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Thanks to all working so hard to make this move a success! Looking great so far

Last year we had an air conditioner (the kind that does heating/cooling/dehumidifing and particulate removal) in a room adjacent to the NOC catch fire one Friday night. It was hot enough to melt aluminum. The data center fire suppression was triggered by the smoke, the 2 staff there had to evacuate, and the "A" side power…

Congrats! We can all come over and play right?

Nothing explains an issue like a clear picture with a bunch of green, and a spot of red. NetPath is very useful to start a discussion. 

Thanks for all your contributions to both the new and old MVPs!

I remember that day. I was learning to swap tapes for backup jobs and asked how to figure out the keys since they aren't labeled. I got laughed at.

Its a great start! But for a business without one started, its like looking into an Abyss. I have now seen my IT department adopt ITIL and start this effort. The work is less scary then the idea of it.

Iot is a driving force to how we are designing our client subnets, and drive new network access requirements. Basically the approve ones go to a DMZ, the others go out to our guest access network. 

I thought the same thing. I figured I would come back to it after reading a weeks worth of comments.

I agree that Orion deserves a little thought before you take action on it. Below is a month of CPU averages from my 2nd polling engine. I love that the peaks and valley's dropped off, and if I hadn't been the one to make the change, I might have really been bothered by the drop, or if it had gone the other way, why did it?…

mr.e​ That post is the "what we are working on" which means that they hope to have it in a future release. Its also not promised in what version if any SW will add it to the product. Edit: I was too slow, a coworker distracted me before I hit submit.

And after that having their trust goes along way. If they trust your judgement, the details are less important.

I voted for Chicago, but if you get Columbus going I will be there.

I got it, but today's question will definitely ruin peoples chances for the monthly prize.

Just last Friday I was asked for a better better view into this by my Director for the CIO. They wanted a year of quarterly summaries for network gear/servers/application uptime % and ideally filtered by custom properties we have set (depts. teams, locations, etc). I only had an hour to deliver and did not give them what…

In the darkest month, it seems logical. I say do it. Everyday.

I agree @"vinay.by" that is what I do

I had been doing desk-side support for about 5 weeks when a user complained of slowness connecting to an ERP application. From everything that we (the application analyst and myself could see, it looked fine, not at all slow, so I told her that I would leave the ticket open for a bit while I talked with other's that might…

Ransomware got a lot better for us as the year went on. I don't think its gone for good, but our process to detect and contain is much better, and the Layers of defense between us and them got smarter.

Yah, I think a model like the one proposed above makes more sense when you have a complicated thing, in this case a vehicle. WWII Jeeps were much easier to know what was going on just by looking at them. Today, you need so much more.

Looks like points still add correct to the total at the top of the page, so its likely just a display issue. I think I can survive.

The way I understand it is that Quantum encryption is also a thing, but it does mean that at some point everything we do to encrypt will have to to be replaced with something. I guess that is always true, but this will be a bigger shift than normal.

What are your issues? I haven't upgraded, and would like to know what you ran into

It's an honor, thank you!

Cool! Thanks!

I have worked for Nationwide Children's Hospital for over a decade in various forms of IT. Here nothing is about the technology, its all about what the technology means. It has to run all day, every day, at over 100 locations we support. Anyone can imagine, but parents of sick children know that a visit to a hospital or…

Funny this mission starts today. Today is also when my team Adds "cloud" to its official set of tasks. It's no longer a one off niche need, its about to be offered to internal IS as a service with all the standardization to ensure security and compliance baked in, and everything else internally hosted resources provide.

I have scheduled discovery jobs that rerun on our existing nodes, they automatically add interfaces and disks based on the filters we approve. Once I started that I no longer worry about missing disks.

I just ran the update from 2020.2 to 2020.2.1 on the same environment, this time it completed everything in a hour.

We have quarterly training that is optional about Compliance and Security topics, it by no means covers more than a fraction of users. We have also used http://phishme.com/ to simulate various scenarios over the course of a year to "high value" staff including management, IT administrators, finance and accounting, etc.…