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It seems that Cisco QoS should very nearly be ready for a great GUI and automated scripting, a la ACI. Something intuitive and easy and predictable. Some of the folks I've run into push back against QoS if it means some packets may be dropped--they want ALL their traffic to make it, all of the time, across pipes that are…

Take along a BIG garbage bag. When you get to the convention, if Maria is there at the same time, open that bag up & whirl it over your head, and then seal its neck up tight. You'll be able to bring home your own private portion of The Cloud!

There's a local tradition where folks from the U.S. and Canada boat over to the Kettle Falls Hotel on the first Saturday after July 4. Weather permitting, this involves lots of people, lots of grilled food, beer, live music, lawn games, ice cream, fresh air, and smiles. The hotel is located on the border between Minnesota…

Today's question #16 (January 29, 2018) highlights a shortcoming in Solarwinds' ability to tell us quickly and easily which ports have not been used in X Days, Weeks, Months, or Years. The example test lab's open ports may have been down for a few minutes, or a few years. That's not so critical to know in a test lab, but…

Those cats are hep on freeware. Each time I mention SW they throw up roadblocks at me, despite the fact that my NPM licenses would cover all AIX instances at no charge to those folks. You can lead a horse to water . . .

Ever read Heinlein's Starship Troopers? "Are a thousand unreleased prisoners sufficient reason to start or resume a war? Bear in mind that millions of innocent people may die, almost certainly will die, if war is started or resumed." I didn't hesitate. "Yes sir! More than enough reason." "'More than enough.' Very well, is…

Wow! That's certainly a surprise. Thanks for discovering this and posting it.

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Our Wiki is in Sharepoint's Portal, locked away from other IT groups. I'd like a solution that ties it all into Orion's various areas, with a "public" Orion Wiki that all teams would reference and keep up to date. Is there such product in SW's product line? I can't think of one.

jhandberg​ I ran into that same challenge because my team had set up routers across three states using different Interface names/descriptions for each uplink. I played the bad guy card and made the guys go into every router and change the Interface names so they were consistent. Consistency and cookie-cutter…

I'd like to NOT have to vote for Dewey Cox, simply because the example tune is not my style. But after watching & listening to Spinal Tap, I don't see or hear really musicianship, nor excellent acting. They're even MORE not my style. Besides, voting for Dewey Cox is nigh unto voting for Guardians of the Galaxy or Wreck-it…

I imagine SolarWinds monitoring flood levels, electrical outages, storm damage, wind speeds and directions in one system. Another SW system monitors and alerts on human anguish, lost children/family/friends, injuries, fire, etc. And a benevolent government following SLA and Predictive standards to head off needs from being…

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Put money into training your staff to be part of the solution, instead of part of the problem.

I'll go out on a limb and tentatively mention that I think everyone missed the one item that would have caught and prevented this, or revealed it before it became a problem: Change Management. It's all about sharing the information for every item that might cause a call to the Help Desk, or might cause cycles to be wasted…

I've been separated from pets for nearly 20 years, and I miss 'em! In a few years my wife will retire, and then perhaps the pets will return. Maybe we'll be those people in an RV with a little dog sitting on the arm rest between the front seats of the vehicle. There are LOTS of those out there, and quite a few full-time…

I like all of these! Plus, I offer some advice to improve user experiences even more: Require all web page and applications developers to design/develop by using LAN connectivity equal to the slowest Internet connection speed of any user. If some customer base is only connecting via T1's and your web page developers are…

I agree with you--creating an environment in which a data breach is possible--even easy--should be a criminal offense.

Thanks for the original post. It opened my eyes to some options of which my team is unaware.

It would be so helpful to have the right lists of questions to ask for every project, and for every problem that needs troubleshooting, diagnosis, triage, and remediation. Something that covers all of the wheels that have already been built, and that makes challenges and tasks more effective and efficient. You'd think…

You wrote: " I've helped multiple associates achieve their Masters degrees and advanced certifications in their fields . . ." You're my hero!

I want the time to install & test this. I'm sure I could sell at least two IS Teams on it.

Say it ain't SO! Yes, watching the video takes more time than searching the page's text for the obvious answer. But a person has the opportunity to LEARN so MUCH! Or maybe the video is just white noise or advertising, for your environment. I confess, sometimes I'm like you, and go for the solution that's fastest.

And 8Man is "Hachiman" in Japanese anime, since "8 is hachi". Expand one step further: "man" is 10,000 in Japanese, so "Hachiman" is actually 80,000. ecklerwr1​ receives +1 for sending me down that tangent road.

I've had questions/suspicions about Zoom meetings. It's interesting to read the article about their product and practices.

Does one also audit the security of backed-up information, to ensure it's not accessible by those who are not authorized?

My guess is that most companies who have FTD are aware that its configuration files are not running & startup configs that can be accessed by SSH and managed by downloading them to NCM. FTD does have its own internal backup solution, but it's never going to be as useful for change management and compliance as NCM makes…

Agreed on all points. It's why SIEMs like Splunk and Sumo and Loggly and LogLogic were built. Thank goodness--putting all the parts of the puzzle together--over and over and in new ways--is a job for a machine. Whose output we must evaluate and take seriously and react to appropriately.

Quantum Supremacy seems a moving target--one which we may not care about because it IS moving. When "normal" computers become increasingly efficient and less expensive every second, why worry about whether an artificial milestone has been achieved? One might extrapolate this into a future using reductio ad absurdum and say…