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I never used HP OpenView, but I did get exposure to several of the Computer Associates applications. While they were probably good if you were managing data centers all across the globe I was trying to use them in a single data center - talk about unnecessarily overly complicated. I've got to say that with our company…

Hmmm, the ThwackShop is down with "Great things are coming" - Bacon laptop case it highlighted in this post - Hmmm

Always looking to improve my Orion environments and my personal skills

I met a few back at a Boston SWUG and really enjoyed getting to know them. It adds personality and relationship to SolarWinds.

Just imagine how embarrassing it will be to blue screen in public.

I spent a couple of years working for a state government - I won't say what state, but currently, they are busy cleaning up their downed palm trees. The one thing I noticed there was that the stereotype "lazy state worker" was true - BUT, that was about 1/2 of the workers, the other 1/2 more than made up for the lazy half.…

Very good article. Communications is very important, but especially the military must have multiple methods/channels to prevent disruption of "services."

For me one of the biggest features of SDN is the ability to monitor and control traffic at the port level. it's great to have layer 7 firewalls and application aware routers and IDS and IPS and all the other things, but they are points in line. With all of those systems everything in a broadcast domain - for example - are…

My church in OKC does a lot of site video and it adds so much excitement. Great to see the SolarWinds name out there in many venues.

Lot's of parts and pieces of the Log puzzle. What to log, what to keep, what to alert on, how to log, how to review, where to store things, how to store things. But the biggest of all is who is going to consume that information and turn it into value. Logging is necessitated by audits, laws and regulations, but using that…

Thank you again, good information.

The Killington Ski resort is supposed to be one of the best in the country - and they employ a world renown coach. Unfortunately you have missed the changing of the leaves, but it's still a very beautiful area. We may be hiring some systems and/or network people early next year - hint!

@kmillerusaf @ZibaK Absolutely agree. The contest are great fun, educational and the team that develops them are professional, helpful and ready to help. If I complain at all it's in my head - you know those "Really, I missed that? Jumping to conclusions again are we?" That said that missions are optional and if you decide…

Legacy pros bring with them a ton of experience. The key is to leverage your experience and not stay in the past. Be willing to learn and do new things. Adapt.

Congrats ChrystalT​

I use custom properties to try to get SolarWinds to be the "single point of truth" within a network.

I've been doing this since before networking was really a thing. I always find humor in those "no one will ever need" or "this cannot get any faster" type of statements. I remember an often mis-quoted statement from Bill Gates saying that no one would ever need more than xyz megabytes of RAM. And modem manufactures stating…

It's so hard to judge value and predict the future. I have a relative that lived in Miami, when visiting other relatives in the Melbourne Florida area (Right after the Apollo program had ended) she wanted to purchase land - as an investment. At that time she found beach front property for $100 per acre and had $5000 to…

Very nice over view of Orion platform.

Very nice and well written. I do a lot of this stuff and the custom html is very handy - once you get a handle on it.

I've avoided coding - I can do it, but it's not my "cup of tea." But, more and more coding in some form or other is becoming almost a necessity for any area of IT.

This is one of those areas where you can see it as either a carrot or a stick. If you see it as the stick - which most do - you try to comply to prevent a punishment/penalty/embarrassment etc. However, I prefer to look at it as a carrot - I see audits as opportunities for someone outside of my organization and set of eyes…

Once again another great blog from adatole​. I love the writing style and your tongue in cheek attitude on this one. We all have our "things" for me I'm a car guy. I collect 1/18th scale Porsche and VW models. I have a Forza racing simulator with 3 screens, surround sound, racing seat, wheel and pedal set and soon to…

IT security is very exciting, it's growing and very high pay potential. But then the down side is that your job is on the line all the time. It's a great field if you like the challenges and constant change. Very good article. Thanks for your thoughts.

Interesting article. Security is such a major issue. It used to be that you had to be careful for yourself and your possessions. Kind of limited access to both. Now we are digital and not just spread all over the place, but also accessible from everywhere. How do you truly secure yourself in so many places.

True and where would you hang the giant take out ribs.

Been there - Done that. And the picture is soooo appropriate. Guess you shouldn't have made it so, without a little more thought

Great post scuff​ I've been doing this a long time and these tools are finally coming of age. I remember when management would say "Why can't we have the users reset their own passwords" so I'd dig for the tools to make that happen, present the costs and management would respond "We have a help desk = they can reset…

Money seems to be a driving force in discussions such as this. Yes, AI will save money, but at what cost. If you are only talking about automating the processes already in place on a network the automation will take the place of people doing tasks. Oh yes, the pitch will be that if we get all of this automated then staff…

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