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Morning #bumpsquad​ bump !

Closest thing I have had to an extended period of recreation or time spent away from home/work, or traveling were 2 day drives to drop daughters off at college, see sons graduation from basic training, recovering from surgery (twice for 2 weeks+). I need to go on a 2 week fishing/hunting trip so bad so I can get…

still working on my half pot of brew from my morning drive...bump !

Congrats to rileymat​ !

As most everybody has said, Standards are a must !! Consistency across all of the enterprise makes everybodys job easier. This even applies to something as simple as interfacing naming standards on switches to allow for standardized alerting so it scales. Of course the challenge becomes enforcing the standards when things…

A plague of hogs is just about understated... I have seen a 3 acre site next to camp destroyed(rooted up) overnight...

We also had code review...it was the reviewers responsibility it adhered to all the coding standards...including comments/documentation in the code. It worked really well.

And that is where networking (human interaction) shines. Thwack is like the collective...many minds working on similar issues from different perspectives. This provides a whole lot of brain power to help solve issues. Former co-workers and user groups are also great resources.

The more the learn the more you become aware of that you don't know....

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Still open for voting. Still needed for many. Bump!!! #bumpsquad​

Friday bump !! #bumpsquad​

One way would be to build a comparable local database, load both up with a chunk of data and run the same queries against each and note any time differences. Or to be cruel, set up a solarwinds instance that pointed to the cloud based DB and load everything that your prod orion database has and see how it performs… That…

When I was taking a programming class, I am thinking it was that Pascal class, they had too many students for the system we were using. I was using a borrowed Franklin pc which was a clone of the Apple 2 with a 1200 baud modem so I didn't have to fight the computer labs...one day the response time was so bad it took 2-5…

Interesting stuff... I wonder how the office 365 groups would work for a family type of arrangement. It looks like it could have possibilities. With kids in college needing software tools, this may be affordable and practical.

That is why we are doing the Splunk thing.... But for NPM and SAM we gotta have a data warehouse. We are growing so fast and need the long term detail data for planning and to see how we have done.

We had a drone operating in an official capacity shot at. It changed SOP's to have the camera on at all times during flight. Such that it would now be handled as a criminal offense and the person(s) arrested. Some of the new FLIR technology is AMAZING ! The small FLIR cameras about the size of a roll of quarters blows the…

Regarding the fitbit and Steva...many smartphones will act like the fitbit and with their embedded GPS/Cell tower triangulation can provide the same data....as well as all the phone apps in the newer vehicles with built in cell technology and GPS....in the end it is all this "smart" technology that is providing others with…

I would think that is appropriate as well...hopefully it is encrypted at rest so the backups are effectively encrypted. Federal databases are encrypted at rest aren't they ? If not they should be just like everyone else.

IoT is certainly the wild west of the internet. This is just one example of why IoT can be a very bad thing...

Orion in itself is a CMDB of sorts...while it can be a subset of the corporate CMDB (federated CMDB) I am not sure I would use it exclusively for that since they change their schema from time to time.

It should be an improvement over what they have....provided they do it right.

Interesting... I see the biggest challenges being in larger shops with separation of duties, high visibility, high presure, growth, etc. Suites of products may or may not cover everything and to what extent varies. Every department has their own pain points regarding what needs to be monitored and how. Since every group…

cobrien​, you have the simpler approach now... Maybe a newbie wizard for the simple stuff. The feature request is to allow those needing a more advanced bit of logic to determine if and when an alert/notification needs to go out has options to build much more complex constructs. Many products out there have 2 or more ways…

agreed...both are tools in the toolbox.

Actually the pascal class I had was on a VAX 11-780, was just using the franklin to dial into the university so I didn't have to sit in a noisy computer lab. The volume of students using the machine was greater than it was spec'd for so it was constantly overloaded.

Is that like "binge on - binge off" ?

I wasn't aware streetlights were smart...much less had cameras. Similar in nature to the mission creep of the ring doorbells that consumers are not fully aware of. Seems that all good ideas/technology is also used against you in some way.

Good post.. It really mirrors what we face out here...but in the end, IT is IT is IT. We all have the same basic challenges, The federal level has more beginning with the fact that they work at the speed of Government...thus some changes are less likely to happen on a more timely basis.

akiebach​, agreed. At least from the IT side, most all of the IT folks "should" be able to create a ticket and assign it to the proper group. It is the people that believe it is beneath them to do such work that have to call it in that wastes everyones time. I know quite a few on the business side that are pretty ticket…