
Pretending you got the sliver
But you are not fooling me, cause I can see
The way you shake and sliver
D
You know we got a mistery to solve
A
So scooby doo be ready for your act
G A
Don`t hold back
And Scooby doo if you come through
A5 D D# E E5 F#5 G#5
You`re going to have yourself a Scooby snack
That`s fact
Scooby dooby doo, here are you
You`re ready and you`re willing
If we can count on you Scooby doo
I know you`ll catch that villain
D A G G# A D D# E
A……..a……..a………., A…….a……..a……….a………
Copy write to those that have it!
For educational purposes only.
RT
I decided to go with Google Home as I got a new Vizio TV that uses Chromecast and going with Chamberlain Wi-Fi garage doors. I have not had a lot of time to get it all going. Been living out of boxes and working on getting organized before getting it all going.
I have the Bandwidth Pack but am too new at this to know which Application Summary you mean exactly... is there an example or a few more tips on how to get there?
Wow, NTA rocks! It's not hard to use. Just configured up the devices to send the netflow data to the Solarwinds server and it does the rest
Ok. I must have never noticed then. Thanks for the reply!
I still get a kick out of your new avatar every time I see it Radioteacher!
Down in Texas Bandwitdth Hogs are getting so bad even the dogs are freaking out!
A plague of Pigs in Texas! A Plague of Pigs in Texas | Science | Smithsonian
Some of the hunting dogs like this one wear kevlar vests!!!
A plague of hogs is just about understated...
I have seen a 3 acre site next to camp destroyed(rooted up) overnight...
Yeah it really sounds like it's getting out of control and is worse every year.
There’s a saying common to hunters and academics, landowners and government officials—just about anyone in the Southwest: “There’s two kinds of people: those that have wild pigs and those that will have wild pigs.”
the problem has existed for 20 years I know of....
It sounds like they are very very smart animals. Much smarter than say deer.
I think it's more breeding rate than anything else (although they are smart). They can litter twice a year with anywhere from 1 to a dozen offspring. They also reach (breeding) maturity at about a year with some sows reaching it well before - at 3 to 4 months. That makes for a breeding machine that's very difficult to keep up with.
Deer gestation, for example, is about twice as long (200 days compared to about 114) and produces far less offspring (1 to 3). Pigs also do a lot more damage as they're rooters rather than browsers/grazers. So on the annoyance scale pigs win hands down. On the tasty scale, however, it's a tie.
I kinda liked my old "gang sign" SW one but it had been around too long. The current one is nice and positive.
I had my front yard tore up a few years ago by hogs and I live in the 7th largest city in the US.
List of United States cities by population - Wikipedia
I am wondering this as well.
Years ago what the problem was rearing its head, farmers and ranchers would pay hunters to take the hogs.
Then they decided to let the hunters hunt them for free..
Then they realized there was a market so they started making people pay to hunt them...
Hi Keith, I went ahead and updated the colors, let me know if it's easier to read now.
I thought there were some deer outfitters that made you shoot a hog before you could shoot a deer. Not sure, though. But yeah, if you want 'em gone don't charge folks. In most states they're a nuisance animal so there's no season or bag limit. It's really unfortunate that so many landowners have monetized hunting, though. Regular folks can't just get permission and go anymore. It's down to leasing the hunting rights (just like oil and timber). Sad.
Now back to your regularly scheduled mission. Ask yourself, what would Velma and Daphne do? WWVD&D?
I liked that one too!!!
I live in the 5th largest and look both the 5th and 7th have gained many people... look at the cities that have lost the most people. Seems like high taxes and worsening business environment is making people relocate.
Wild Hogs are Chased From a Corn Field - YouTube
Who knew?
https://youtu.be/JeGyVrcS9eo?t=13
that's the original color schema
mmm, wild hog; But yeah... it's a tough choice against some good venison steaks.
I see what you did there...
Acquaintances from Texas have told me that wild pork tastes far superior to farm-raised. I can't comment from experience, but I did get to taste the difference between raised in a free range and table scraps environment, and indoor grain-fed pork. The outdoor-raised pork tasted much better than the corn-fed indoor penned-up-forever.
Looks like my copy and paste skills are weak. Good catch.
Rock on!
One of our former supervisors really knew how to engage her people. Every day, she gave them "hugs and Scooby Snacks!". This was a tightly-knit group in a remote location, so don't go raising the "Hostile Work Environment" flag: you'd have to know this person, which I do, to fully appreciate her management style. It's sad, really, that we have gotten to the point in our society where acts of kindness and empathy are taken to HR and the media as "Sexual Harassment", even years later. Viva Lake Woebegone!
