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Good posting.

Interesting set of articles. And nice rig for the meats!!!!

I experienced the lack of data but that did not prevent me from seeing the answer. 

Interesting tacts on a similar situation we all face on the daily basis. Usually, it has been comparing hard and soft dollars (real down time and labor) when something goes bad to the cost of tools and process changes that will improve efficiences. It is truly a cat and mouse game as I have witnessed in long IT career!

The journey to knowledge quest continues. Thanks for the posting.

The one universal constant in the IT industry----caffeine!

Thanks for the posting. 

Did anyone actually perform any analysis of the bandwidth during the world cup in 2014 or how about this year for the women? Just curious.

That's okay! Change is good, change is constant, change is a good motivator. Best of luck on the upgrade!!!!

Information and education. Our only true weapons. Great article. I too appreciate checklists.

Well stated! I am proud to be called an IT Pro!!!!

Interesting article.

This would definitely be a handy addition. Sometimes it is easy to get distracted while adding a new node and forget to go back and add it to the job listing. I just ran into this situation while adding new location inventory.

Great posting! Thanks for sharing!

And the reason for the color changes. I was thinking about your diagram and my listing of skill sets and thought, I wonder what my diagram would look like, so I was curious about the colors?

This raises a question for me as I am beginning to walk down the path of a cisco device refresh. Migrating from 3750 to 3850 access switches. I was planning on migrating the configs including the IP address of the switches. But, I really do not want to have to delete and re-create dozens of switches to get the correct…

Good article and discussion.

Congratulations to all the winners! And to the rest of us who have gained knowledge!

Bookmarking this page. Thanks!

The only drawback my organization has is NOT having a good change management process. Overall, the configuration management is in check but things can and do get modified without the supporting documents. The recent staff turnover has brought some of that to the light and we are actively engaged in solving that issue.…

Thanks for the post! Good information.

Thanks!

Issues being solved is always a good story.

I'll admit that I have never heard of this one.

Nice information. Thanks for the memories. I built my first DNS server back in 1991 on a 386BSD machine.

Wow, that takes me back. Funny how necessity makes for interesting solutions. 

I checked out your blog and will be adding it to my reading list.

Interesting article subject.

Great information. Thanks for the information.

Nice summary information.