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Exactly right, rschroeder​! In addition to a 3 ring binder for anyone in our IT department to access, I started keeping an electronic copy on a flash drive I kept with me as well. That certainly helped out and made me feel better.

I have not found Ajax in the data center yet. Actually, I hope I never do.

I feel your pain on the IT Budget response too. Our budget request was cut by 50%. I will be loosing a few things or falling behind this year I think.

We pretty much only have 2 here. Comcast Xfinity cable internet or Century Link DSL. Even if you package this with satellite or cell service, the internet is provided by one of these 2.

I do agree with not making hundreds of copies of production data. And ideally dummy data is what dev should be using in their riskier environment. I still think it might be a good idea to audit those environments since we know that these things can or are happening.

And BAM! I found a whole mess of ghost interfaces to go through. Easier than the old way, but I would like your suggestion to get implemented.

On the other hand, maybe this should be mandatory for all politicians so we can see past the double talk and lies to know what they are really up to.

Or like our organization where it was MS or nothing due to tight budgets and bean counters that can't see the ROI.

It seems like the media rushes to be first and not fact checking, along with some opinions thrown it at times to try to sway people.

Most of my certifications are now out of date. I did complete all my CompTIA certs before they went the re-certify every few years model, so maybe those are still active? When I was laid off and unemployed, needing to change careers, I went to a tech school that taught all the courses for MCSE. I had the MCSA and all but…

Right apply crowbar test to all payment terminals. Got it! On a side note, in a previous electronics career, I used to repair card payment terminals among other things. The smaller square ones like at the grocery checkout or at restaurants. That was a lot of years ago, but really if they wanted to years ago, they just…

There was someone that called into a local radio station today talking about this and that their private company had to ask a number of people to leave their facility. Apparently there were a number of people sitting in their stairwell because somehow their private property was showing up as a Pokemon gym.

Hmmm, all of my production switches are in NPM via SNMP already, but they don't show up in AppStack.

I don't have a real wish list this year. I could get by with little or nothing for a change this year.

Ouch. And we have been chasing slowness problems and just ran that a week ago to try and speed the website up. I have not had complaints yet.

There have been rumors of this password update requirement being forced by security here, even for service accounts. This is needed. Edit: I should add AD synced accounts so we don't have to update in SolarWinds at all would be valuable. Security could force the password updates like they want to and hopefully have no…

About the 2nd week I started this current job, I went through SolarWinds and deleted all those types of interfaces. Now I manually make sure they don't get imported when new devices are added. This type of interface being disabled by default would be even better.

That almost sounds manageable compared to this environment.

Umm, that has already happened here in Minneapolis in 2007. I-35W, a major freeway through the city, across the Mississippi River. I-35W Mississippi River bridge - Wikipedia

I can definitely see doing this for remote sites.

Yes, get that backhoe in the right spot and you are right, you could take them all down.

My room faced away from the square, so that was fine. Being in walking distance to Radio City Music hall, several theaters, the Intrepid Air and Space museum and even Rockefeller Center allowed us to see quite a bit in that area. Then we took the subway to places like Coney Island, the Twin Towers museum site, and bus…

I can usually deal with those grayed out ports be deleting those interfaces and re-running list resources. It is a manual process and would be nice to be more automated. I found recently that it isn't just old ports that are not cleaned up. Recently, our teams switched out an HP Procurve switch with a new Cisco switch…

I agree this could be improved. I tend to use the Message Center rather than Events since it has some filtering and a search feature. Events doesn't have search, but you can enable only events and then do a search in Message Center. But even that could have improved filtering, maybe with multiple levels of filtering.

So IT security is denying us access to the IT security answer?

How do you find these after they are set? For my example, we have some with the new Maintenance Mode "Mute Now" set, but don't really have a way to find them again later in the sea of nodes in our system. I am sure something is set in the database, but how can we do a Report of Search for it? I can see the "Unmanaged" node…

12 steps or infinite life cycle of 12 steps?

Product familiarity ruled here for me as well. I didn't need today's hint.

I used to have a manager that would jump in and help with intern/work study tasks. Every college semester when we would re-image all the classroom PCs, we would gather anyone that was available and do the simple task of verifying the image process, clicking next when necessary. Several of us not usually involved in the…

I just read that it AMD is starting to get hit with these lawsuits for Spectre as well. Three Class-Action Lawsuits Target AMD Over Spectre Vulnerability