Isn't that just the opposite with beef, the caged forever and massaged daily Kobe' beef and others are considered the best in the world.
Naw . . . I just suspect the content put out there for you to use was not spell-checked before it made it to you. Always blame the publisher.
Lol that's funny there were a LOT of them in that little area!
Happy New Year!
Has anyone received the 1000 point for last year/month survey?
I completed the survey but don't see points yet:)
I completely agree! Now you can have your career ruined just for hitting on the wrong person.
I had trouble trying to get the video to play today... when I clicked on it it says "No compatible source was found for this media." This was in IE... I just tried firefox and it worked. So if this also happens to you try firefox.
Chrome 63.0.3239.132 also works. I'm happy to see a CC option with a time-coded hint (not that it's really needed this time). Pretty sweet.
Same issue with IE. BTW, wabbott, I downloaded the trial of BAP and wanted to submit the screenshot requested in the "Mission Shortcut". I presume that by "Application Summary Page", you are referring to the "Orion Summary Home"...or are you? Just want to make sure I get the screenshot you are looking for.
Video is not working for me in Chrome, Firefox, or IE. It's a hat trick, I can go home for the day!
"Cones of Shame" ought to be mandatory everywhere when there are this kind of problem caused by a user.
Today's "correct" answer is not valid in my deployment, since we don't allow Solarwinds to have RW snmp permission. But the options that would make today's correct answer correct in my environment can be seen--they're just grayed out.
Today's is a conditional answer, depending on your security needs & your NCM/NPM deployment.
While the line 'Pretending you got A sliver', needed a correction and is grammatically correct. The correct Lyric for the next line, "You know we got a Mysterie(y) to Solve..." is grammatically incorrect because the conjunction "We've" is not used in that line.
... so bad grammar can be a a 'thing' when it comes to music/lyrics/rhyme/etc. Either from dialect/regional/personal preference or just the idea that an elongated/extra word or conjunction is just too much to sing or say. That line speeds up and if we've was originally written, it was shortened so Austin Roberts could catch his breath to get the rest out audibly. Just one musician's thoughts.
Sometimes, rschroeder, as you mentioned, one cannot help oneself...CANI (Constant and Never-ending Improvement)
the * indicates optional lyrics. The "That's the fact!" lyric was added in later seasons of the Scooby Doo Mysteries. Man, am I an introvert or what! ;-)
I love the advice to use CC for those of us sometimes in a noisy environment
Hadn't thought about that - I've just been cranking the volume on my headphones!
rschroeder, is there a particular reason that you do not allow SW to have RW on SNMP? If so, can you share what it is? Just curious about the methodology used there and if it might be applicable to others' environments.
Hi Alex (& anyone else who is confused by the mission shortcut), this is how you get to the "app summary":
Example from online demo: http://oriondemo.solarwinds.com/Orion/TrafficAnalysis/SummaryView.aspx?viewkey=NetFlow%20Applications%20Summary
It's a security issue and a trust issue. I'm enough of a control freak that I don't want to risk RW credentials being exposed and used without permission. If there are no RW permissions on any equipment, then I don't worry about someone being able to do something inappropriate via those credentials.
We've have some great outside auditors come in and try to hack our network. These White Hats are paid to do their best to find holes and show how they could have been exploited. My Network Team's received good marks from them, every time. In part because we follow best practices and strive to achieve compliance in many realms, and in part because snmp is limited to RO.
There are ways to further secure RW, I realize. Creating ACLs on every device that define source addresses that can issue RW snmp commands. Using RADIUS and TACACS to further refine the security capabilities and requirements of RW string users.
But staff levels & training and project tasks don't allow for the additional expense and time for training and reconfiguration of all our devices.
Back in the day, we had no RADIUS, no TACACS, and anyone with access to an snmp tool could have exploited RW powers all too easily.
So I made the decision to not put RW snmp creds on anything about fourteen years ago. And amazingly, we get along without RW quite nicely. There's nothing RW can do for us that we would not rather do more granularly on our own--SO FAR! I'm open-minded enough to realize that there may be security requirements and cases where time is of the essence, and RW snmp strings could serve some needs.
But the commands which RW can accomplish can also be done via NCM as it executes scripts, and THAT has full TACACS AAA going for it--which snmp does not.
;^)
If you can't see the video, it may be time to update your browser.
