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I like your opening statement. Some of the challenges I have personally seen with the 'best of breed' approach is companies under estimate and then under staff the areas needed to get the most use out of a 'best of breed' tool. That tool ends up being someones hobby instead of their job. The tool ends up several versions…

Lord of the Rings characters as server names

What are YOUR useless superpowers?

Some environments are becoming so complex that virtually any change made can affect anything downstream and then the system as a whole becomes less stable. Take in case our 'old school' Solarwinds system used to use physical servers with self contained disk and a dedicated SQL server. For years the only time it went down…

These are great!

Thanks for the write up . "they can actually automate themselves into a job " Very true, spending more and more time automating items that used to be done manually so we can move on to the next thing.

I would love to get DPA. I used it at my last job but they had purchased it before Solarwinds bought them out. I got a cost for it at my new job and it is very expensive for the number of databases we have. I do own SAM so on the simplest of monitoring I do set up what I call a database 'ping' (get database name) and test…

Last time I shipped a box to Venezuela it was a 12 inch square box that weighed <1 pound. $400 US dollars to ship.

""Apple Reportedly Blocked Police iPhone Hacking Tool and Nobody Knows How" I found an alternate method very effective at permanently locking my phone - older Iphone + water. Last time I was in Jamaica I took mine swimming in what was supposed to be a waterproof case, well it wasn't and the phone was toast.

People still watch network TV?

Thanks! Saved a bunch of time

Thanks for the write up.

I recently sat in with one of our Service Desk Professionals and was amazed at the amount of talent these people have!

One Ancient Commodore Amiga Runs the Heat and AC for 19 Public Schools

My Cyber wish list this year is to have my shopping complete prior to Thanksgiving and the goal is to do 100% online shopping. 

Nice write up. Thanks!

We need to support integration of alerts from a wide variety of tools into our single pane of glass. Some of the tools only support email for alerts and email is the easiest way to receive some alerts because they need to come from out on the internet and make it through our firewalls. If the Orion Alerting engine could…

Great series! Thanks for all the effort you put into writing this up.

I answered yesterdays question but its showing locked today, anyone else getting this?

There are plenty of forums you can participate in online. Also, our lobby has plenty of tech magazines always available so I don't mind browsing through them to see whats new. Also like the read up on all of the ones that are specific to healthcare and not specifically technology. A lot of times you can find a lot of…

All they had to work with 100 years ago was math, on a chalk board. Amazing that they could figure out what they did.

Great write up! "because it will be a pleasant conversation for a change" made me laugh!

Great mission this month!

Looking forward to this one!

This worked in my environment. I think the AND and NOT needs to be capitols. Status=2 AND Caption NOT Like '%servername%'

I used to support a product that got rebranded every year. It became a joke after several years as we just kept adding the new name onto the end of the old name whenever calling into support.

Just finished class today and this was brought up. Apparently it was done this way due to licensing issues with Google. $$$$

I set up monitoring in a network with over 35,000 nodes and was able to get everything onto 2 'panes of glass' using Solarwinds, Kiwi and some fairly simple swsql commands and 1 custom dashboard. All of the alerts and resets generated by Solarwinds were sent via Syslog to a Kiwi Web Console in the NOC. Those are the ones…

Thanks for the write up! One thing you can count on in IT is change!

I left a company after 28 years because they started 'writing my story' for me. Never have regretted it My biggest career advice is find a job you like and then do your absolute best at it. You will find yourself getting promoted over and over again. If that isn't happening then its time to move on to another place.