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I am in agreement with you Jfrazier! Need for both exists and will until something better comes along, but the adoption will be a long time coming, if at all. SNMP has been around for 40+ years and has it's good and bad points. I like what SW has done with their products and incorporating all of the players, SNMP,…

">bspencer63 Aug 14, 2015 11:27 AM Leon, What a question.... "What "are" you in the world of IT??" I am a Network Engineer at the core but evolving into the world of security specialization. I am also a College Professor teaching everything from hardware and software to Networking and Security. I have been branching out…

I agree on the descriptions... they are never kept up! Constantly evolving and when you think you are caught up and all is perfect, think again! I was out for 4 months once and noone kept anything up and now it is all back to groud zero and it makes it hard to even want to recreate when you are the only one that cares!…

VNQM and Riverbed SteelCentral, (formerly Cascade Express) for Netflow aggregation & Application Monitoring, and Alerting. Does constant Wireshark Caps for replay and analysis including VoIP using Pilot. Very nice tool integration!

Leon, Why would you ever jump on any Microsoft bandwagon, EVER? I bet you bought into BetaMax too! Always enjoy your views and reflections! BSpencer

I had a student once who asked me, "Why won't my computer boot up anymore?". Seems innocuous at the onset, but after a few questions I found out that he had limited disk space so he started deleting files based upon their creation and used last date. Do you see where this is going? It was Win95 and he deleted the ini and…

I agree that without a standard, there can be no compliance. My main issue within most of the organizations I have worked with is not the standards, but the compliance! How to get the team to do what they are supposed to before making a resource accessible???? Drive Lettering, Drive naming conventions, device naming…

There are a lot of people and companies that agree with that train of thought tcbene, "Connect Everything!" Scares the bejesus out of me what could be done with all of that information!!! http://www.wired.com/2014/08/everything-hyper-connected-internet-things/

BAM! This month's mission was kinda fun! Definitely in the hunt here too!

Multiple answers are needed to correctly answer some questions, but I am seeing radio buttons that only allow one answer. Anyone else get this happening?

Nope! Better try again!

mrs.alterego, Thanks to you and the SW team for getting this done and making it a more "user friendly" experience! Been on here for a bit and to have my posts moderated, because of my name, in addition to content was a bit "over-the-top". But we understand what you all had to go through and all of the hard work invested to…

Just another point, since logs can be extremely superfluous... LEM affords the ability to filter out "noise" events from Windows and other devices. This will ease the pain in reviewing the logs without having to touch all of the devices that are already configured and sending everything. (informational or debugging) I…

Agree completely with all of these points!

Finally used the new Thwack Store and I have to reiterate what all are saying, "Great Job!". This is so much better and user friendly! Thanks!

Great set of questions and definitely would help streamline and organize monitoring and alerting, if, one can get the answers to the questions. I am sometimes stuck making the decision and sending the alert to the party I feel should be responsible. When your team is not responsive, oh boy! SNMP vs WMI? To monitor or to…

Excellent work!

Ran across this one and had to share.... Chronicles of George Too funny!

NCM is the easiest to deploy and configure I have run into in 20+ years. Even if you have a device that must be setup, the scripting is very simple and easy to config. Configuration comparisons are an easy way to keep from downloading configs that haven't changed. Alerting is setup to notify me when any change is found,…

Been there, done that!

NPM for scanning subnets for new nodes/devices (never trust your team members/etc to keep you in the loop), NCM for off-device config storage and comparisons nightly, and Real-Time config change alerts using SNMP-TRAPs, gives me a pretty good view of not only what is in my Network, but also if anything has been changed…

Did someone say Pi? Yum, Apple please!

Great points Leon! I'm about on the same page as network defender on this one as our LAN/WAN will not be moving from IPv4 to IPv6 for a while. #1 & #4 are ongoing and must be tuned and managed properly to ensure people do not get numbed or inundated by alerts and then ignore them or filter them out! #3 is my pet peeve and…

Mrs. Y, Not sure if you will find and EASY to manage system, maybe an easier to manage system is more a possibility. I went through the drudgery and endless calls from many of the major vendors to find the fit for us here and the system is pretty easy to setup and takes a bit of configuration and monitoring, but the…

@ Q5, I already have them all because I use SW products! 

Always ready to lend a helping hand! Done!

Not a big thing, just funny! To me at least...

The other contingent upon activity being current and factual for SNMP/SNMP-TRAPs is that they are UDP based and thus not guaranteed delivery. Totally agree with the integration and it appears that there is a possibility of this moving forward as it is on the "Road Map". Unfortunately, nothing on the "Road Map" is…

byrona, Are you including and evaluating any MSP's at all for SIEM? Even an option? BSpencer

DanielleH, It's yesterday's tomorrow! I'm sure kevincrouch4 is waiting on the answer you promised him! Just saying... B