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I think I remember seeing a drawing of that in an article somewhere. It seemed like it was basically putting your entire house on a UPS backup. I think it was an article discussing tying that in with Elon's solar roof shingles.

I had a Technical Writing class in the 1980's. It was great for learning how to document, especially for procedures. I used it heavily in my last job and got lots of compliments for how clear the documentation was.

I have seen the same thing happen in other games. They hold as special in-game event and suddenly all the servers are overloaded. Did this company learn from the event and plan better for the next? Well, not for the next several event. Even now a 2 years later the servers have trouble during the events. Some is code…

I would think I picked the right answer. I did not pick any answer with SD or sundial in it but it marked me wrong about sundial. Not so sure this question is set up right.

@"wluther" I do think building this whole new instance is the best thing in our situation, and support has been helpful with the temp licensing. It has just dragged out. I have to maintain changes in both systems until we can switch over. Maybe some might find the path for this amusing, cringe, or be happy they can just…

We have that field available on our instance, but no one but me uses it. It might be better if it was there in the mute/unmanage selection, where it is right in the face of the person doing the unmanage. They still might not use it, but it might help without searching our BMC Remedy instance for change requests, incidents,…

I have another one. You know that fast Road Runner looking one out on the freeway so the distracted drivers and pedestrians can compete chasing it.

SolarWinds: NPM, NCM, SAM, NTM, Engineers Toolset Others: Cisco Prime Infrastructure (wireless) SCCM SCOM (coming soon) HP Web JetAdmin & PaperCut (Printers) vSphere (VMWare) VMM Hyper-V Manager (in process of migrating away from VMWare due to cost savings) UCS Manager Wireshark

Before everything started moving to the web interface, I had build several execute scripts in the NCM console that I could easily upload to any switch for our standard settings like: Several security settings like console and tty settings, ssh, management vlan ACLs, password encryption, logging as well as QoS settings and…

I have trouble with remote site dependencies on the other side of layer 3. I have to do all of those manually. We have tons of remote sites. I have used groups for the children on remote sites in some cases, but not all yet. I was recently asked if we could make our BGP routes children of routers. The idea was to not show…

+1 on not wanting more marketing emails @"Jfrazier" Thanks for that tip.

This would be a big benefit. I like the idea of adding this to the resource view. I currently add SWQL macros to my alert triggers and alert message for this. This does help.

I do use an alert to tell me when the system detects a machine type change, but it sometimes misses changes, like the HP to Cisco switch change I mentioned. It also misses some Cisco to Cisco model changes, but does better with those.

For the Amazon Key idea, here is where I wish my home had and entryway with lockable doors on both sides, like my grandparents old house. They only had a guest coat rack and boot tray in it, so it was empty most of the time. I could easily see using this tech in that situation. I am a bit more leery about it in my current…

I can see the possibility though. If your primary advertisers are the pharmacorps and there is a big news incident with them, would your want to say much bad about them and risk losing the advertising $$? Or would you try to 'soften the blow' by slanting the news some, maybe to take the severity off of an event?

We have the same problem where I work. The same restrictions, but for additional reasons of this being government.

This is an interesting way to think of D&D and IT. I once was DM for a group that when they worked together as a team could destroy any enemy I threw at them. But when they didn't have that teamwork going, the lowest level enemy could kick their behinds. And now that you have mentioned the parallel, I have seen this in IT…

Yes, I would love that "EASY BUTTON" here. I thought about using a custom property on all the interesting interfaces if they wouldn't change the descriptions. Right now, that is like 94 WAN interfaces going to one customer. That isn't very dynamic, but would get the job done. Using a chart instead of table is closer to…

I kind of agree with this. I am looking at the AppStack for our SQL server and see everything but the network layer. There is no direct way in that view to show my DBA that the network run to his server isn't sluggish or has high utilization. This could get complicated in a virtual environment. My DBA might point fingers…

Nice!

I asked our network group here about them before deleting them. They were not 'interesting' interfaces for them. Things could change over time, and they may change their minds, but until they do, it was nice to get those out of the system.

I would still like this to become a built in feature. We have a small handful of stack switches where the master is running at 90-99%, but won't trip the built in average CPU load alert due to the other switches in the stack averaging down the CPU load to like 30%. Due to recent instability with our Orion instance, we have…

The auto-populate the name bit for use depends on there being a DNS entry for the device. Otherwise the name doesn't populate. But otherwise, when we do network scans, it is generally by only supplying the IP Address. We only do csv uploads to mass import custom properties.

I don't have custom HTML in my deployment. But I have seen when a management IP is reused, sometimes, not all times, it doesn't properly update all the node information unless it is deleted and re-added. For example, out LAN team swapped out an old HP switch with a Cisco switch. Even after forcing a rediscover and poll…

I am there.

We have been struggling with the same thing as @unitof and @jessmwku with an alerting link on the web server. The default link tries to go to the main poller and just fails. For now, we just send them to the main alerts page and not the exact alert due to the link not working.

My gaming group scattered across the country years ago before any of these options were available. I kind of wish this technology had existed at the time. As a result, I have not recently looked for another gaming group and have mostly stuck to video games. I have found a few RPG type games online. They are not the same as…

Oh, boy. When I was a kid, video games loaded from a 5 1/4" floppy disk. No such thing as online then.

I have a 2nd cousin with the same first and last name. Worse, for a period of one year, he worked at the same company. Imagine that confusion. There was a time I was hounded by creditors, but it turned out the problem was his credit, not mine, but it did mess with all my financial stuff for a bit.

* How important is APM to your job? Requests for monitoring of applications, services, and processes are increasing. I don't know if that capability was widely advertised to our teams previously, but they are becoming aware of it. The problem is we are in a multi-domain environment and have been having some trouble with…