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don't forget that even in the case of a virtual fire, you still have mop up, salvage and overhaul. This means even after the big fire is out, you have to go through things thoroughly to make sure there are no hidden embers or smoldering issues. The comes the salvage and overhaul where you save what you can and protect what…

Good points here. Had a boss that wasn't comfortable to sending people off for training or even conferences because he claimed it was an avenue for them to find new jobs... or some the lack of being sent off for training prodded them into finding new jobs.

that way it is a bit more anonymous and keeps things somewhat more confidential.

As hinted, yes they can be...especially general consumer routers where the end user has not changed the default password.

Another thing to watch with your high cpu utilization is the processor queue. If there are things queued up to get processor time and it banging away at 100% or close to it, then you may need more resources. Keeping long term cpu utilization data can be troublesome especially in a virtual environment where you can add and…

VAX 11/780 both operations and assembly. Never liked the opcode "Byte Relative"

It is the same pain and concerns every shop has...especially with some of the new dev-ops mix being thrown in. You can potentially spin up environments so quickly the network can't adapt fast enough....

Tough choice...

Ah...so it isn't the webinar we are looking for.....yet.

check this.... https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/2655 The topic is Calendars....it's not just for outages anymore.

I would agree the "single pane of glass" perspective and one tool to manage everything (aka a suite) is pretty much over hyped sales speak because in practice it doesn't work. Every shop is different in their mix of technologies and requirements. Most of the suites are a compromise to bundle many things under one umbrella.…

ROFLMAO !! Thanks DanielleH​ !

Phishing and social engineering are the 2 biggest things to the untrained person for any company or federal entity.

I think in some instances companies go that way to reduce head count...that way they just dictate what they want and let the solutions provider have all the headache.

the Windows CLI being more of a shell environment is better than it was. While you don't have many native choices other than powershell or a variant of the original command prompt, maybe someday there will be a c shell or Korn shell equivalent. D-link...well I think they earned that one. The debit card robber, well you…

I agree that social engineering is a big risk that is hard to mitigate. But when you have a large company with a large number of pc's that can connect to the internet, you are open to malware and other nepherious things that may or may not be caught by anti-virus software. We have a team that is responsible for such…

Aix while not are largest unix system implementation has some of the more important services on them to include MQ queues and Oracle databases. This agent would potentially help us quite a bit from syslog based monitoring to better filesystem monitors (mounted/unmounted, samba shares, utilization thresholds, etc.) The…

Documentation only works if 1) it is written down. 2) it is published where others can get to it when needed. 3) it is 3 AM friendly. 4) others know it exists. 5) others can get to it. 6) people actually refer to it. 7) it is kept up to date.

yes....Yes we do !

I'd one more item to the naming convention...a criticality indicator. 1 for critical path 2 for important 3 for supporting role We have a lot of this built into custom properties which is great for the Orion environment but that data is not there for other automation tools that run outside of Orion.

The potential for cloud hosted databases and other apps to be left open to the wild world web is just too great. Just wait for shadow IT to rear it's ugly head in this manner.

okay, before even starting on the included topics the conference badge shrine is quite impressive.

That was always a goto for me as well.

It's like a crack dealer...the first one is on me.

Glad to hear you had a good time in Dubai. The things you must do as a Head Geek !!

nifty.....government data in the cloud, what could go wrong ??

read access does not you you into that role...read access could be to perform a query as part of SAM monitor. So you are safe for now.

We are investigating using splunk to watch for certain events in various event logs and then forward them to orion in order to generate alerts and help provide input to some component monitors. Our biggest pain is some event logs have very unique names that change throughout the day depending on how often they roll due to…

Need to add ARM (application response measurement) so you can see what transactions (at the application level) are doing so you can really see if your tuning or changes are helping.

interesting...