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Confirmed. Nexus in my environment does not play with VNQM for reporting/recognizing jitter/delay issues for VoIP. One can only upgrade hardware and NXOS and Solarwinds versions in the hopes that newer versions will contain the compatibility and capability. Or one must move to other products or do without SLA's for VoIP.

It's pretty amazing to realize the pumpkins fly so far out of sight they can't be seen. It gives one appreciation for the danger of doing this where you might inadvertently hit someone out of sight, or damage/destroy property unintentionally. Of course, I have friends who built spud guns and potato cannons, then carried on…

Now I understand. Although "Hey Jude" is quite long-lived, I'm open to the idea that sufficient nuclear force could permanently remove it, and its singers and recordings, permanently.

Today I had two moments of recognition and appreciation. Two weeks ago a rush / high-priority project was pushed onto my team. My boss: "How long will it take to get a new secure network environment built and handed off to the SysAdmins?" Me, thinking I'm going to be on vacation next week, but back the following week . . .…

SQL: Idera Diagnostic Manager Servers in general: Nagios Oracle's OEM solution Putty, Putty Connection Manager, Secure CRT Nagios vSpher Ops Manager NetApp OnCommand LANDesk and LANDesk Service Desk Splunk (seriously undersized by the Sales Engineer--redoing the entire deployment now) Brocade Network Advisor SW/Orion: NPM,…

Familiar, but oh so painful.

Long ago my company implemented a policy that all automatically encrypted all USB devices connected to our USB ports. If you plug your smartphone's data transfer cable into one of our USB ports, your smartphone will be encrypted. So just don't do it. Then they disabled USB ports from accepting drives. This works well.

Folks around my part of the world seem to have CISSP in common.

Bump. There are perhaps ten or more different variations of this feature request. Perhaps they should all be aggregated into one?

Yes, Geology and History can be amazingly entertaining--particularly once a person can mature past youthful needs and urges. I grew up at the feet of a Master of Earth Science, the first Naturalist in the Minnesota State Parks system, and he brought that same wonder to my mind. Look overhead at the roof of a sandstone cave…

They get big when the water and air are kept clean, and when folks practice catch & release. I think most lakes would have huge fish if people just appreciated the fish for the fight and the sport and their beauty, and didn't feel a need to eat them or mount them. That fish (above) was released, as was another we put in…

Google can't make as much money serving up obscure Internet sites? Well, what's a person to do? Go back to Lycos and Alta Vista? They're possibly as guilty as Google at this. I REALLY do want to be able to treat Google as my go-to search solution, and to be able to TRUST that if the topic for which I'm searching is out…

Back at the time of this, I was skeptical, have lived through Apple's OS going public. I'm still a proponent of Cisco IOS doing the unified thing, either everything using IOS-X or NXOS. It'd help us out so much if the syntax across platforms and versions were the same. But with several million dollars of Cisco hardware, I…

I never put 2 & 2 together to blame the root cause for a network outage associated with grass or forest fires to actually be a dry spell. Good one. A few years ago I had a WAN site fall off the network. I contacted the service provider who agreed that they'd lost connectivity. Normally they're pretty good about finding &…

My preference would be to prohibit in-game purchases of any type. It's a game.

Don't forget to include your "turned off systems" must physically secured, too. Turning a PC or server or switch off isn't enough if someone has unsupervised access to it. It's why we factory-default switches and routers before we recycle them, and why we remove hard drives and portable media and shred them via a…

Happily, Solarwinds proves it's the cloud.

You can't beat Layer One security.

Bump.

I support a wireless "Star Trek Communicator Badge" type of walkie-talkie that health care providers use on our 802.11 networks. Where it works, it works pretty well, and everyone relying on it says that would never go back to the old ways. Of course, they MUST keep up with old ways for "down time procedure" practicing.…

I inherited several dozen public schools back in the mid 1990's, and soon was tasked with networking them first internally, then to other schools, and finally to the Internet. One was always problematic until I started tracing data drops up into the ceiling. There, in the dark, sitting atop a narrow building-block wall…

Ouch.

Our organization treats vaping the same as smoking cigarettes--verboten on campus anywhere, and especially within data centers.

Strangely, at the moment, Edge is working better with Thwack than Chrome--especially for reliably opening up messages. Often Chrome just sits & spins. Closing it & reopening it doesn't help. I'm not an Edge fan--just happened to have it on my W10 laptop--and I prefer Chrome over everything for its speed opening sites. But…

We've gotten several new guys in during the last few years; just about every one brought new points of view that have helped me do my job differently and better. We also had one new guy who dragged us down, following a path we couldn't support. He's no longer with us. The moral might be "A great new hire is made with…

Yes, "bugs" come under the guise of many euphemisms. A person I respect worked for years at an application & computer hardware corporation whose sales staff would cold call other big companies, find what they'd want, and promise it was already built and available, ready to buy & install & use. That person called those…

Being the "anti-cloud" guy that I am, I am surprised to see Dropbox moving out of the cloud and saying they're saving a lot of money. The cloud's been a bandwagon everyone's been jumping on, sometimes for good reasons (when a company can't afford data center services & staff internally) and sometimes for bad ones…

Regarding drinking "raw water", the author seems to have drunk the Bottled Water industry's Kool-Aid. Yes, contaminated and impure water can be dangerous to drink. Yes, millions of people around the globe have no access to safe and clean drinking water. But don't fall into the Bottled Water industry's profit trap. Don't be…

In some cases, individuals who were hired "should have been" prescreened during the technical review. Red flags were raised, sometimes inappropriate folks are hired anyway. Later, H.R. has so many complaints that the individuals were let go. LOTS of stress getting to that point where the company admits the new-hire will…

brianflynn‌, I know what you mean. As a Network Analyst it seems most everything is sent to my group first, where we have to prove a negative (no, it's not the network, but only because I'm not seeing any errors, and I AM seeing packets flowing between the source & dest defined, over the defined ports) before we can triage…