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I have learned that in our environment, there are a number of stackable switches that are not actually stacked. We learned this the hard way when a stack alert went off for a switch with no stack members. On those switches, I found the message that phillipscc​ displayed. Right now, my trouble is finding those switches in…

Not that I know of currently.

Same here. I wonder why the country changed by itself? 

The interface descriptions in ours now are descriptions to the site or site router specifically. I don't think I could convince them to change that.

I am also interested in any documentation. I seem to recall it mentioned in the video that there would be at some point.

I have no idea what the right answer is here. There are too many possibilities. lol

I have a few scary incidents to recite. Major Campus Power Outage. Running campus from large semi truck generators that kept running out of fuel. The power was run from these generators for a couple of months or so. It was before my time at this place, but a scary tale never the less. they never knew when the power would…

The components loaded with a certain amount of smoke in them from the manufacturer was an electronics tech mainstay when I was in that career. Some components only have a little smoke, but if it lost any, they didn't work. Other components like many capacitors have a LOT of smoke and almost explode when it lets out. Paper…

Or very good software compression.

My NPM used to have working charts like you are describing. Both at the node level and interface level. I just noticed most of the charts are now sitting a "Data is not available" state for some reason. Now I have to figure out why that is. Last time I opened a similar support ticket, it was due to changes in old style vs…

We have some devices that our network folk say can't point to more than one poller. There is also one set of devices the owners don't want to open firewalls to more than one poller. This is the vast minority of our devices though. This feature should include the ability to lock down some devices to specific pollers or sets…

I don't really take selfies, but I do have a couple of pictures of the courtyard fountain at Rockefeller Center from our June 2015 trip. We stayed in a hotel half a block off of Times Square. It was an interesting trip.

I was always a big fan of keeping the old IP Address for the same reasons. At my last place, with not having a data warehouse, we exported configs to text files that were zipped up and stored on the network for 1-2 years in case we wanted to go back to see something. Then some of the historical data was still in…

It seems I am out of part 2. I don't have access to any of the supported Cisco router images in GNS3. We don't use any of those router models.

I found these active maps don't take into account signal strength from APs on other floors either. Manual measurement of signal strength on a middle floor was always way different than these maps would show. The client location wasn't accurate for us either as it was only updated on intervals. In our case, we had to slow…

I personally love teamwork and collaboration. So much brainstorming and so many good ideas come out of different perspectives. But you do have to have the time, team willingness and support for it.

I might be able to get an software for our 4510R+E chassis router, but that is the only router model we have on this campus and the only router software I can access in the Cisco portal. This is more than sufficient for our community college routing needs. Ah, well. 

Looking at internet business trends, would the end of Net Neutrality kill IoT? Would those businesses tolerate that without protest? I can imagine protests from businesses that have cost increases due to cloud services and internet usage for business purposes, but IoT and other internet innovation businesses? How would…

The closest I have been able to come to this is monitoring the interface going out to the WAN with NPM. It might be nice to be able to get that interface metric in Network Atlas and on the map we display in NPM. Now I just have an icon for that interface on the map. It doesn't look like the other link lines, but it works.

I have seen a lot of these 5 steps as well. I try to guide people to step 5, but sometimes it seems they have to see the fallout from the other steps first before they will work to get to step 5.

It is sort of 2 choices here really. Cable internet from Comcast or DSL from Century Link. There are some small 3rd party vendors in the Minneapolis/St Paul area that mainly or only serve businesses, but they lease lines or bandwidth over these bigger vendors.

In my last job we had the situation once where a department purchased a cloud service but didn't tell IT until something went wrong. Then of course we were expected to fix it. We had no access at all to start with. Then we found out this service was storing non-public (aka personal) student information and we had no idea…

How would read/write response time compare to an on-site implementation? How many potential bottlenecks are there in the path? Internet speed, disk speed on the cloud host, etc. Would you move your database for your larger deployments of SolarWinds to a cloud based database? Would it respond fast enough? It might be…

I installed this version to get the fix for the Workspace SNMPv3 credential save issue and it works. However, i was a bit surprised that the authentication only supported MD5 and SHA-1 and not the same authentication that HCO/NPM support. Our firewall team moved to SHA256 for their Cisco ASA and Checkpoint devices and…

Just having the direct CDP type information is useful for a number of things. Parent/Child relationships, building maps, etc. I had a UnDP showing this on my old job. It would be nice if this was built in.

There once was a network packet. He thought he would go on a trip. He put on his jacket. He thought he was hip. But the destination wouldn't ACK it.

I had something very similar set up, but it was tripping multiple times a day and our team said it wasn't really what they wanted. They really want that % and whether or not it is sustained over time. So we have a start, just need to figure out the rest.

Perhaps, but if I were taking security that far, breaking in the inner door would set off alarms that call the police. As it is now, my doors are alarmed. Just have the alarm on the inside door.

Do you have to wear special RFID blocking gloves when not working so some scammer doesn't scan your chip and misuse it like they were doing with early credit card chips? 

On one of the upgrades, yes. I had manually entered serial numbers and asset tag numbers for inventory reference. But those disappeared. I have not gone back and re-added them yet. I don't know if they would stick or if I would be wasting my time. I do think it was one of the upgrade that modified or rebuilt the database.…