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I experience this when vendors bring "experts" in to tell us the problem is not their apps or their hardware, and that it IS my network at fault. Perhaps once in fifteen occasions they're correct. The other fourteen times they find and fix problems internally. And probably ten of those times they don't admit the cause is…

I'm up with reading about the prices for various storage solutions. Can anyone share storage types, their sizes, and ballpark costs? Just how expensive IS an all-flash array compared to the other options?

There are too many memes out there to not share a few more: What's next--Jack Sparrow against Darth Vader? Oops . . . There's just one word for it:

And then I realized I've seen this before . . . Too Many Tools

byrona​, you're the original creator of this thread. Since you're also an MVP, you have the permission to download and install, with full support, any and all of the SW products by using MVP NFR licenses. Granted, these licenses are not large-scale (they're whatever the smallest license pack is per Orion module/product),…

Yes, Bruce Dern was often a ne'er-do-well. The director made us recognize it in Bruce's shaving, clothes,make-up, & expressions.

I've heard that same report: "SQL will take over all the available memory if you let it." "Don't be surprised to see Orion NPM reporting the top servers with heavy memory utilization are all SQL servers." And more and more of similar information. I'm no SQL guy, not a DBA of any kind at all. Maybe it's simpler for them to…

Regarding a Dr. Who mission theme, I recently became aware of (former Dr. Who) Matt Smith traveling through multiple universes in the Terminator Series. It turns out he IS Sky-NET, and is leveraging a very Doctor-Who-Like ability to jump universes to prevent Sky-NET's destruction by John Connor. Talk about mixing series!…

In "Rick-Perfect-World" all those items would be mandatory before any users were allowed to have logins or equipment or network access. Management would be required to provide budget and ongoing training and appropriate staffing levels. Users would be required to successfully pass quarterly or monthly training tests.…

Regarding the fallacy of digital transformation: doing half a job--or less--results in an incomplete product. If your job is migrating to new tech, providing new services, moving into a new environment, developing new hardware or apps--or even selling lemonade at the curb--doing it right 100% of the time is the way to…

The public schools were a great refuge of convenience and stability for me, back then. I got a great job that I leveraged into a Network Manager position and was able to build their IT infrastructure from nothing to a 33-site WAN that serviced 14,000 users in just a few short years. Of course, no one was getting paid the…

Wow. After seemingly finding three possible answers, thanks to you Thwacksters, I eliminated one, then re-read the entire Hint and remained confused. Certainly two of the answers were correct, I thought! Then reading more carefully, I realized my mind had played a trick on me. It had assumed I'd read something that wasn't…

I learned a bit of trivia a few years back about that phrase: "It's a Duesy!" It comes from the luxury automobiles made by the Duesenberg company. To make that claim, something had to be very fancy. Duesenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Preaching to the choir again. Getting Layers 8, 9, 10 to listen and dance to your music--that's when I'll be impressed, and when the silos will come tumbling down.

I've accomplished something that works equivalently by customizing my team's Orion Home Page to include the Search Node function: Might this work for you? I realize you probably want something higher up the chain that would be available from any place in NPM. But this is easy to do, and easy to get at by just going to your…

Complete. Easy to understand. Nicely done!

When this is over? I'll be with friends again. Be employed again? Making plans to go fishing and guiding again. Drive the AlCan, and then drive back down home again. Seeing bison and moose and those pronghorn again! I'll be smiling again, hugging strangers again! Greeting new friends and old with great styling again. I'll…

Agreed--it should be acceptable to have a GBIC present but not have alerts coming from it or its node. I don't know whether that's on Cisco's back to fix or SW's, but certainly I can see the benefit of tying hardware to an interface instead of a node.

I agree with much of what has been commented above, and I'll take it a step further: Nothing should stand in the way of C-Level or Director-Level administrators from being hands-on, from directing staff to cooperate better, and to break through silo walls. But you'll have seen that something is getting in the way. People…

With Software Defined Networking & SaaS on the horizon (and steadily getting closer) we were able to move forward with a pair of resilient Meraki 250's in our two data centers, which will form the basis of retiring our Cisco ASA 5505's (about 80 of them), which will be replaced with Meraki Z3's. It was the ASA's that…

Nielsen contacted me to participate in their polling/monitoring solution back in the 1980's. It required me to manually report (Pre-Internet!) my viewing habits in 15-minute intervals. For the information, they send me ONE DOLLASR in the mail, in advance, as "thanks for sharing information with us that will allow…

Sometimes improving a work or home environment needs a change in your own personal DevOps Model. It can be as simple as the difference between acting like an adult and acting immaturely. When I was a little boy, sometimes I'd do the wrong thing. Not wanting to suffer the wrath of a parent or teach, that little boy would…

The funny thing to me is that none of my friends or family speak that way, and I grew up here and have stayed here for nearly sixty years. Yet "we" Minnesotans recognize that there ARE some folks who speak that way, and when we use their form we're not poking fun, but are opening a shared and common reference for…

We've had experts come through to analyze our products and business needs. It's not unusual for them to ask for a list of every application, every system, every service, every team that we consider "business critical, and every item we consider "mission critical." Then they proceed to tell us that no business should have…

@"cnorborg" has the same answer I would have offered. You might be thinking in reverse of what's most efficient to leverage SW's capabilities.

By the way, I'm using the same versions of NPM, NCM, and UDT as you are.

Then we'd be politicians and agenda-leaning "news" agencies and governments and security organizations . . . Sadly, there's too much true information out there, along with too much false info. Some folks apparently will stop at nothing to gain money and power, and possibly fame. How sad . . .

Perfect. Concise. Thank you for cutting to the heart of the matter!

"A worker with an AXE"? OMG! I've seen similar experiences with a worker with a Sawz-All inadvertently cutting through all fibers in a big bundle on the other side of a wall. Since then we use diverse physical paths and require geographic diversity for all entry points to network rooms, data centers, POP's, etc.

And load the dice so SW comes up more often--just for fun. Make them red, or print "Loaded Dice--not for gambling or gaming" on them.