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Wow. I read the comments here today (Monday, April 9) first thing in the morning and resolved to come back later in the afternoon and see if anyone had cleaned up the questions and answers. After reading the question and answer options present at 2 20 p.m., it was obvious what the intent was. In Missions, it can pay to…

A configuration is reality, not policy. It is our responsibility, as administrators who are required to interpret the intent of policy, to implement that intent in the configuration. Thus we change policy and intent into reality: a configuration. (You won't find THIS out in a meme search)

Canadian "fat" money: It'll always be something. Save the animals. Then it'll be save the plants. What's next--save the minerals/elements/electrons? Oh, wait--those have already been done. What must we do when we can't use anything to make something new? Perhaps we'll have to stop wanting "new" things, and only use…

That sounds like bacon-on-the-hoof to me. Particularly if they're feral and the law allows or encourages harvesting them at any time.

I can come up with an original Stupid Dad Joke in no time flat when either of my children make ignorant statements. It's a sad superpower to own and use, since it alienates one as soon as it leaves the mouth. As with Peter Parker, with great power comes great responsibility. Forty-one years being with the same woman have…

That depends on your definition of "beat". One fighter can beat another without one dying. My impression is this is a battle bracket, and battle is in the traditional physical fight format. Between the two, a basilisk seems to have the advantage in size and strength. Further, with eyes capable of incapacitating a foe, all…

Thanks for this!

No "Day 21: Love" entry? adatole​, Air Supply - All Out Of Love - YouTube

It's good advice. Now if I could just get all the silos onboard for SAM & DPA . . .

This seems to point to a logical future destiny of Orion products and their evolution to include The Cloud. And I like it! Of course, I've not investigated the pricing structure, and I'd love to be able to provide cloud monitoring via my already-paid-for Orion suite components. Wouldn't it be great to pay $5 and be able to…

That's not a Boston Dynamics Atlas robot doing parkour. It's Arnold Schwarzenegger via CGI. Obviously! Please?

Triggering actions based on NetFlow data? Sweet!

Hmm. I love working with switches, routers, firewalls, and especially Orion products! But if there's that much demand for Security Professionals, it seems there should be greater incentives offered to folks who leave their old jobs and become CISSPs.

The thing about resolutions races is they might inadvertently embarrass SW Tech Support's online help--or even call-in help--if the Thwack Community responded faster with appropriate solutions. I wouldn't want anyone feeling badly because some Thwack people have both skills AND a little free time. I've heard Thwack…

I recall there being an acceptable use case with Solarwinds that allows you to install the Engineer's Toolset on an NPM server as part of owning NPM. Check into that and see if it applies in your case. Maybe you'll find good news!

Bump. If this isn't already a thing, it SHOULD be!

We need look no further than Youtube for an example of folks wanting to impress the boss with the latest technology: "The Machine That Goes Bing!" Monty Python - Hospital Sketch - YouTube

"Why?" * Pork barrel spending * Cronyism * Ignorance of the problems Equifax has (hard to imagine no one's heard about this yet) * Politics * Process over intelligence (which I also like to refer to as "The Death of Common Sense"). * The contract is needed, a process and clock are in play, there's no way for the GAO and /…

I'm impressed. It also makes my head hurt. And SW should've built this right into the entire process. Kudos to you!

I'm interested in the prizes, but more so in the actual challenges. Hopefully we'll be forced to learn & think & use the demo environment (instead of simply clicking a link & hitting Ctrl+F to search for a term).

No, that's only the LEFT door that can be opened by pulling. Of course, it has no handle . . .

It's nice that Solarwinds can automatically run a script pointing at the Active ASA when the Standby ASA appears down. It brings the standby ASA up right away, and I have no action to take. But what a waste of technology and product! Cisco should fix this bug, rather than us having to treat the symptom with automation.…

Exactly!

Worse still: * Thinking you have everything, but you don't * Having everything, but not understanding some portion of it * Not having the ability to alert when baselined performance changes

I love that this is available, that someone has taken the time to build it properly, and that someone else has also taken the time to show us how to deploy it. It's one of many things that help Thwack make Solarwinds the right solution for us.

Wow. "Cloud Native." It was probably inevitable. I don't know what they could possibly do to gain my trust, and therefore my dollars. Their solution might only be leaving me with no option for computing and information than subscribing to the cloud. At which time I'll pull out the night crawlers and my fishing pole and sit…

I'll be glued to this screen for this one!

I use the Thwack pack every day. I've done well without the cooler/warmer. Not to mention those are specifically forbidden (by management) from being installed in my work environment. It has to do with liability, circuit breaker overloads, and food / liquids in the work areas (causing short circuits / equipment damage and…

That's a great example. Here's one of my own that's parallel to yours: In the early 2000's we used an internal Fax system to get prescriptions from providers to the hospital pharmacy. An application failure caused the faxes to not make it to the pharmacy and care providers were very concerned that patients might not have…

Sadly today's question's hint was unavailable. The video is unavailable: Equally bad, the slides are unreachable at work due to my company blocking access to "Personal Network Storage and Backup" sites for security reasons: Are there other options to view the hints, wabbott​?