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Correctly answer all 20 questions by February 4 and get entered to win the Grand Prize! Nest Cam Indoor Security Camera
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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
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