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Regarding today (June 27) question/answer choices, I bet it wouldn't be a stretch for VNQM to monitor the weather. Certainly NPM can do it with the right hardware on the outside of the building, and network connectivity to it, and snmp enabled on it. Even better: if VNQM could directly associate changes in the weather with…
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Monty Python - Spam - YouTube
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You asked "Can it be fixed?". I say "no, it can't." At least not without changing human nature. Networking, applications, and security are all too complex, too much a "house of cards" implementation to be able to "fix." Particularly when you realize everything is built without rigorously enforced standards for any given…
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I'm not convinced Ticket Master is the solution. Or a fair vendor. Years ago Taylor Swift was coming to a local venue, I knew my daughter would be delighted to see her. I tried to get tickets as soon as they were available through Ticket Master and discovered all had been bought up by robots or professional scalpers.…
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Thank you! It really has made my summer a fun one, I confess. I'm a technophile, and totally willing to lay back with the 250-page manual for this this thing, and also cruise the vendors' sites and blog-o-sphere and read up on how to properly install it and effectively use it. I won't boast about the numbers & sizes, but…
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Thank you, Leon. Is this year's project running differently than last year's? Are Thwack members being assigned a word and submitting their ideas and definitions? Or are you filling in all the words by your own humble self? I was looking forward to being assigned a word, but I'm OK letting others have their day in the…
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That's four MVP's out of fifty-two, carrying graphite. The trend is growing!
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Yours is a good idea, and I can see it saving time and reducing mistakes and frustrations. Until SW implements this good idea, we're sort of left to try to make all of our nodes identical so a standard template can fit all of them. Some things are easy--use the right Custom Properties in each device / category, keep the…
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Bump!
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Agreed--somewhere quiet on the water, surrounded by beautiful pines and rocky points, watching for humps & shoals with fish on them, casting at downed trees. No need for Facebook or cell phones to achieve the kind of inner peace that comes to me from these places. Matching my imagination against nature, a brief struggle, a…
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Yes! Toxic Certainty is not in everyone's best interest. This was a good read, and should open the eyes of folks who don't do their due diligence, and who have closed minds.
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And I automatically referenced the Autopilot on my MinnKota electric trolling motor for my boat. I had to shift tracks, particularly since it's become boating season here in Minnesota, and the fishing opener is this weekend.
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Yes to all of the above. Our powerful devices generate a load of traffic, and it's only with great consideration do we filter out that information--at pain of missing something that could prevent a future outage. But after receiving it all, configuring Orion to handle it correctly becomes the challenge. What can go to a…
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My ASA's that have Firepower modules are treated as ASA's by NPM and NCM and backed up accordingly. FTD is not able to be managed/backed-up by SW to the best of my knowledge. But if someone's doing it, please reach out to me with the details, please.
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Just provide infinite solid-state SAN solutions, auto-upgrading, auto-updating, with 100 GB links on the backside of all servers and robot storage solutions. All secured, all resilient. OF COURSE!
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NCM meets you in between giving hands-on CLI access to a network node and having a user just click a button--if you have NCM. I suspect you could set up NCM user rights to allow them to run canned scripts from NCM to specified nodes. You pre-build the scripts, those users run them on the selected nodes. But once you've had…
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Yaaahhhh . . . I'm not holding my breath on that one. I'd love the idea for densely populated areas--London, Los Angeles, etc. But would we make it to a point where everyone accepted the government telling them where & how they can travel? No more Sunday drives on dirt roads in the country to enjoy the fall leaf…
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As you look at that blank sheet of staff paper, consider one of the many inexpensive apps for transferring musical performance from played notes to paper. I've enjoyed Master Tracks and Band In A Box and their peers from the mid 1990's, all the way up to the state of the art products like Finale. If you can hear it or…
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Radioteacher, your labor of love sounds wonderful and rewarding to the soul. Lest anyone assume there is no value in a broken guitar, I offer this video testimony: Making the most of a broken guitar
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I still am a victim of regular drive-by's, whether IM, e-mail, phone calls, or some line of SA's or DBA's standing in my cube, hoping I'll drop everything and serve their needs over my other "high priority" tasks. I guess that pipe dream of few (or no) unexpected demands on my time will wait until retirement . . .
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I agree with Jfrazier; my organization's history of silo'd expertise limits my ability to get buy-in on a "single pane of glass" tool like the Orion suite of products. I'm making slight inroads, and am hopeful other groups can share in the Solar Winds experience; if I can improve their management view and alerts and…
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Just going back over this old thread, I completed moving the Sidewinders' rule sets onto the new ASA's. I engaged the services of a VAR, and they did a LOT of work. The move was basically trouble-free, with only the expected typos & learning curve issues to deal with. On the other hand, there's so much that Cisco ASA…
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Ah, the old challenge where the mice (IT) have voted to put a bell on the cat (finding budget from Management to accomplish a worthy goal). Who will be able to get the budget? Who will be able to persuade the decision makers that the end result is worth the increase in expense or higher taxes? Modernizing government IT is…
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I'd feel irrationally proud to be someone's "Head-Geek-In-Arms." I think that should be an official H.R. job title. Put an i-Paq running Air Magnet on one side of this guy's belt, and on the other side have a smart phone in a holster, and he might be the embodiment of the title:
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I started getting paid for IT work back in 1979. It's evolved mightily since then, and if you're not interested in learning, if you don't find education about computers, applications, security, and networking (especially when that education might be solely on your own time, on your own dollars) fun and rewarding, well . .…
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What? You'd trust something just because it shows up on the Internet and happens to either coincide with your personal beliefs, or it offends you? And you want to react to it without pause or consideration? Be like Skeptical Cat.
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Might you find time to describe how the report is built so we can attempt to duplicate it? If you were to make screen shots of the report's build pages, we could attempt to follow them and see how it works in our environments. Swift packets, @"snaga" ! Rick Schroeder
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I see your Uhura Zoe Saldana, and raise you my Gamora Zoe Saldana, who will steal the PS4 from your Uhura at the point of her sword!
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I think you have the "obsessive" part down perfectly. And the inability to act on the "compulsive" part, due to not knowing the location of this utility access hole, is the driver for the nightmares. Congratulations for joining the club!
