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Our network team used to use NCM, I am not sure what they are using today. In a past life, the company I worked for used NCM to backup all the configs for the network gear as well. I agree with your assessment of components...one of the weakest is the configuration change management portion. Unless a shop is strict about…

Used cars and safety.. They were obviously focused on sales for all the new gadgetry and toys for people to become distracted by while driving and not the full lifecycle of a car which could be a single owner or many before it meets the great crusher in the sky.

bummer missed out on the last day since I was off Friday and spent the weekend working on my EMT class.

A good agent will have store and forward capability so that is a link is down, monitoring data is not lost. In the current configuration if an intermediate network device is down...all polling data for a node is lost during that period of time leaving gaps in your data....

Hot diggity !!

likewise....

Bitter ? You ? No way !

Holy Sea Cows Batman !!

Those points are valid and something many companies face. Logging of pertinent data only helps in the troubleshooting process by leaving or reducing the "noise". Thus filtering of normal events will leave the "abnormal" stuff. Logging levels are also important...it is a balancing act between volume of data versus detail.…

it is not just for a career in IT. It is for any career. I find myself challenged just as much to learn in the fire service as well as the world of IT. My motto is that the day I stop learning is the day I die...

Old Hallows eve monday morning caffeine deprived bump !!

Like ITIL, find the ones that align with your business/shop and go with them. Some will take adoption and cultural time to put into place...stick with it.

Another great list of weekly items to browse away from the office.

That is why my facebook info will never show there...and I don't do twitter.

This reminds me of file locking/resource contention on the mainframes with regards to batch jobs. You could see similar issues although you would get a message on the console if the job was coded properly to wait, cancel, or try again. Usually the job scheduler or the run sheets would prevent running at the same time or at…

zennifer​, if you are going to give me a run for the money you are setting your sites a little low , not sure I am the best role model, but you have to start somewhere like the rest of us. Maybe when you get your bobblehead I will get mine.... 

Thanks for the bump. Please also look and vote up at my Data Warehouse idea: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/2637

But that also opens companies up for ideas and enhancements being "stolen" or leaked. Either way, full regression testing of todays uber complicated software tools is beyond the capabilities of most companies. That's just for the normal bugs...er features.

I have received and replied to two different (content wise) customer reference requests.

Friday end of week Bump !!

But....but...but !?!

My father in law recently had to replace his entire battery pack in his prius...although it is older than yours. I believe he spent more than $1800 though. But over all it has been a good vehicle for them.

Hopefully it is not a train headed your way....

I have been in a environment where the customer put one over on the sales person and got some insane SLA's. We wanted to fire the customer but couldn't. They were eating our lunch.

3D printing of aircraft structural parts...yet another step of SCI-Fi into reality...fabbers. The fact that they are already printing nozzles for turbine engines shows how far it has come along.

Thanks for the vote up ktuter​ !

Apple and Amazon both have similar heavy handed techniques to bring vendors into their fold in such a way that they maximize their profits before the vendor does.

I agree on the brogrammers..especially those just out of school that "know everything".. They still need a few years in a real shop to learn how to apply the concepts they learned. They need to spend the first few years supporting the "buggy code" to appreciate and hopefully change the environment to well documented,…

don't you know it....

Been there, done that. I do find many times they (the customer) doesn't know what they want. They have an idea but what they convey or assume is not what they are thinking. Which boils down to perspective. They say they want X and Y...but not conveying that in order for that to be Z and A, B, F must also be within a…