boblon

We have an IoT strategy being developed. That's the good news. However, I work on a government installation that has the need to be open with various outside agencies and educational institutions, as well as the ability to have temporary visitors located on site (sometimes for months) that need to have access to the…

Years ago our department had a VAX 11/780 computer room. It had a Britton Lee database, large physical old style top load canister hard drive platter stacks and a reel-to-reel tape drive back up cabinet. I worked second shift and volunteered to act as part time computer operator for them. This included running the nightly…

I wish... The database would not be so quick to do things I really didn't want to do and much faster at doing things I really need done. That users would be quicker to call when the first issue arises and much slower at making a bad situation worse.

I work on the network side of the house and desktop services has always been handled by another organization where I work. Years ago we had a female desktop field rep that would call once a week or so to say she was working a customers issue related to the 'network being slow'. Apparently at some point their was a problem…

Dear Network, I know you have enjoyed that easy peaceful feeling that comes from existing as one homogenous being, letting everyone co-mingle and communicate freely without regard for pace, creds or point of origin. It's not that we don't want everyone to get along together and enjoy the freedom to explore you Network, but…

Add me to the list of those disappointed in the way that the 'hint' to Q16 was handled. I too got it wrong BobL.

I agree that yes, mistakes will be made. Even with the best laid plans. One thing I've learned is that when mistakes happen, own it. I can't tell you how many times over the last 35+ years I've seen people try to hide their mistakes. Run around like crazy trying to frantically figure out what went wrong, trying to pretend…

Did they get the point accumulation thingy fixed? Answered correctly a few minutes ago but seems to not be adding the points.

Wow, cool. Thanks everyone BobL.

Never mind, it just updated. Ditto here, Poll Results You voted on Jun 22, 2016 But question shows not complete.

Happy Birthday. I think over the past several years that Thwack really has grown into more of a 'community' than ever before. Keep up the good work.

Thanks tor the reliability of the network packet transmission and the speed at which you do it no matter how loosely we follow your preferred cabling best practices. Thanks to the DHCP servers for always doing your job so well not matter how many times your are tried to be blamed for things you did not do. Thanks to our SW…

Denny, That would be a big step forward. The current method of accounting for post outage exclusions from the availability reports is cumbersome at the least. It requires manually adding and editing a 'Complex Condition' and up to 5 'Elementary Conditions' into report writer to exclude a single specific node for a specific…

Hey Denny, I am actually just starting development on this idea, I can keep you informed as to my progress if you like. It's actually fairly simple in concept however it is going to be more complicated in practice due to the way things are done at my location. Basically, I am trying to come up with a solution to doing…

I did decide to move the db first. It went pretty well. Am removeing SQL from the NPM box now and then will proceed up the upgrade ladder. Thanks, BobL.

Right now we are running SQL 2008 on a MS 2008 r2 platform. We do log all messages to SQL for the ability to search them. We have ordered another KIWI license so we can do some load sharing. I have arranged the rules so the heavy hitters are at the top of the list and every rule does have a 'stop' line at the end. I am…

Thanks for the response. I had assumed that but it's good to hear. BobL.

Thanks, I missed that one. I set the main WebSite Connection Timeout, but missed the ASP Script Timeout Setting. Unfortunately, that did not help :( BobL.

Ok thanks. And yes, the v9.5.1 and the v10.1.3 each have they're own SQL server. BobL.

Great news, thanks for the input. I am trying to come with an easy way to allow our Network Ops folks to easily account for Outage exclusions after the fact. I've got several ideas, but the most direct approach would be to add a table (or two) to Orion and use it to manipulate a custom availablity report. Right now I'm…

Great, thanks for the info. BobL.

Ok great. Thanks, BobL.

Ok, maybe it is the version, more specifically the added wireless features. Looking at the tables I saw this: I am assuming the '.._WL_..' refers to wireless. BobL.

You should also include the stop processing rule to prevent the messages already logged from being processed by all the filters below that one.

We just got our new EE Toolset version in. I have looked through the docs. I have ALWAYS wanted the ability to use the tools via a scripting language or batch file, including the ability to pass parameters to the tool and collect the output. I was told that it was possible even with the old set but could never get any help…

Of course, just having posted my question I had a thought. My guess would be it is when I 'Apply' settings. Sorry for the bother BobL.

We use both NPM and NCM. With NPM we have created a few different dashboards for sets of users and collect stats for SLA metrics. NCM is used for config backups mainly.

I started out as a missile radar tech in the NAVY. Got out in '79 and thought computers (very new then) were cool but could not afford one. So, I took a correspondence course using my VA benefits. The course was the "Master Course in MicroComputers" and the project, and the reason I took the course was because they sent…

We send our syslogs to a SQL server. More than that, we send to different tables based on the syslog facility we have assigned to our various gear by groups (Routers, Switches, UPS, etc). Under each rule that separates this traffic is a call to a script that updates a message counter for a customstats assigned to that…