petergwilson · Monitoring Specialist · ✭✭✭✭✭

There's only one thing worse than outlaws............in-laws.

Yep, Netware 2.15 was difficult, 3.x was a bit easier, 4.x was a big improvement especially moving away from the bindary and onto NDS. 5, 6 and 6.5 were really nice to work on. eDirectory still makes AD look like a toy.

Encryption is a start but it isn't enough. You need to stop the stealing of the data (encrypted or not) in the first place. Once stolen they can take their time decrypting it. Remember the German Enigma code during WWII. The British had all the encrypted comms and were able to break the codes given enough time. OK we did…

Bit pedantic on Q4 but it doesn't specify by bytes, packet or percent. Thus there are two possible answers. Typically I chose the one you didn't.

I can certainly empathise with this. IBM sent me out to India to train some of their people out there to audit security settings on Netware servers, eDirectory and GroupWise. I spent three weeks training 7 people using really low level slides, notes and actual live mouse clicking. I continually checked to see that they…

Signed up for this presentation. It's an uphill struggle here. In a team meeting a couple of weeks ago my manager (Infrastructure and Application support) actually said "Monitoring isn't that important is it". It was funny watching most of my colleagues diving for cover before I exploded. All except for the snowflake who…

I was on a pub crawl in London last weekend when I saw this street just off the famous Brick Lane. Seemed Solarwinds appropriate.

The internet works. Just leave it alone.

Worked for me.

Yep. I think I know the correct answer but even then there could be an issue as in reality there are NO ESX servers. There are a number of Hosts and even that causes an issue as to how many they are looking for. I think this one needs a lot of clarification.

I'm already doing some of this and want to get the rest sorted. I use SAM to monitor the server with AppInsight currently monitoring AD and SQL. I want to use Appinsight for Exchange and ADFS as well but am having issues as we run Solarwinds as SaaS, I don't have access to the back end and we NAT the inbound monitoring IP…

Quite a few people here demanded standing desks. Now they are all set to the sitting position. I guess that fad passed.

But Apple were already accessing your data (allegedly). 

Training ? What's that. At my last place we had a project manager who used to watch movies on his laptop (including having headphones on) DURING meetings. A complete waste of time who would then throw the blame around when projects went wrong. It was never his fault in spite of constantly being told where he was going…

Looked at HCI for our infrastructure refresh but decided to go with HP pizza boxes and retain VMWare as we all know it, spares will still be available in 5 years and it is a lot cheaper. We can still add compute, storage and memory whenever we like. We've only got about 200 servers on our current VM setup anyway.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Problem is that some companies are saying "Move everything to the cloud". What they then believe is that they can get rid of all those 'expensive' support people and save money. WRONG. They will need to keep those same people as they will still have to manage and support the applications and servers but will have the added…

Working from home. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that this would be a good thing. After the initial period where you do slack off you will realise that you can do all the slacking off stuff AND get the work done. There are far fewer interruptions, you don't have hour long discussions with colleagues who don't…

Yep, looking like we will need this very soon too.

Still in GBP.

Absolutely. We should be in a glass case with a sign saying "In case of emergency break glass". Otherwise, leave us alone, we know what we are doing. Life would be a lot easier if management would stop interfering.

Thanks, Not bad for 13 months and 3 days. Peter

Don't use spotify as I buy my music and get to chose what I want to listen to rather than just rent it and hope the money goes to the correct people.

I want to complain about today's question. It was too easy Seriously though. I'm taking a look at DPA. Could be very useful.

A friend of mine swears by Redbreast but I don't see it. Not heard of the other one never mind pronounce it . I keep the scotch for cooking I might be a bit biased as I'm from N. Ireland and lived very near Bushmills for 4 years whilst at university (spend many Saturday afternoons on the distillery tour enjoying the free…

Cheers for the link. Top banana.

Seen it all too often in the public and private sector where the agency has changed someone's job title to IT Security Manager and feel that they are covered. Quite often that person has had no training or doesn't have the correct skill-set for the role.

When I read the bit (AGE MATTERS LESS THAN MATURITY) I thought you were about to go down the route of the IT person. As an older IT person I thought you were going to talk about how many older people in IT don't grasp Network Security but are in senior positions. It is funny how they talk rubbish then look to me for…

Amazon RDS sounds good but we have just installed VMWare NSX on premises so we can move all of our stuff OFF the IBM cloud. It is unlikely we will move any SQL stuff or anything else to the cloud any time soon.

Yesssss. Solar charger ordered. Now just have to hope deliveries happen before the world shuts down and we get the zombie apocalypse.