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I wish I could take credit for this oldie, but I didn't write it. It's worth sharing here for your enjoyment: "If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!…

Let's consider adjusting it slightly. We should never had to add custom information into NPM for it to be displayed--if we already have that information within our nodes. A comment, an entry in the snmp-server location line, the node's hostname--any of those types of things should be something Solarwinds can discover and…

A119. What a story. Why am I not surprised someone came up with that ridiculous idea. I'm often reminded of little male lizards flicking their throat flaps up and down when I hear of the posturing of countries with W.o.M.D. At least the lizards won't cause the destruction of the Earth with their throat flapping.

NIce! Were you able to reassemble the parts back into working hardware? That's the second challenge, after discovering "How does it all come apart?" I was lucky enough to have been given some very large console / living room radios and a broken washing machine and dryer for dissection. Reassembly was never part of the…

In the early 2000's I had an all-Nortel network, and their Enterprise Switch Manager automatically mapped and displayed every Nortel product on the network with beautiful maps. Better still, the product was bundled with other functionality that enabled you to find a VLAN and automatically have every switch and port that…

If your experience is similar to mine, the key to resolving this lies in identifying the actual ID your organization uses with Cisco. I found my organization has several dozen IDs, and the one that happened to be required for this functionality to become active was associated with a tertiary site, where one of my peers was…

We don't ever call storage "full". Between de-duplication and compression and planned migrations and upgrades to newer/faster arrays and systems and competing brands, there's never "full" anything. "Full" would be a disaster, and we stay at least a year ahead of any resource running out of space. We plan out five years in…

That "May" not be the same Ralphie . . . ;^)

Facing an environment where AI funding is happening, researching is happening, progress is being made: "We're kind of like the dog that caught the car." Uff Da! If you don't have a plan for where you're going, how will you know when you get there?

Oh, GitHub is free? Pardon my jaded-ness, but isn't that what the pusher says about the first hit?

I expect an economic crash focused around the next U.S. presidential election. It'll delay my retiring, sadly.

Bypass the issue entirely and just say "no" to IoT completely. Fads and beautiful advertising don't matter when it comes to your personal and financial security. Frankly, there should've been processes in place to prevent the design and construction of IoT devices. That way there'd be none to sell.

I'm behind Linus Torvald. I hope he's not wrong about MS. You know what they say--"F00l me once . . ."

Nexus anti-jitter / IPSLA BUMP!

My bosses also looked at the Magic Quadrant for justifying elimination or inclusion of products for Proofs Of Concept. After participating in a survey that provided information for the M.Q., I discovered myself disillusioned about using that as a resource for decision making in the future.

I'm not sure why Linux being used more in the cloud is news. I think we all understood it was more powerful, more efficient, than the alternatives. Frankly, I don't actually care what they use in the cloud if it's reliable and affordable. It happens "under the covers" to me, and I don't have a preference as long as the…

I'm pleased and satisfied that the world is made a little fuller, a little broader, and a little more aware, through an I.T. forum like this that can offer views and receive them without negative comments.

(I still say that if you know what you're doing, if you're trained and using industry recommended deployments, it's probably NOT the network.)

Delivering constructive feedback? That's where training budgets could be increased, getting everyone to be more empathic and compassionate. Just think of the rapid positive progress that could be made if folks weren't belittled or criticized harshly for doing what they thought was right. Constructure and compassionate,…

What an amazing difference exists between that Commodore technology and today's word processors! In an day where a few milliseconds of latency can make the difference between an application working or not, watching your program fire up on Youtube really made me appreciate how little we appreciate "fast" apps and networks.…

I'd also include Prometheus as a competing product that can cross all three areas listed above. https://prometheus.io/

I love how the cloud supposedly improves life, saves money, speeds everything along even better than before ("Hey, Kid--wanna drink some of my 'special' Kool-Aid?"), this articles reveals the cloud is a multi-billion dollar money pit of waste and leveraged opportunities--against your company.

Hearing companies relaxing qualitifcation standards is both encouraging and disappointing. Yes, they need specialized experts--AND they don't want to pay much for those experts. Some companies aren't afraid to risk bringing in people with specific successful projects behind them--that's the encouraging part. But that also…

Banning cash? Probably not constitutional, I'd say. The US Treasury guarantees that cash is acceptable. Every dollar bill says "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". How will Philadelphia get around that? I suspect they don't have a clue about the scope of electronic fraud and money laundering that…

After thinking more about current generation APIs and software, I suspect there are (or should be) ways that network management tools (not only SolarWinds) can make our lives a LOT easier. The most manual thing we should ever be required to do is paste a list or range of IP addresses into an Auto Discovery field and click…

Smart-Bump!

A gut reaction, born of years of dealing with human errors, is to troubleshoot following the OSI model from the ground up. But we assume a lot--that the Data Center Operators and System Admins have done their due diligence before it gets to my team. Having been burned before, I still eliminate Layers 1, 2, and 3 before…

The observations in the Cybersecurity / Boardroom article seem right on. It appears the board members need to see the actual / hidden / secondary costs to their organization and resource flows before they're realize the true costs of doing business online without the right security in place.

I, too, work in I.T. Health Care, specializing in Networking and closely supporting security. I look forward to your thoughts. We've seen so many challenges, some of the worst from IoT, ignorant product vendors, slick advertisers getting access to our staff, and end users thinking "Convenience > Reliability, Security,…