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I believe unexpected exponential growth (which can never be fully accounted or planned for) is the nail in the coffin for many things be it retail or IT and at the same time both. There are other disruptive activities due to this app. People wandering around with their heads buried into the app on their phone not paying…

exactly...

So I guess my idea of taking a night at a Holiday Inn Express won't work.... Good points everyone !

Thanks wluther​

I am also not a QoS or VoIP guy. I know QoS is set up here since we have a large amount of voice traffic to coincide with data. This is all handled by the network team...so it's out of sight but not forgotten as I know it's there. I like the thought of queuing TCP and UDP seperately. I'll need to research that more....

That is one of the points I was trying to make... I just didn't say it as well as you did as I was trying to get several aspects of it across.

It was pretty simple today... Probably just a teaser for next week on the last 5.

Learning is one of those great things...I have always felt that the day I stop learning is pretty much the day I die or I am on the short road in that direction. A college based degree is great with some caveats. The student usually doesn't know anything beyond basic concepts and limited application of those concepts or…

Congrats to nathanjlichtenstein​ !

Tuesday #bumpsquad​ bump !

The big win with WPM is it gives you the view of your application availability because you are watching the service and not the individual components. It allows you to track your SLA's or at least define and monitor them for the business based on service availability. In todays world of highly available applications (load…

LIke cahunt‌ our NMS doesn't handle all FCAPS functions. While we are working towards a single pane of glass, we have the need for point solutions that are bette geared towards specific items that a suite product cannot handle.

some people take hobbies too seriously....

There is not a working link to todays hint.

There is another aspect of the "push" model. An autonomous agent that monitors locally and pushes events up to the management server. It is usually configured to watch for a specific set of things and only send those up. Usually they can run scripts locally and monitor syslog as well. By having it close to the source, you…

Separation of Duty as well as restricting access to certain log data depending on content would also be good business cases for this.

I heartily agree data is power. I've learned to include data with every request in the form of a business justification and ROI. Granted it may be rather simple statement like "I know the training budget is low at the moment but we do have a need for more knowledge on advanced SQL queries. I was thinking in the short term…

The problem with a single pane of glass is that it is a laminate..more than one pane just in layers.

No problem.... we all need a visit from the devils advocate from time to time to remain honest

I think the option of being able to use an agent where practical is the big win here. Orion doesn't do unix as well as windows..and it doesn't manage things in the DMZ well either. Of course you can go the route of a polled agent like nagios, but having an actual agent that does most of the work at the source significantly…

Honestly I do not have an answer since I don't have any experience first hand on the differences/pros/cons of each. But on that note, it seems everywhere I have worked is has been application based replication.

Thanks mikegale​, I'll need to read up on that. 

Interesting...I know these days full regression testing if difficult if not impossible. I agree that the security folks need to be coders as well. For at least testing a standard set (that evolves over time) of standards. This helps to ensure a baseline is maintained. The fun part is when new tests are built to be part of…

may not be who dies but rather what is the least legally liable route to take...

As you mentioned open lines of communication and documented procedures for adding/removing resources go a long way to keeping things up to date. I understand the growth issues and every team wanting to monitor their own world....I have never seen that work well for a large company unless there is a set of guidelines such…

Just think...we are the generation that made those tough in the weeds black magic looking procedures and knowledge look easy. But then we also paved the way for the modern plug and play world where things are easy(ier). The current generation hasn't had to worry about IRQ's, separate controller cards for hard drives, types…

Honestly this all sounds like re-badging existing terms and technologies into a new theng in order to generate a "new market".

We use a combination of all three. While we are looking at moving to Shavlik for some environments, we primarily use WSUS. Some servers are on a manual patch list, for example our Orion servers, so we know when they are being patched and rebooted. That way we schedule it during the day when the respective teams are in to…

...and the mission begins!

If you go from the point of view of the article you get one answer, but I believe it was intended to be taken as all in past tense so you will have a different answer.