jgherbert

Sorry, I meant to come back to that (because a large CWND doesn't help much if the RWND of the remote end is tiny)... Thank you for sharing and raising the issue.

Cool, a second mention for SecretServer here. Maybe I should also go back and re-investigate the trial I saw and find out more about the issues at that time.

I like that. We have done something similar, with 5 minutes polls a standard, and 1 minute polls enabled for Tier 1 dependencies. It sounds like you've got things well organized there, and you're focusing your polling resources where they're needed. Nice one!

Perhaps. Eventually something has to stick, and manufacturers will have to suck it up and support it.

The issue of "lowest common denominator" versus "vendor-specific requirements" is one of the main areas that OpenConfig was trying to address, by creating a standardized framework for the LCD stuff while also allowing vendors to extend the model to permit the vendor-specific configurations to be incorporated. Choosing a…

On a related note, IOS used to only return the first 32 chars of an interface description when requested via SNMP. Useful knowledge when you're figuring out where to put the important information in the description...!

Leadership in many cases expects magic fairy dust and a level of intuition and predictive skills that would make you a billionaire if you turned your attention to the stock market.

Yes, this is very true; everybody wants to run their own specialist tools, and it's very hard to get the tools talking so you can do smart things with them!

Interesting idea. Of course, one always faces the issue of how the AP will discover the IP for those corporate controllers; that's the ZTD challenge! Nonetheless, that's a neat approach to the problem. If it's any consolation, in the UK certain telcos used to steal ISDN service from you and hook in other customers in your…

That's kind of weird isn't it? I hope at least he got something out of the tools he wrote!

Agreed on the agent monitoring, which is invaluable on servers. I was trying to think whether any of the network vendors allow that kind of monitoring to take place, and I couldn't think of one off the top of my head. Or maybe they do and I just don't recognize it. Do you know of any?

Security should be paramount regardless of the transport / protocol, just like it is today with VTY access.

I have a fondness for text-based data files probably stemming from years of Perl scripting, and so that's my default go-to. The time spent figuring out a proper (i.e. Codd's rules) relational database schema which I can then start implementing is usually time I could have spent coding an actual solution. Structurally, to…

Yes! We had a similar issue with VMWare recently; the way the VNIC on a particular VM had been configured was not the most efficient way, and it was having a noticeable impact on transfers for a time-sensitive app running on that VM. Any time virtualization comes into the picture things get more complex for sure. It's not…

Sorry if I was ambiguous above when talking about the "first" variable, but yes, that's what I was referring to. In the equation $y = $a + $b, $b will be interpreted as the same type as $a. I simply chose to redefine the variables the other way around rather than changing to $y = $b + $a (which may have illustrated my…

I have a horrible feeling that you are correct about that.

Truth; a good description (and you show a nice way to encode information) can make a world of difference. Now let's level up: Which apps are using Oracle as their backend, and are thus impacted? Which of those are 24h, and which are not? Who else might therefore need to be notified?

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I favor that kind myself also

I did debate including C/C++, but the levels of pain that would inflict... I mean, wow. :-)

How easy is it to access the archived data and make sense of it? For example, if the data is split into monthly archives, are you somehow able to measure data trends over 12 months and thus (perhaps) look ahead and predict exhaustion? How do you view the archived data - do you use a separate installation and point it at…

I live a very lonely life.

Definitely. Even if you end up abandoning the tool for some reason, the work you put into it will inevitably benefit you when you start writing the next tool. I suspect that scripters/coders, like everybody else, probably look back on things they wrote even a year ago and think "Ugh... what was I ​thinking​?!"

As always sir, a well thought through and interesting response. Thanks for all you contribute to Thwack through your comments! "When you discount session state, aren't you also leading us down the path of IPv6 and losing PAT/NAT capabilities?" Well, keeping a translation table for PAT/NAT is something that IOS (for…

I have been around a Secret Server trial in the past, but I'm not sure it was entirely successful (and I say that not least because it didn't seem to ever be launched there). I just recall hearing a lot of cursing, but that could I suppose have been user issues rather than software failures.

Another vote for SS acknowledged! Thanks for sharing, jserota‌!

*laughs* Well, you still have to configure DHCP, so it's not perfect... but at least that's centralized management, not per-device.

I have this worrying feeling that you are not joking...

Can I add a third category to that? 1. Those who code 2. Those who script 3. Those who can't/don't/wont I am firmly in category #2; I do not wish to spend all day every day staring at a text editor and developing an enhanced case of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury). I think therefore there's a compromise position between 1…

Jfrazier‌ I had a feeling that you would have some good insight into this topic. I confess I quietly suppressed the "spin my own solution" option, although the way you did it sounds relatively simple compared to some other approaches I could think of. Out of curiosity, was there a technical or functional reason you did not…