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Interesting article.

Wow, I guess I never really thought much about the titles. But here goes Software developer Field Service Engineer Network Systems Engineer Network Administrator Senior Network Administrator Senior Systems/Network Engineer Technical Analyst II Infrastructure Support Specialist Never held titles that match my certification…

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But the more proactive thought is that multiple skills with backups make for a more productive team and less stressful environment. Also, when things turn sideways, multiple heads to solve it generally makes the resolution appear quicker. I have been in both environments. The stress of being the lone wolf and worrying…

Did you ever answer your question about SSD having SAM live on it?

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Good reference material.

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Or I have been part of a system where the NOC gets the alerts but fail to escalate them to the engineers. This is the opposite side of tuning. The problem then is the engineers don't know something is wrong and fail to act.

Good information. Helpful and educational.

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This was an interesting article. Very informative.

Overall having spent years working with *Nix-based monitoring systems, SW was easy to implement. Strangely though, most of my peers have only one complaint about SW. Speed in that the UI is very slow. Since, I have a bunch of experience with PERL, and PHP web development and how fast those languages make the UI work. It…

I think I am in the same boat as most of you. When working with a third-party vendor they usually do not consult our DBA or for that matter have much of an understanding regarding indexing, stored procedures, etc. I have run into issues where the application fails and they want to blame the environment (We have never…

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Looks like I need to look at evaluating SAM. Bookmarked this article. Thanks!

Take the adage: "All tasks have two things in common, they must be done and they must be done right" Apply that against 34 years of professional IT Experience. I started out as a computer programmer, followed into electrical engineering, back to computer networking. Along the way, picked up skills that were needed today…

What have the long term effects been from this merger? Anyone?

I see your point. Since I have Radius/Tacacs+ login logging to each device, i will have to investigate setting up the real-time configuration changes. They would certainly keep things tidy for audits. Thanks!

I will be sparking up an evaluation copy of IPAM in the very near future. Until then, the spreadsheet rules

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I have been in departments that they require the enormous weight in documentation and then as I have studied more in the LEAN world, that a simple diagram is often the most helpful. I have been the guy that wrote the documentation (datachick) so I have gotten tons of questions, but if you take a few minutes as the project…

Interesting article.

Interesting thoughts about functional teams and the distribution of data. I enjoyed the article and yes I attended the PerfStack training and I look forward to seeing what it will reveal.

Good information. Thanks for sharing. 

Just finished my lunch when I came across this great collection. Now, Bacon seems like what I was missing in my lunch for some reason.