Although I think you can guess the correct answer to Q3 without the video.
If you think you need to see the video to find the right answer, after reviewing the available answers . . . well . . . uh . . .
That makes it more clearer!! I was wondering what "Application Summary" has to do with Bandwidth Analyzer pack. So, you want "NetFlow Application Summary", not "Application Summary" (which is a SAM page).
I like Q3. It really suited my mood
Well to be honest, one should always use caution just in case it is a trick.
Gee, you're right - remember the good old days with mandatory 'hugs'?
Absurd.
I don't use RW snmp creds on my devices either. It's just not the way to manage these devices and unless it's snmpv3 it's just not a good idea having plaintext RW community strings floating around the intranet.
Q4 wasn't too bad! Even the URL gives you a huge hint!
True, yes, the other "answers" were, um, pretty obvious. And, Wendy, the problems were only with IE 11 that I saw...Chrome and Firefox were reported to work just fine with the video.
Thanks for the reply, rschroeder! I appreciate the insight.
True that!
Thanks for the clarification. But we have not used NTA yet so the page is pretty much blank. I will submit it and see if I get the points.
gundamunit1, I was in the same boat until I realized that I had to configure NetFlow on my test router. This Cisco article got me up and running fairly quickly: NetFlow Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS Release 15M&T - Getting Started with Configuring Cisco IOS NetFlow and NetFlow Da… Hopefully this helps...
Wow, great weekly prizes and monthly prize, I'd be happy to win any of those
All green for this week.
Good luck everyone
Tell the devs... bring on the Palo Alto and Sourcefire/Firepower support!!!!
Palo Alto.
I preferred Scrappy to Scooby Dumb...he was the blurstestest, if I understand the meaning of the expletive. Then there was Lula Doo...Scooby's mom. Interesting that there is nothing on the Intarwebs about Lula...is it just me or does anyone else remember her? Please, tell me I'm not going crazy!!! Doh, too late! :-P
I don't see anything about Scooby's mom being called Lula. Just Mumsy and Dada doo. Huh, maybe it's the Mandela Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo_(character)
Anyone else having problems with the demo? The watch list is just spinning and never loads.
On a DoD network, I can't access it either.
Not loading the data here either
Changing to Chrome worked for me
Loving this new mission!!! And the prizes are even better.
No seatbelts? Ridiculous!
Kobe Beef - YouTube
Well, that would be the reason there is nothing on the Web about Lula. I swear I was not on anything back then...and I'm from Colorado!!!
rschroeder wrote:But the commands which RW can accomplish can also be done via NCM as it executes scripts, and THAT has full TACACS AAA going for it--which snmp does not.
rschroeder wrote:
I totally agree with you there - I have never given Orion RW SNMP in any of the environment I've worked as NCM does the job, unless there is a specific need, and I can't think of one that would make me change the entire estate.
Back when I was the only guy with access to an NMS, and the network I'd built and supported wasn't one in the 7x24 Critical Health Care realm, I leveraged the NMS's ability to make my life more efficient through R/W permission.
Now that more people have access to my current Solarwinds NMS, and now that even enabling or disabling a port can mean a major impact to a business or clinic or hospital, I want the full AAA incident tracking log of what happens to switch, router, or firewall.
TACACS provides that for us, no matter whether we issue the commands to the device directly, or whether we have NCM do it with a service account.
NPM with SNMP can leverage parts of AAA, but it doesn't provide what our documentation and Change Management and Incident Control solutions require.
If I were back in the earlier environment, where I was the only guy supporting 14,000 users at 33 geographic sites, on a network I designed and built and installed, I'd be comfortable enabling Read/Write SNMP-v3 with NPM. Perhaps I'm just too much of a security / control person, but in that environment I could rely on myself to not make mistakes, and not try to cover them up through an NMS. Here in Health Care, though, I want every one of my team using processes and protocols that are fully logged and fully transparent. It prevents "cowboy networking" (see James T. Kirk's "Cowboy Diplomacy"), and helps ensure everyone knows what anyone else is doing on the network.
NCM's Real-Time Change Detection can be part of that solution, too, but we've tried it and found it doesn't meet our needs as well as the combination of NCM's Daily Change Reports and AAA's TACACS logs.
We really appreciate some of the guidance on where to start looking in long docs as well like for today's question. It helps a LOT. Thanks everyone!
Hear, hear! As much as I'd like to read the whole document (and intend to) I don't always have time in the morning to invest in that manner.
Control F is your friend
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