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

There were some April MS patches that also were really slowing peoples computers down I think I read somewhere... considering how serious some of the patches were I suppose it is what it is?

For me it started when I was just a wee wee child in California. It was ages of 1-4 years old and in learning to read with mom's help my favorite book was the original "The Way Things Work." The next HUGE breakthrough for me was getting an Apple ][+ computer when I was 12! This changed everything especially after getting a…

Yep definitely didn't work I was about to move up a level today and should have :^} I'm 76 points short of Level 25.

I've been reading Zero Day lately... I love Mark Russinovich and all of his tools he made! The sysinternals are awesome and now his wininternals tools are part of MS DaRT toolkit!

I always like the API stuff!

It's actually much older than that! I learned a lot about it working for Toyota Motor Manufacturing NA for three years. It's called Kaizen: Kaizen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia TPS or the Toyota Production System is actually very interesting... I learned a lot at Toyota besides doing IT and network engineering: Toyota…

THWACKCAMP 2016 is ON!!!!!!!!!!!!! My solution to the NFL is NFL Sunday Ticket MAX... run it on any device! Not free of course but it's the bomb!

I feel exactly the same about Apple... between the not helping the FBI with known terrorists and years of using other peoples new ideas and calling them Apple inventions... Just like before I won't be sad to see Apple start to fade. My first PC was an Apple ][+ with RF modulator hooked to color TV and no floppy (they…

Sometimes automation can go very very wrong too... like a bad ACL or route pushed to all your devices in NCM for example o.O

Yes but you've gotta admit that when there is a storage problem... the effects can be really really bad.

I've had issues with deadlocks from database but show up in Commvault backup software jobs. Sometimes problems like these can be tough to find root cause for. Query tuning is also an art not always a science. Bill

These tools are finally starting to mature. I agree with containers argument. It's nice to have services that are completely isolated from each other. We do a lot of what you're talking about on our own cloud but are only testing workloads for AWS or Azure for possible future integration due to the security requirements we…

It's one of the smartest things I've done recently. Saves me soooo much time! I still have it but uninstalled the apps and if I do ever check I use chrome version only... all of those alerts were just making it worse before.

It's a real challenge and sometimes gets monotonous but it's for a good cause and I enjoy learning about white hat / black hat security! New tools are being developed to help with the process as well. I will say that RMF (Risk Management Framework) is going to cause a lot more paperwork, time, and resources to comply with.

Missed you all I was on vacation for a couple weeks from work!!! First time all last year! Nice to see you again. Bill

Yeah but I had some stuck NCM reports this week... it turned out it was the database datastore running out of storage for Orion. Side effect all my NCM compliance reports were failing to run. A little cleanup and some storage vMotion will fix that!

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The ones that won are in the next round this week! I think at least...

And I found out a new trick from support as well... if you create a realtime filter in the regular area you can then open it up in the new HTML5 interface and from there you can change the timeframe on the filter... BAM just like that it's not only realtime now!

We're doing Palo Alto for a lots of big f/w's, we have many of the new ASA-X as well. In addition the new routers can run the Cisco IPDS module inside their ISR WAN routers which is what we're also doing. Every one of our WAN routers will have built in IPDS reporting to Firesite! After the NPM ASA functionality goes live…

Yes we've been using for a long time since long time as vCOps. We're are experimenting with the rest of vCloud suite as well. Back when vmware had a deal to allow upgrading your licenses to vCloud suite for cheap we upgraded all of our licenses. We like the no limit on VM's and not having to license each tool anymore by…

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@"zennifer" is right getting to really good alerting is work but worth it.

Thank Goodness for Solarwinds!

Hopefully now that ASA Insight is ready to roll out we'll maybe get some Palo Alto support?

I've had no troubles this mission so far. A few you needed to be careful with though. Bill

There is a mib so you could create a UnDP for it... http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/AX_Documentation_CD_v2_4_3-20100621/AX_Documentation_CD_v2_4_3-20100621/AX_MIB_Ref_v2… With less popular hardware this had always been my solution.

Wow that's amazing Maria!

Insider threat is a big focus in the DoD right now with the RMF aka Risk Management Framework coming. We're all holding our breath waiting to what all it's going to mean o.O!

We're in the middle of switching from Remedy onsite to Service Now in the "cloud." Everything seems to be "cloud" now. Not sure how I feel about it since our IT budget about doubled. Bill