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Space is really the final frontier here. And it's seemingly unending. I live in the Health Care Industry, and depending on what kind of patient/provider experience you have, and also depending on your age, my organization is required to store all your medical records and images for seven years, nineteen years, or your…

It SHOULD NOT be too hard to do these things. I.T. people like us shouldn't find it hard. But my 80-year-old mother-in-law will buy a new refrigerator and blindly allow a service technician to connect it to the Internet, simply through ignorance. She has no skill to leverage the refrigerator information available through…

Sparda, you have a tough position. When I'm in a tough position that is untenable I find several options: * Appeal to a True Authority. This classic Debate technique lets recognized authorities support your case, instead of you carrying it all on your lonely shoulders. In this case, you have several groups of experts who…

NCM's Compliance and Remediation feature is a wonderful tool--I'm happy to hear you're using it to improve your environment! I use NCM daily, and it's reduced my work load, improved my company's security posture (with just a single click it fixes problems and vulnerabilities across hundreds of switches and routers), and…

BIND rocks. Tools that make BIND intuitive? Rock even harder!

Beautiful and creative. Nicely done! Also: This: CREATE APIS BETWEEN GROUPS Make instructions available to that for all apps (in your free time). ;^)

The patio is lovely! What's the small deck for in back? It looks like a small performance stage. I can imagine an electric piano, a guitar, a bass, and a sax there . . . 

That's definitely the perception we get. It would be interesting to know how to fix it more globally instead of only specifically. I'm all for improving effectiveness of tax funds and enforcement of existing laws. On the reverse side, I've seen awesome government workers and programs filing important needs efficiently, and…

I very much wish for SW to provide a data warehouse based on the Amazon QLDB idea. I'd love to show ten-year trends in bandwidth utilization, errors, apps, device counts, etc.

Test, absolutely! Just as in storage, where you backups are only as good as your latest restore, your DR plan is only as good as its last test.

Therein lies one of my fears: assuming the cloud is safe, the vendors are secure, the backups are being made--AND being tested/restored. Assuming leaves one open to much that may not be good . . . I think most customers assume that their data is secure from the back of their PC, through the wires or through the air, right…

Ever since SW4:ANH I had wondered why Han seemed to reference parsecs as time instead of distance. It took forty years to see the silver screen's clarification of that seemingly erroneous use of the word "parsec", and only then did I understand his phraseology was accurate. I related it to "everyone" knowing it was a…

Sounds like Dilbert's boss is making decisions there. "It's new, so it MUST be good!" "Everyone else is doing it . . ." "We'll save so much money, just because it's in the cloud now." On the other hand, each of those wild statements has their opposite. "New systems are expensive to develop, and come with new security…

I don't see the same thing you do, and I'm running Platform 2019.4 HF3. NCM's Config Change report still shows the context I need, even as it did years ago on earlier versions. I have always had NCM set to show the preceding and trailing three lines of config surrounding the change, and I don't see the same problem you're…

Although Skeptical Cat has strong reservations about A.I., I sure appreciate the concept for convenience. As long as A.I. / smart apps / bots only make life better, I'm a supporter. But the instant in which an antagonist can leverage the new technology to negative impact our lives, our businesses, or our environment, then…

I LOVE the math performed on the Yahoo "settlement" offer. $.04 per breached account is totally laughable! I'd consider accepting $10K for each Yahoo account of mine that's been compromised. I've experienced more than that much frustration and had to waste far too much time recovering from their lack of security. They'd…

"Does the web need a safety manual?" OMG--who are these guys & what are they thinking? By the way, this also applies to El Chapo.

Hating Mark Z. is an interesting read. There's much to be learned, if one can get past the vulgarity, the sarcasm, and the vitriol. I think this is truly worth a read. And then worth thinking about seriously.

The way we're silo'd I couldn't justify SAM, SRM, or DPA; my team does "pure networking" and we only have customers of switches & routers & AP's & firewalls. No applications, no servers (technically). But OH, WHAT WE COULD DO if we had those other modules . . .!

I occasionally have my DBA's do work in the Orion SQL database (backups, unlock hung queries, etc.). They've got their work scripted out so it does the work with minimal commands on their part, it's automated and can be run on a timer/schedule, and it sends me a notification about what was completed automatically. I'd…

Now I'm gun-shy to use the next spike as an answer--the quiz will change since lindsey.serrano​ is reviewing the graph and the answer choices . . .

Fat to thin makes sense. It's just another way of applying what Citrix Thin Clients did for PC replacement; look at the huge improvements that resulted from that--especially WAN utilization decreases. Virtualization is another example. Five years ago our SysAdmins had to stop installing new apps because they'd run out of…

The Microsoft option to turn information in a photograph into text in a table seems helpful. Even today I use Excel's option to convert text to table--especially when I don't get what I want from a Cisco product or from some Solarwinds output. It seems like powerful tech, but MS has proven they can purchase or develop…

Again, many interesting topics. Some are simply the results of pathetic plans, though. I don't like to advise people to "get a life", but it remains a viable alternative to believing streaming everything on the Internet into your head is the sole acceptable form of entertainment. * Ransomware. What will you do when it…

You're correct--the Application was out. I feel the controversy seems to focus on Answer D, involving intent.

I'd start out by giving my team 20% raises. Then I'd hire a team of Solarwinds experts, and bring in all the Orion modules, installed on top-of-the-line hardware VM solutions. After that was in place, I'd create a new Orion Monitoring Department, and I'd head it up. With plenty of training for all team members. Follow that…

I was just considering my job becoming obsolete as a result of adopting Cisco's ACI solution, which seems to tie in nicely with this thread. ACI reportedly lets an IT team get more done with the same amount of staff. It gives Network Analysts, Application Analysts, Security Analysts, and System Administrators visibility…

I'm using NPM 12.2. Each time I hit that magnifying glass in the initial installation of 12.2 I ran into problems. I labeled it "leave this alone" in my mind, and haven't visited it since applying the patches. When I tried it just now, NPM didn't know about my PC's IP address--which should be known through UDT. It DOES…

Yes, there's too many ways to skin that cat. Cost now comes with discovering limitations and perhaps needing to upgrade later for more cost. Cost later means missing out on important labor-saving functionality today. The litmus test is can you make more money (or reduce more trouble tickets / prevent problems / identify…