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So I have done this a couple times in the past. Firewalls are a big issue. Are you going through firewalls? should be on the checklist. If you are, then border controllers and gatekeepers are probably needed assets. Another is are you connecting to other call managers and gatekeepers? Who manages them? What is your dial…

Very awesome idea!

This is a fun one. We need to clarify it... Who would win? or Who do you like?

maria.bungau So when I got my gear, I put it on. My wife asked what I was wearing and why. My son was outside playing basketball. I waited for him to come in. When he did, he asked what I had on. I asked him why he was coming inside already and that I was getting ready to come out there with him. My wife and son didn't…

I am sure it was. There is usually no one size fits all approach when dealing with multiple sites and WAN links. It should be a site by site basis, of course based on site surveys (flow collection data and montoring VoIP P+Ps is a good idea for "real" data) and the "high end" needs of the site with at least room for 25%…

That is funny. And it is all so true

Are you measuring end-user experience on mobile devices? Not yet, but If I were serving up something to the internet for others to see or use, I definitely would be. It is a MUST in today's mobile world. Do you feel mobile application performance monitoring is a different discipline than web performance monitoring? Yes, I…

User training, user training and more user training

I typed "I completed". Wrong Answer! I got the

Are you more concerned about actionable IT metrics and not concerned with the business impact? I am concerned about both of them equally. Actionable IT metrics have a direct impact on business and vise versa. Downtime has a cost. Latency has an actual cost. What are the metrics that matter to you? Metrics that matter to me…

good article. There is more than a few uses for social media. Although I unfortunately use it, I am not a big fan of it.

I completely agree. I want to see this in action.

Congrats everyone!

I will do this!

Sounds like you are teasing us maria.bungau lol. 

Loaded question, but I would say the people, then the technology, then the process. I am sure others would disagree and I expect them too. I just feel that the people need to build the technology, then the process. I would say really that it should be people, technology, people, process and then repeat.

11. Get rid of stupid users

If only this would translate to the Government sectors sooner rather than later. Security roadblocks are in abundance there.

Very good information. Thanks for this info! Luckily I am not the one doing the patching of Linux machines.

Even Cisco will give you products for your production environment to install for periods of time. I have done that multiple times. We aren't even asking for hardware. Just limited licensing for development purposes. Especially since a lot of us are heavily invested in SolarWinds.

I used to manage a NOSC and I definitely developed and had to use workflows all the time, especially for upper management briefings.

very good read.

I'm in the same boat as you familyofcrowes. Our upgrades go through multiple environments before it hits production.

We are constantly being to to beware of this and beware of that. We also do interactive annual training for this. They try to stay on top of this where I work.

This is a pretty cool rollup

There is a difference between network management tools and network monitoring tools. The collection and analyzing should be done by the monitoring tools. The actual work, or automated tasks or backups, should be done by the management tools. A lot of the time, they are one and the same. For example, as far as SolarWinds…

How would I use this to set a password if the 'set password' command issued, replied with "Enter a password:" the first time and "Confirm the password:" after that. I want to use my Cisco Password SNMPv3 Change NCM Template to change passwords for the Cisco UCS devices. To do this, the prompt will change from "UCS_Device#"…

Legos too. Lol

Awesome! Thanks a lot! I will be using.

Very good post. I will definitely be using this.