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Interesting combination you present. Food for thought!

Nice post!

Good article.

THanks!

Good listing of ideas. Yes we all want to avoid traffic whenever possible! 

Interesting.

Interest post and comments.

Thanks for the information.

I could see the benefit. For instance, I alert on WAN connections and included the circuit ID as a custom property. By having an option to require the field, that would ensure additional nodes being added have the required information populated. Good call!!!!

I enjoyed reading this material. Thanks!

I worked for a consulting company many years ago and I got a call from a client of ours that something was happening with their systems. Turns out a social engineering ploy had been leveraged against the dial-up bulletin board system account and without multiple layers of authentication, they were able to access the…

Good points in the write-up. I have found that documentation and automation to be the challenges. Human nature is to complete the task and move on. But remembering and taking the time to document is a sign of maturity. Automation is great but I have found that too many administrators and upper management are scared of it.…

Interesting.

Thanks for posting the good tips!

Enjoyable article. Adding some of those quotes to my list

I remember something being said about something called "Bacon".................

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The scariest phrase from our profession "Can you recommend" For personal/consumer use, I spent six years in retail operations and had to deal with lots and lots of consumers. I used to always ask the question "What do you want to use a computer for?" Now, since most hardware is uniform, I always tell people to let me know…

Interesting discussion points. Fortunately, the organization I work for believes that we have already been hacked and have put security as a continually updating animal and have invested in tools that will perform some of the required analysis and backtracking to ensure that we really have not been hacked. Everyone in the…

well, UUCP mail would be fairly straightforward to keep the learning curve down. Unless of course you are in the lucky group to be Lotus Notes users or possibly GroupWise......

On my team, they are used to looking at NPM at regular basis and are able to be proactive when things fail. They contact the appropriate support people with the knowledge of where the problem exits, and they can contact the affected departments and inform them before the department realizes that there is a problem. It is…

Good information.

Has this progressed into some other SW product?

I will check this out. Thank!

Thanks!

Good information.

Thanks for the posting!

Oh I so totally agree. We only allow ours to wear velcro shoes..... 

Interesting solution.

Good information. Bookmarked this post. THanks!