ecklerwr1 · Sr. Network / Systems Architect · ✭✭✭✭✭

It is kinda a pain when the maps resize.

Happy Pi day!!!

I suppose it would depend on how much slower it is but I don't see why you couldn't have a global search.

You got side tracked Peter!!!

Today's question was pretty straight forward!

Two factor authentication on top of whatever method you use with an audit trail is pretty rock solid I'd say. If you are good with review of logs and SIEM you're even in better shape! We have the full blown splunk and I gotta say... it's not going to do much out of the box for you... for windows event logging I've used GFI…

We're currently in a status that encrypted data at rest has to be applied on new purchases only... like for example if we buy a new NAS we have to have drive encryption as part of it.

I agree with both you and Richard on this. It's hard to actually test and simulate a disaster.

DPI on physical interfaces takes some major horsepower... especially on 10G ports. I suppose if the whole thing happened in virtual world it might be possible. I'm not familiar with any all VM DPI??? I'm sure there is some.

@"Jfrazier" Yeah I've been using Remedy since it was a text based screen application and the company was only 12 people... suffice it to say it's gotten a LOT bigger. It's a nightmare every time they do upgrades and we always have a test environment version running first before they do the upgrade for everyone to see if…

Monitoring storage can be tricky.

Would be great if article would explain which SolarWinds tools can be used to what with the STIGs. I know NCM has STIG templates for network hardware. SEM can help with the monitoring aspect of the STIGs. Bill

We're hoping to move some unclassified workloads to the cloud possibly. It's tough due to all the requirements around security but I think some workloads are being rethought to possibly be ok.

Lololol! Those pesky lawyers just won't let anyone give any dates!

I hope it's version 9.

I'm in the same boat abynum... as busy as I am I'm sure it'd be much worse without the Orion toolset!

Yes in addition to the HP/Aruba wireless and clearpass we also have the Palo Alto on one side of two businesses that came together. All Cisco on one side and Cisco plus core Palo Alto on the other. The only concern I have about the Palo Alto that may be unfounded is not a lot of defense in depth when you have one giant…

It was great seeing you and everyone in Orlando this year at Live and at the SWUG. I especially liked talking to Patrick about some old SolarWinds history. It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about the direction we're headed in with this ACI and DNA Center. We had come up with a refresh architecture recently and…

We use excel with data exported monthly from solarwinds... it works... not really totally automated but we can see how things change over time... primarily circuit utlization. Lolol I just looked up I guess the bump made me type almost the same exact thing AGAIN!

I was busy on Friday and when I went to check the end of the month thing the link was broken... I'll live though. I didn't click the I did the the quiz because I hadn't yet. Oh well, some of us have to work during the day. I missed one on Thursday anyhow. Nice wins!

Just think anything MS Office related today applies...

Wow back from Cisco Live and had to catch up a little!

Project Photon is awesome... slimmed down linux dedicated to running containers on VMware. This can all run and move in and out of AWS if you want. This is pretty huge I think. The huge plus of AWS is they have the entire VMware suite of tools already setup already installed and ready to just use. Check out the online labs…

Those apples look pretty good! When I lived in Ohio years ago we had a couple apple trees in the backyard. The only downside was when they fell off the tree then were all over the ground... it made mowing the yard a little bumpy to say the least.

Scott's been around a while... but dang twice!

We're finally putting money into tools we need. It's helped a lot.

I get it... nothing is free. AppInsight is really neat all the stuff it shows you but comes at a cost. (not a minor one either) But the info it collects is pretty low level so I thinks that's probably to be expected. I mean it even times how long statements take to run... I'll look into DPA.

I often goto Randy F. Smith's website Randy Franklin Smith's Ultimate Windows Security as it's one of the best websites about windows event logging. He has a Windows Security Log quick reference guide and sends out monthly summary after each patch tuesday to your email inbox! Microsoft also has some new updated docs:…

I like the name... Knights of Vigilance