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When I need to make bulk changes to a large number of devices, I do so via the Execute Command Script in NCM. But first I go to NCM's Settings and change how my devices are grouped. Normally I display them grouped by Vendor: But in the case of wanting to only work on a specific model of hardware--which will all use the…

After more thought, I'm leaning more towards the idea that this could be accomplished with either a Baseline Config Comparison (mentioned early), or via a home-made Compliance Report. If everything except Location, Device Name, and IP address/mask/gateway are the same for all your devices, why not build a Compliance Report…

Anytime we help the end users, those folks are often so gracious and grateful to be included in the solution, or to have someone share the problem and the fix or an ETR with them. I remembered a time when resurrecting Sneaker-Net was greatly appreciated by a group . . . Once I worked where one department was dependent on…

Maybe I'm traveling in the wrong groups, reading the wrong blogs, but . . . Who else but Thwack does this for users--for free? Obi-Wan has taught you well.

There are some parts missing to that story, I suspect. It would be nice to hear that "corrections" were applied to ensure your recommended stand alone backup was regularly performed . . .

Here's another one, adopted by Open Source types, that I like:

One of my best friends, a Business Manager in a Fortune 500 company, is facing upper level demands to upgrade a custom, in-house-developed core application. The Applications Analysts working for him say "No, it turns out that, in this case, the time spent modernizing and kluging a 20-year-old application won't be well…

Perhaps the best class I ever took in college was one in Technical Writing. I learned to improve my communication greatly (but I think they missed the part about not saying too much!). And I've inherited, by default and demonstrated ability, the responsibility of documenting the network. It really ends up being a…

SNMP is not, in my opinion, obsolete. It's useful, easy to define and use, and provides a lot of what I rely on for ensuring I know what systems have problems that SNMP can detect/report. Traps remain an enigma due to the wide variety of things that might be selected for reporting. Does one simply pick and choose which…

Excellent observations and thought process, as always. But for those of us in the public light, may I gently suggest combining two steps: * Curiosity leads to hacking * Hacking leads to discovery We could easily bypass "hacking" and say "Curiosity leads to discovery." Exactly how we discover can be a matter of process and…

Absolutely! I was the number ONE cheerleader AGAINST smart watches. I'm also not in favor of Bluetooth-enabled automobiles (if needed, I could tether my smartphone for hands-free use in the car). But I AM in favor of SOS or 911 services and safety/security GPS monitoring of vehicles.

How does the information get into the HP agent's "rack location" field originally? Someone has to enter it into that field, right? If so, you're back to a manual process and a potential for human error. NPM can't "know" where your device is, but it CAN read the strings someone has manually entered into that device's…

"The Measure Of A Man" was a great episode of ST:TNG. One whose ethics and thorny questions may need to be dealt with to prevent creating a class of sentient / artificial slaves through our efforts to create new options through A.I. Sentience IS what I'm pointing at, since I don't believe A.I. can be achieved without also…

Equally distasteful, but Weird Sisters gets a bonus point for having a tune with a rock bagpipe. Ugh. And even with that, they STILL outperform Dethklok.

I like your philosophy. EVERY agency and person and organization participating with anything financial or online or having to do with health or safety or manufacture or electricity or water . . . They ALL need better security training and better scrutiny and review.

Yes, I was able to search for descriptions and find them with SolarWinds IPAM's current version. For example, my building's name is "Peerless". I have that name included in subnets for the building, and also for some Fixed or Reserved addresses in those subnets. searched for that word and came up with the expected subnets…

The last question taught me a lot!

I, too, use Ctrl+F frequently. I particularly enjoyed today's answers because they all show up when searching the hint page. As you noted, thought is required to select the correct answer. I have a chip on my shoulder for using CTRL+F because I feel using it results in someone selecting an answer without having to read and…

To each environment must go its own monitoring. Internal for internal, Cloud for cloud. With occasional crossovers and hybrids for resilience and redundancy.

Just LOADS O' STUFF! Good stuff, that is.

Ex-employees Deleting Your Data & Wiping Your Servers? * Have a respectable security policy, keep it up to date, and enforce it. That means disabling accounts of former employees and changing all passwords to accounts that can't be disabled--as soon as the employee is terminated. No exceptions. * Have all your data backed…

Fix people, then security won't be an issue. Until space aliens threaten. Why not pick Akamai as the harmful vector? It seems everything must pass through their advertising blocks. They'd be a handy vector. Or something cloud-based, innocuous--maybe Google DNS?

Solarwinds products make discovering problems and showing responsibility so much easier! If the parties who can correct the issues don't accept ownership from me, I just send my boss a description of the problem, the NPM/NTA graph or reports or screen shots that show the problem and its cause, and I list the team I believe…

I read the MS / Chrome-Chromium story earlier this month with interest. I appreciate when MS can adapt to others, can admit that MS doesn't have the best or only answer, and when they don't buy out any company who happens to have a good or better idea. Thanks for highlighting this news this week!

I recommend this article, and support its concepts highly. Rather than building a fast and insecure solution, then locking it down at the expense of speed (sometimes AFTER the horses were already stolen), I'd much prefer to have every security option implemented before the produce is made available to users. Once its…

The question is, how many viewers of that cartoon recognized Mark's voice without having to read or be told who was playing the Joker?

All that's available today, that I'm aware of, is opening NetPath in Chrome, getting the view to fit to the screen, then choosing Chrome's option to Print / Save to PDF. Not as graceful as having the printing capability built into NetPath, but it's available immediately.

If airfare goes down after booking, you should get a refund. It's happened for me--but only upon asking ahead of time. That can also apply to hotels, car rentals, tour packages, etc.

Signing up for UX is a great way to provide input on new products. If you haven't done this, you've missed one avenue to make a difference.

Google Cloud facility and resource growth may benefit their bottom line, and will likely facilitate increased dependence on the cloud. If you were an individual, or organization, or nation who does not have pleasant plans for "the free world", what better way to impact it than targeting these kinds of resources. We really…