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Do you have opportunity for cross training someone else, so the business can go on if you were sick or had an accident? Can you have an interruption-free vacation? I'm feeling some sorry going your way, for being overloaded and understaffed. Is it all burn out and no stress-less time for you?

When I read "get these bits of code and/or containers into production far more rapidly", I felt a red flag go up. Another red flag jumped up when I read that DevOps must deploy these parts and pieces to the appropriate places, ensure that they get pushed to the correct location, track them, and remove them--all with…

Agreed. I work around this by generating a report of nodes and importing it into a spreadsheet that highlights EOS by model. Not as graceful a solution as one would expect SolarWinds to provide. Of course one could always use the built-in Report called "End of Support Devices" to see information. However, at least in my…

Cool Clock! Not inexpensive, either, if I correctly recognize the components. I've still been blocked from inserting / uploading images because I've provided over a thousand images during the last sixteen years. Sigh. Sadness for me ( @"yumdarling" ) I have hopes that I'll soon be able to upload again, and the fact of the…

Adding bumps occasionally doesn't hurt--particularly if it draws this feature request to the attention of more Thwack members, AND if they give it a Kudo / thumbs-up. It seems that, sometimes, good ideas aren't incorporated into future releases unless and until those ideas have a very-large number of positive votes. I'm…

IMHO, removing tracking-ware from app stores is insufficient action. The browser manufacturers should provide automatic removal of such extensions--it should be the norm rather than an option a person could try to learn about and leverage. Further, apps stores should be actively searching for and discovering tracking…

I was amazed the first time I saw TAC do that. No matter how many certs you may get, there's always need for training and refresher courses.

A person could have better luck calculating where an object would be X days/weeks/months/years from now, and using a photo torpedo timed to intercept it far in the future.

Is it time to start sending out resumes yet? In my case, I couldn't take PTO for 18 months, while I was the only Network Analyst for 11,000 users in a hospital system about a dozen years ago. Since that time I've grown my staff to six Analysts and a Technical Network Manager, and we've contracted several times with hired…

"Get Out Of Jail Free" cards are played to literally keep you out of trouble. When something really bad happens, if you can pull up the documentation that proves you provided the right advice, and that Management ignored it, the CYA has been accomplished, and now Management or Accounting or Finance or the C-Level have to…

How many Thwacksters are there now? 20,000? 300,000?

Much appreciated!

Good old SuperStack II switches! I liked their 3300's. But I came through their entire product line, starting out with 10 Mb managed hubs used to build computer labs in a public school system across 33 buildings. The Desktop Switch was the ugly one for a public school's budget, running between $1500 and $2000, where our IT…

Cool.

My Cisco ACS server was not reliable, and I was relieved when I was able to migrate all TACACS to Cisco ISE, which has not had any problems in the last two years. I'm happy to hear your ACS experience is better than mine. Our ACS was hanging, preventing remote access into switches & routers, preventing remote management of…

It makes me wonder if anything with "Confidential" in its name isn't just targeting itself needlessly for those who are less well-morally-oriented . . . I'll also be interested to learn about compromises and vulnerabilities with "Confidential Computing" that come through an unexpected vector like Blueborne. New BlueBorne…

Yes, this remains your dream job, I think. Although I was reading some recent info from the manufactures of RED, the high-resolution digital movie camera solution, where they berated big display shows like Consumer Electronics and others around the world. It seems RED staff members (who make the decision about whether to…

INTERESTING! Would it be fair to think of the triangle as not having "solid" sides, and that a path could be found through it, to the other side (goal), as long as the traveler adopted the appropriate process through implementing what was required by Information Security?

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I bet you could capture all the routers' names and uplink ports/interfaces' names via SDK and then use the output to create a report, or use the SWQL as your custom filter in a report. Standardizing is good--but it only works when it works for your needs. Sometimes it's better to have some inconsistencies to make other…

You wrote: "The best compliment for an IT team is invisibility." I agree, if your team does its work so well that no one know they're present and needed means you're doing the support & planning part of your job well. Let's hope Management doesn't decide your team isn't worth keeping anymore, since everything magically…

Agreed, again. Documentation and labeling is where it's at. Best practices everywhere. And you don't get there without training budget, and spending that budget on EVERYONE equally. All it takes is ONE person to miss the understanding, to NOT get the memo, to not understand policy and best practices, and you end up with a…

I learned of this via a National Public Radio broadcast via their show/series called "Snap Judgement". Here's a link to the story, antonio.lopez​: The Great Paper Caper | GQ Frank Bourassa on how he counterfeited $250 million - Business Insider The Public Radio show is here, and I recommend it--it's well-made, highly…

Drones in the skies, watching us to protect us from violent individuals? It sure sounds like the pound of cure. Where's the ounce of prevention? Not more prisons, but better schools, population controls, better ethics and training, more altruism . . .

Being asked "who are SolarWinds' competitors?" doesn't seem to make sense to for "for" or "against". It doesn't really have a "yes" or "no" answer? Maybe a more helpful solution would be to make it a question? "What are the products that compete with SolarWinds? Please list them below." And then scrape the info and put it…

NPM, NCM, NTA, VNQM, IPAM, UDT are the ones I work with frequently. But I remember we had Virtualization tabs early on, and I removed them since my team doesn't manage VM, and the SA's use NAGIOS and other tools to watch/manage the VM environment. I suspect all I need to do is add the Virtualization tab back on, get the…

The newspaper movie advertisement statement took me back to the 70's and 80's. When I was a kid in the 60's I lived in small town with only one theater, one screen, and it only showed one showing per night. And that was only in the evenings on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. If a movie seemed popular there could be a…

It's not exactly that--I'd actually LIKE to see a "bad code" message at the top when I come in the morning, if it meant I could get the root problem corrected. Treating a symptom by rebooting NPM, or rebooting any other server, is never the right answer--it's just a temporary work-around until the root cause can be…

It sounds like you're not the only one experiences challenges with Well-Fargo at present:

First and foremost, I'm not a SQL admin or any kind of a DBA. I catch a nice freshwater fish once in a while, but that's it. I DO have DBA's I trust, and they shared this info with me: SQL will use dynamic memory by default. As queries are executed over time, SQL will try to cache the results and consume memory up to some…