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Here's hoping Moore's Law kicks in to make the transition more swift and affordable than the millions of years of evolution it actually took to create a Loris and a Peregrine Falcon from a common ancestor. --->
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Special note about the Easy Button. The current release of NAM at 2018-12-18 is not activating all modules (NCM, NTA, HA, etc.) beneath NAM when NAM is licensed and activated. One must still manually activate the licenses at the portal, copy their license keys one at a time, and enable them in the License Manager within…
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Thank you, and MANY CONGRATULATIONS to everyone!
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I was surprised the 3-2-1 article failed to include this old standard: "Your backups are only as good as your last successful restore." I was also reminded of the "5-4-3" rule of networking (found at 5-4-3 rule - Wikipedia ), which burned me in the late 90's as I attempted to improve visibility into WAN segments.…
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It was an easy mission, a pleasure to participate in and from which to learn.
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F5 provides a process to automatically backup their LTM files to a remote file server. If you follow through on all their steps, you can do a complete rebuild of an LTM. But it is not simple and easy and intuitive. NCM would be a better solution. Plus it compares and displays configuration changes.
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scuff, I see where you're coming from, and I like the point of view. I'll have to disagree with you where you say "we have to draw a line and let the Cloud providers monitor (and manage) the infrastructure, because we simply won't have access to." Thankfully we don't have to do this at all. We don't have to put the fox in…
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There's no hint necessary today (10/22/2018). Just use the obvious answer and you'll be in the green.
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Cloud-based services aren't going away, but folks investing time and money in them may be experiencing marketing myopia when defining cloud customers. My employer is a Health Care organization serving rural Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota. We're maybe a $3B business, with about 14,000 employees. We've known forever…
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Sometimes breaking through silo walls can be as simple as: * Get permission to monitor another department's systems with NPM * Show that department the information * Give the folks in that department their own NPM access & view into their gear * Then show them the product-specific Orion module(s) that target better…
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Definitely I'm in favor of best of breed, layered, best practices security solutions, and ensuring you have a great SIEM analyzing what's happening, pointing out highlights and making recommendations, is a great step towards knowing what's happening, and whether it's good or bad. I love the idea of establishing,…
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Having learned from experiences like yours, we now do monthly UPS and generator failover tests for all our data centers and critical systems. It was a little scary initially, but it's really saved the bacon a few times--well worth the time spent on monthly testing for confidence in reliability and staff…
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I completely missed the "Frozen" site reference, and was reminded of Imladris / Rivendel from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and of Earendil from The Silmarillion. Thwack, you've educated me yet again! As for my previous lack of knowledge about your cloud-based back-up solution, I sing: "Let it go! Let it go! I…
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Perhaps some of the best advice I've read: "Don't enable any alerts until you've determined they will tell you something important, and that you can take immediate action on the cause of the alerts to correct or prevent problems." You could adjust those specific alerts to NOT send them to folks who don't need them. If only…
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The article about Silicon Valley failing to protect our data has my full support. I like the idea of a DPA. I find some real parallels between the author's points of view and my own. On the other hand, even as spam artists collect more information about active and real mail accounts by including a link/phrase "Click here…
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I hope Orson Scott Card gets a little ka-ching every time "Ansible" is used in print. I agree that the emotional and motivational lift that comes from attending these events MUST be a great thing to experience. On the other hand, when I go to trade shows and come back reinvigorated and excited about the future, I always…
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Wow. I sure wish it were possible to edit comments. Rereading the above, I see I did some copying & pasting that ended up with a sentence that's hard to understand. Where I wrote "risking human error reading classic "doctor's handwriting" could mean spending extra time chassis a doctor down and asking her or him what it…
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I concur with most of the above contributors' positions on Generalist vs. Versitilist. My personal observation and experience has been that employers love specialists on their staff, but rarely budget for them--or for enough of them. It simply requires too many expensive bodies that know the deep details, and employers end…
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And this one, jmbourn: https://www.simplemost.com/states-wont-let-pump-gas/ Some of the links in this one are particularly helpful, although the last link no longer points to a video of a gas station attendant working with a customer pumping gas while smoking a cigarette. The customer refused to put out the cigarette and…
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There are several steps that might be considered in the original circle of a Help Desk cycle: Before Step One might come: * User experiences inability to perform a task and becomes unproductive and frustrated--perhaps even emotional. * User contacts their supervisor, disrupts their peers, seeking a fix for the problem…
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5G laptops make sense. Except my region of the U.S. only got 4G two or three years ago--It'll probably be 2023 before 5G is available here. It's the price I pay for low population density, clean air, clean water, good fishing, and no traffic jams or road rage.
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Like you, I believed I chose the best answer. The workaround for you is to patiently wait to submit answers until you can get off your employer's network, assuming you could get access from public wifi somewhere, or from home. I don't have that explanation for why the intuitive answer is not the correct one, since I can…
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Well, they couldn't be quite so draconian (although I could imagine doing it easily) because they were after the "brains" of the bugs--the scientists or queens or whatever directed the hive. Each place they actually used nukes, either they wiped out the brains, or simply locked one door and the worker / warrior bugs…
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Thanks. 2012's request for this is a long time ago. And it's not even possible to vote that request up any more. It'd be nice to know this is either going to be provided, or is not ever going to be provided.
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The trick is for the rest of the world to treat natural resources as sacred. That way you don't discover someone started fracking to get more oil and ended up contaminating your well and causing flammable liquids & gases coming out of the kitchen faucet. Or opening up a copper mine under the lake that provides your city's…
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The Contact Tracing article was interesting! Thank you for sharing it.
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Have you considered using NCM to baseline your network nodes' configurations, and then alerting when the running or startup configs no longer match that baseline?
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As with others, my opinion about block chain remains: It's smoke & mirrors, it's absolutely nothing. But it MIGHT be a successful attempt to get users to spend ridiculous amounts of processing power to discover block chain components, or entire block chains, which could be leveraged to defeat other security algorithms,…
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One wonders who is responsible for putting an incompetent and inexperienced person in charge of an important government agency in Japan. Thankfully I don't have to worry about that happening in the United States. (My tongue got stuck in my cheek again.)
