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I support your idea, but I have worked around this missing information for years by creating a Job that does a write memory on all my devices automatically every day before NCM downloads the startup & running configs. My team discussed the pro's and con's of this Job, and agreed the risk of having a running-config out of…

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It see many parallels to that circular flow. * Food: Plant, grow, harvest, deliver, buy, consume, recycle. Repeat * Head & Shoulders: Lather, Rinse, Repeat * Life: Birth, growth, learning, procreate, nurture, die. Repeat. * Water: Precipitate, collect, evaporate. Repeat * Solarwinds (or any software/app): Discover need or…

There are even more options that can help develop or share more skills: * Follow the basic writer's guide of "PPP".* Start with a person. (Or a process, or a goal) * Put them in a place. (Define the environment in which your process occurs) * Present them a problem that must be overcome. (Show how the specific skills save…

When routing and poor security allow redirecting around the globe through multiple hops using false accounts and annonymizers, new tracking/tracing technology will always be a step or more behind the bad folks. I'd love to wave a magic wand and make everyone honest and ethical. But maybe that would have bad consequences in…

I had a bicycle and friends and a fishing pole. I learned a lot more about life and what's socially acceptable or inappropriate. I see video games that award points for performing vandalism and violent acts on others. It's time to take the electronics out of the hands of the next generation and teach them how to build a…

My goal is first to be able to reliably and conveniently and quickly open an SSH session from Netpath to any of the devices it monitors. My first desired way to accomplish this is for the SSH option to be available by either right-clicking on a NetPath node or hovering over it, and selecting SSH to get a client like Putty…

Perhaps worse ramifications of this particular question, is the example of building an incorrect process for responding to the perceived need, due to the concept and corporate attitude that Rank Has Its Privileges. This means everyone tacitly agrees there are entitled administrators whose personal wants/needs/nephews…

We jumped into ACI some years ago as part of FOMO, and partly because our Cisco vendor (and Cisco themselves) said we'd have better security (East-West) visibility control. That turned out not to be the case, although we have an environment now that could possibly accomplish it if Tetration weren't a multi-million-dollar…

I like the new graphics that show which questions are complete.

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How does one protect containers from becoming compromised? I sometimes envision a container as an unopened medicine bottle, whose ingredients are pristine, pure, and safe, ready to deploy at need. Or it might be likened to a bag of unique seeds for vegetables--safe and ready to plant when needed. If that container were at…

I'd love to see this added to my Orion suite this year.

I've long been a fan of seeing everything I need to see in one view. Obviously that's impossible with all the various Solarwinds products--the screen would be enormous. So the "single-pane-of-glass" claim really is not literally accurate. But SW DOES give us a suite of products that tie together to each other, which is…

Economic Inequality is what those in power have striven to achieve and maintain and increase. Thinking differently posits the idea of altruism running rampant. And while that would be wonderful, it's rarely seen.

I can't deny your logic, Simeon. You're making good sense to me, too. I make a specific point of noting the lower BP readings when I'm at annual checkups, and report why I suspect they're better when I've not improved my diet or added more exercise to my week. The doctors/nurses aren't making their decisions in a…

Praise to good teamwork, good administration, good people, and good tools. Here's an opportunity for Amanda to rise to her next level of competence, and to prove the Peter Principle doesn't apply to her yet. Who knows why the current CTO is leaving . . .? Sometimes getting the going rate of salary requires hopping from…

Use caution; the cart must never be placed in front of the horse. One might better spend time determining IF cloud-based solutions meet the needs of security and high availability before spending resources analyzing an agency's compatibility with the cloud. We moved much to the cloud and have experienced hardware and…

You can make a tasty cake, but it's so much better if it looks interesting--AND if the interesting bits enhance the flavor.

Edge inventory is easy to miss--thanks for mentioning it.

Regarding facial recognition scanning at airports, I see the need for accurate and immediate and positive identification. I have two concerns: * Securing the digital data. Once you have my PII digitally, it seems vulnerable to misuse and theft. Based on stories from the last thirty years, it seems anything on the network…

I only wish NPM had a way to keep baselines for specific interfaces, while letting bandwidth utilization stats for all other ports fade away.

Such fun!

Agreed--I've spent lots of cycles waiting for IE to load many things, including NPM. Chrome was my go-to browser for quite a while.

Clean energy and rain in the Sahara? Uh . . . have you ever heard of the "butterfly effect"? Where seemingly miniscule or minor changes to an environment many thousands of miles away may result in huge changes your environment? I understand that LONG ago the Sahara was lush and green. And that human actions contributed to…

I've relied on Kiwi Syslog Daemon to provide advanced syslog filtering and customized forwarding for my network since version 3 many years ago. It's still running like a champ, keeping me and my team up to date on everything happening in the data centers.

marcoswithanoh​, Thwack provided a meme creation contest in past years, and suggested we start with this easy meme-building site: https://imgflip.com/memegenerator I use it for making very-specific memes. Friends get a kick out of seeing their actual name (or picture) in a meme. One can select from a wide range of popular…

Perhaps as concerning (or more?) is MS O365. Prove to me that anything cloud-based is secure. If I cannot secure it personally, I am forced to trust a stranger who says the solution is safe. (Head shakes and eye rolls). If an Edward Snowden can walk into work and walk out with secret Pentagon data without their knowledge,…

Get ready--we're sending you -27F this morning from Minnesota. Wind chills -62 F.