aaron.j.denning · Cyber Security Specialist

good stuff here we use the 80/20 rule as well.

awesome article

Great Info keep it coming.

I've been on both sides being the main admin and then being a local admin getting tracked by "big brother" you could say. the biggest thing i went through was being able to do everything to being stuck not really having many rights never really worried about being tracked.

not much here on our DB's going virtual will have to book mark this though to see where it goes im sure we are going to do it soon just haven't seen it yet.

that site is pretty awesome even if i dont win im going to sign up they have a free account got a few certs on there i wouldnt mind having

no hint on question 12?

Great discussion

We use Internal Wikis and if you want any kind of cert just have to get with our payroll people and the company will put up the bill *as long as you pass*.

great article cant wait to read more.

30 days at most just depends on what it is.

we monitor for both availability and reachable because like it says you can have one but not the other so your not at 100%

We use SCCM and Cloning software to build and rebuild servers and a ticketing system to do the monitoring if we notice its not monitored we just add it ourselves. and i wish we had a decommissioning process.

i agree with u1976turn and that most of my questions are things i haven't seen yet or already answered going hmmm wonder if this is on Thwack!. and thanks arjantim will have to look at some of those books just to learn as much as possible about storage and network managment.

Thwack is a great place to get new avenues to look down or just get general help if your stumped and like me everyone's been really helpful because this is the first time i've ever used Solarwinds and the entire board has helped out and dealt with all my dumb and very new to the world questions.

Thanks mfmahler its been great reading your post awesome work.

Jfrazier that is what we do try to lock down as much as possible. it works for the most part that and if our security team sees you with a device that's not on your property pass it gets taken until you leave for the day and they will walk you out to your car and then hand it to you..

Agree with Webbster dont know alot about VM or Storage but wanting to get into that realm just to have that up my sleeve as a "we need help with" and kinda step in like superman and be like i can do that.

Done and Done.

* Which database application is mostly used within your environment (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, etc)? SQL and MySQL * Do you have a team and/or a person dedicated solely as a DBA, monitoring performance and analyzing databases? Or is this left to the infrastructure teams to take care of? We have DBA's, Monitoring and…

will have to work that angle thanks

good read have to keep them one around.

Are you more concerned about actionable IT metrics and not concerned with the business impact? For me it all depends on who im talking to if its one of the techy nerds then no but if its a manager i will because i know the business is there main look. What are the metrics that matter to you?uptime, downtime, apps outage,…

we use workflows sort of we have them but no one really follows them.

Are you measuring end-user experience on mobile devices? No but the way technology is going we will sooner than later Do you feel mobile application performance monitoring is a different discipline than web performance monitoring? yes due the the changes that are a constant. Do you correlate issues between your mobile web…

these last three have been amazing and very insightful cant wait to read more.

usually we see something at a conference or a new product that comes out and we as engineers will read up about it and if it seems like it can help we will do a free demo of it for a few weeks to see how things are with it. if it seems it will work our manager well do all the monetary things and take it up the chain..…

we have it broke into two parts myself as a network monitoring guy have eyes on VNQM but our telephony group has eyes on nam's

Data is great to have but if you dont have the tools and smarts to go along with it then your screwed anyways.

cisco does the bulk of this for us but we use VNQM to monitor the VoIP