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I can sympathize with that--it sounds all too familiar to me. For me, maybe it has something to do with responding to too many fires at night, not receiving the training appropriate to support the new technologies, not being allowed to provide good advice to decision makers--through not being trusted because I didn't have…
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8 Lessons: Things change, folks promote good ideas, and not so good ones. I'm not seeing anything great about predictions yet. Gartner isn't the all-knowing resource I used to think it was. But they got big buy-in without appearing to have done any of the testing or reviews in-house, looking like they rely only on the work…
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Poor Georgia. All caught up in knee-jerk reactions, unable to understand the cause of the root problem. By their logic, Sheriff Matt Dillon would have had to put himself behind bars everytime he made the night rounds in Dodge City, due to rattling the door knobs, as part of his job, to confirm storekeepers remembered to…
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I agree that keeping it simple keeps it simple. Yet I like having all the data available, so my team can more quickly associate symptoms with causes and then work on correcting those causes. I'm most interested in your statement "Monitoring overload can lead to overly complex systems that, in turn, may create conflicting…
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Now you're talking my language. I studied this exact technology back in engineering school in the 1970's, and the result was earning a four-year B.S. degree in Photographic Engineering Technology. The long notes I took about densitometry, sensitometry, cyano-argento dyes, adsorption (not "absorption"), and the effects of…
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Is SW still big in Ireland? Some of my favorite memories of Tech Support conversations have been with folks from that office. Knowledgeable, considerate, professional, and prompt to respond to questions and requests for help.
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I've seen security solutions applied to file sharing that are effective, but Draconian. They effectively shut down file sharing's convenience, and require different access solutions and security protocols. This can reduce a company's output dramatically, and the impact I've personally observed is good people eventually…
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If only we were allowed to ware or display product swag!
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Please let us know what you feel is not supported already. I have Catalyst 9300's, 9400's, and 9500's being monitoring by NPM and backed up by NCM and tracked with UDT. What features aren't working for you that are snmp-based?
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Thank you for the tips on the hidden Windows 10 Move To and Copy To commands!
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I'm still wanting this . . . Major Unreasonably Ridiculous Bump! German Speed Bump - YouTube
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I'm not surprised Google & Amazon have many more folks working from home. I work for a hospital system and virtually everyone in our I.T. department who had an office or a cube was sent home. It's a change of policy forced on us by doing the right thing and isolating from COVID-19 to help ensure our hospitals wouldn't be…
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I confess to being confused by today's Test Environment output. It looked like the information didn't match the question's options; I had to look at it a long time, and then make a guess about the intent of the question. From the screen shot I made, there are MULTIPLE latency measurements between WESTEXMBX01v and…
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That's an excellent example. As a frequent camper / fisherman / boater, I have relied more on web sites that allow me to specify locations for weather forecasts. Yet even they may say "30% chance of rain between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.". Having watched the weather radar for the area during that time, it's often fair to say that…
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Question 11 is a perfect way to filter out those who simply perform an Ctrl-F and answer based on the results. When we see all the multiple-choice answers are present on the page, and the question uses radio buttons instead of check boxes, now we have to analyze how there could only be one true answer. We must read more…
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I'd like to say The Wonders were more true to their genre, but I'm just not into the clean-cut boy-band today, I guess. I'll take Stillwater for their onscreen performance, even though the lead guitar actor couldn't accurately mime vibrato. I think they outdid Spinal Tap, too. Stillwater.
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Self-Driving Vehicles Tested In Live Cities? I'm cautiously optimistic. I see an opportunity for a lot of good to come from this. But it hasn't been ready for prime time so far . . . https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US%3AIE-Address&biw=1680&bih=941&q=%22self+driving+vehi… Self-Driving Trucks…
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Your story reminded me that, no matter how right our opinion is, how strong our facts our, we in I.T. remain at the bottom of the ladder, and must provide guidance and advice, but still do what administration and customers demand. When you wrote "If it has knobs . . ." I was reminded of this old one from the Navy: 'If it…
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Exactly, silverbacksays. A "mal-person's" time is best spent targeting Cloud services and their communications. The return on investment is much greater there. Another reason for avoiding depending on, and trusting, the ASP's collectively calling themselves "The Cloud".
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As a Net Admin, I agree with the troubleshooting flow. It seems other departments may not be as well informed as mine about their products--because I use Orion and they don't? But it's often the case the network gets blamed. Later, when we've proven the network's good (and wasted too much time proving it), we may find out…
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You'll get no disagreements from me. A small number of my learned experiences on the topic of documentation: A great network Visio diagram of the current network's layout is key. The more granular the detail, the easier the troubleshooting. Excellent documentation, with revision and version information, in a highly…
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The proof is in the documentation. Even if someone is consistently following a best practice, if that work isn't documented and required by policy, where's the ability to prove it's being done the right way, every time, by every person. Nice article!
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I'm just back from a Cisco Tech Day in Minneapolis, where I heard your concerns in detail in multiple specialty departments. Where before it was acceptable/standard to assign VLAN's and use CLI src/dst/ports to contain security, the Cisco world has moved onto full Netflow-based flow security. ACI and IWAN, DMVPN and…
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I've been in that exact situation too many times. Although I never was left speechless over a simple minuet while at work, despite the fact that I've heard some dandies! (Please forgive my mild tease--I make all-too-many typos myself!) At least you learned the first support person was confused; imagine someone thinking…
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I modify alerts without custom properties so my team stops receiving them. But being able to use custom properties WOULD be smart and appreciated!
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Generally the best solution there has been clearing cache & cookies & trying again, or using a different browser or a different computer to log back into thwack and retry the option.
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Agreed. As a Network Analyst, anything that makes it into my Inbox as a trouble tickets has to be diagnosed from the OSI model. Once I can prove L1, L2, and L3 are working, then I can reassign to DBA's, Server Admins, End User Platform Support, Applications, Communications Platforms, Security, etc. And NPM makes that MTTI…
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The word for today is modified: "supercalifragilisticexpiali-BUMP-cious". A Solarwinds long-term data warehouse that would allow us to track trends and statistics over five and ten years would be extraordinarily good and wonderful.
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This feature would be SO useful to us in NCM!
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I like to imagine the power from a PMF (Personal Mister Fusion) would also be available to provide stability and inertia against the recoil of a rail gun. Without it, I can see someone holding a rail gun and firing it, only to have it torn out of their arms, or having their entire body thrown backwards at rail speeds, and…
