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Along those lines, it isn't just NTM that provides useful indication of connections. NTM give us the physical connections. The information from the QoE dashboard however gives us the logical connections between servers Especially as our servers are usually on specific networks.

I love the challenge for this week, it reminded me that we still hadn't installed V7 yet.

I never win anything either - but really hoping my luck will change, I've just entered a raffle for a Tesla

Nice! Welcome guys

Thank you and glad to be back!

just migrating to here, it has a nice cost should work within our environment at least

The ITIL exams do that. They have a most correct for 5, a mostly correct for 3, a slightly correct for 1 and a flat wrong answer for zero. There are only eight questions but that 90 minutes disappears fast.

it always feels like some thought leadership needs the added push of a thought cattle-prod, or a thought carrot-on-a-stick. For some organizations it almost feels like a thought grenade is needed, but even the largest of immovable objects starts to shift in the end.

not surprised to see Solarwinds so high up the ability to execute, but am very surprised by your location on the completeness of vision, I was expecting the dot to be much further to the right given the number of choices we have to connect everything. I would love to see NPM & SAM to get much much closer together, almost…

biggest issues for are support for the newer hardware or vendors. That is where the price/performance is most attractive

My first computer was an Acorn Atom built from a kit, 2K ram, no discs but a standard audio cassette tape for storage.

cahunt already voted

Fully agree with not falling into the trap of people assuming that the CMDB is just something populated by the asset management system. Accurately establishing relationships between CI's really gives you the building blocks for so many other parts of your ITSM, from evaluating risk for changes to impact assessments for…

wow this is weird - the end of the week and we still have less than one page of comments !

shadow IT is odd though, as more and more companies expect their users to personally supply mobile devices etc. In the mobile space "Shadow IT" is the norm.

Feedback is a gift - but only when its given as such. Much feedback is more like a targetted vent

Darn it, you're making me want to re-read it all over again. I still have my hardback copy

I think I know what the issue could be. If you do the same as me and open the question in a new tab/window, that doesn't seem to work anymore, all you get is the same page. If you just click the link it opens within the current window - much nicer

Because bacon describes just about anything

Dang it - got a red X today. That's what you get for not paying attention

social media is ok for somethings, but sharing security information probably isn't one I'd be too keen on. That ends up making the feed into something with a small number of inputs and lots of readers - but the social aspects makes trust a huge issue. Mixed feelings on this one

that does sound like a nightmare Thankfully we don't have to monitor something we don't control

we just got this, it will be interesting to see it in action

I'd already voted for this one

kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent?

I love the comment attributed to the guy from Salesforce. The internet was engineered to withstand nuclear war, but is now brought down by toasters Not strictly true, but it sure makes great headlines

Sadly I now realize that any expectation I had of privacy is grossly overestimated. Most US police forces routinely employ license plate scanners, most of you home ownership data is public domain as is tax status etc etc I drive an electric car that provides me with all sorts of cool data - which of course is used by the…

One issue can be the "best of breed" strategy that really messes with available tools. Its great if you standardize on a single vendor, then put up with substandard capabilities but sacrifice monitoring. Good example would be Palo Alto - awesome firewall and capability, extremely limited monitoring in NPM.

I'm guessing its down to percentages of customers from each part of the world - that and the thwack handle doesn't really show where people are from, so you can't readily tell.

Nice whitepaper for the hint today, worth reading in all circumstances