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If done right can be like your own adventure novel...just plays out differently each time.

That is assuming that your backup team is watching the logs for errors related to backups and acting on those errors. I have had to rebuild a server because the backup team did not deal with error messages and we were unable to restore a server at one point. These days it seems that shops only do incremental backups so it…

We are starting to use Splunk for non-windows log files. It handles large files with ease and you can use regular expressions to do searching across windows or unix based OS's. It scales well and allows various groups to utilize the data without having to have rights on the server. We have been doing this with powershell…

that could be a full time job in itself depending on the size of your shop and how much change goes on...

"China watches the NSA. It is difficult to not turn this to a political tirade. Over sight is a tricky business to be in. Where does the transparency really need to be and who are those sighting the injustices accountable to." Kind of like the cold war all over again....

They are marketing to a Silo. A single pane of glass to the group that will be managing the tool/environment. Thus it may not play well with others. In the end, it is all about marketing and making money. You want all the detailed info ? Gotta buy our tool to see and use it. IBM/Tivoli is real bad about this. Many other…

Depending on where my team is at I'll go either way. Sometimes you need an experienced person when expansion/projects pop up and you need headcount that can hit the ground running. All in all very good points here.

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Congrats to ciscolangirl !!

Looks like this is gonna be a fun one...

Now if they would make something with peanut butter or almonds using the good dark chocolate that is full of the antioxidants we'd be further along.

The free piston engine still exists... Toyota develops high-efficiency 'free piston' no-crankshaft combustion engine... to power an EV - ExtremeTech In the wiki Free-piston engine - Wikipedia it eludes that the idea was worked on back inthe 1930's. The Wankel rotary engine was another that had some technical issues but was…

Looks like it...now to keep all three documents separate.... Don't cross the streams !!

The answer for todays mission question is out there. Need to head to the HG's profile and search pasta. It takes some looking but the answer is there.

As scott.driver​ mentioned it is a mashed up URL of 2 seperate URL's. If you go to the "resources" URL Webcast Resources – SolarWinds you are prompted to fill out a form for a free download in order to get to the video...

sometimes you need to dig deeper...usually that happens once per mission if you look back over time. There have been a couple of missions where you had to dig deeper on 2 or more questions that month. 

Pretty simple, use the provided resource to start with. The info for correct answer was provided there..

Looking forward to this series.

A new attack vector these days is to use an email address to send a link to a pdf on a google drive to your phone via SMS. Being it may appear to be a name instead of a phone number some may open it and click the link without being suspicious. Being it came from an email address your phone can't block it as it can a…

ecklerwr1​, it seems one of the perks of being a head geek is the awesome t-shirt collection !!

Proxy Pollers...

Get with the recipients of the alerts and start a regular conversation to point out the "noise" and tweak those to not be as noisy or suppress totally. After a few iterations of this the noise will be reducing...it is an ongoing task that needs to be reviewed on regular basis as new events pop onto the radar and the…

the link @"gcp" provided: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/archive/pdf/ARM/ARM_2020-2_Release_Notes.pdf has the correct info for todays question.

Friday post lunch carb overload pre-weekend bump !

Hmm... ROI - Return On Investment. For example, in a past life I was looking at a piece of software (SDK perl plugin for HP Openview) to help me build out a large map of remote sites and put each object in a specific bucket that represented a state here in the US. I broke it down to how much time it took to build each…

this is the stuff that keeps the IT security folks up at night...

As rschroeder​ was talking about concerning the data mountain expected...when other teams come back a week or 3 later and want all the details around a 24 0r even 6 hour period when a problem they recently discovered began you no longer have details since everything is aggregated up. So as you spin up all these micro…

So as I channel @"meech", if you were to have a hover pop-up window event, what would you expect to see? Back to myself, as I hover over each item, I'd like to see the device referenced (similar to the example given above) as well as a name and a link to the server the device is on that opens up a new tab or pop-up window…

points get added after the entire mission is completed..usually about a week later.

Brilliant !