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I've been right in the middle of the same situation over the past month or so. Remote site is having horrible network performance which ended up being a combination of things. Both my NMS and netflow I was able to pin-point the issue pretty quick (no QoS on phone ports and old line cards being over-saturated). I dont know…

1) Our team is focused on all things networking from servers to VMware to network. Some of us (like me) are skilled in specific areas but we are all expected to help out on any issue. Everyone on our team has their area of focus. 2) I have 3 CCNPs and am working on my CCIE. I also have a Windows XP MCP . My intention is to…

I dropped our topology in my last job into Atlas and found it pretty good. Didnt play with the dynamic mapping/linking feature much. If that was solid I could see its use. I know this is SW forum but there are other tools out there such as NetBrain. Anyone ever use them? thoughts?

There are a ton of things my NMS gives me visibility into that I would not get otherwise. For network: -link traffic patterns, peaks, failures and times. -mem/CPU usage and creep -Syslog/Traps for general health and goings-on For Server: -CPU/Mem/Volume usage and creep -Service status and health -General load and usage of…

One of my past jobs used conferences as a way to motivate and spark growth. Each year a handful of teammates were allowed to go to one conference of your choice. Every year it rotated and you attended a conference about every 2-3 years. To me this was a type of reward for my hard work and also allowed me to get out and see…

Yeah once sticker-shock and budgets come into play, the game plan changes.

Excellent point!

It will take hunger and drive any day!

I think NV is still a ways off for the typical enterprise environment and their data centers. Hosting services and cloud providers will see the change quickly I think. I think for the enterprise we will see a continued shift to virtualized control plane like Cisco VSS and their new Cisco Instant Access which is basically…

So whiteboards seem to be pretty popular and I know I use my a ton. Anyone out there used the whiteboard paint for your walls? I put in a request to have a couple walls painted in my area but I dont think its going to fly.

Yeah cookie-cutter is exactly what I was talking about.

Oh network Wweathermap I completely forgot about that tool! It was used at an old job for that reason. Very simple, to the point and effective.

I've told my wife I wanted to do this to my home office and I dont think she is taking me very serious

Those are good points. One of the things I have started doing recently is actually backing off the amount of detail in each diagram. This helps keep the diagrams up-to-date and acurate longer. Things like removing interface number and smaller details on all the links that can change. These smaller details to me are better…

Food for thought. Will developers jump the divide, learn networking and do network automation or will network admins learn programing and do it? Im with you 100%. I fear a Dev team taking over network operations and deploying automation without really having a handle on networking beyond what they learned in their CIA…

interesting on different views from different parts of the world. I think if HA is not a priority then full visibility and alerting needs to be rock solid.

I completely agree, any company that will build training and education into the weekly/monthly schedule is doing it right. More often than not though "there is not enough time for training" and you have to carve the time off yourself or do it on your own time.

HA is not as big an issue for a lot of companies that feel they need 5 9's. I think these companies will do just as good if not better if they utilize a simple redundant setup and have solid documentation and procedures for outages. 

Just like presentations, Its all based on who your audience is.

I think we have all been there. It seems to fall back on the network guys more than anyone. If you dont know what the issue is its either a) the network or b) the firewall One thing that I have run into in the past is server people, network people and APPS people all want different tools that provide different things. So…

"SDN is a cool idea and I can see some application in hosting environments, but how many other environments are dynamic enough to really get any use out of it?" This is a big talking point to a lot of people which circles back to my main theme. What level of complexity does each DC really need. Keep in mind also, DC is a…

Found a full version of SQL server 2008 Enterprise. After getting SQL server up and running NPM installed just fine. Thanks everyone for the tips.

Ive tried both ways to authenticate with the same errors. I have not tried the other tools to connect to the server as I dont have access to them at the moment. I'll try downloading sql express 2008 along wiht mgmt studio tonight and see what happens tomorrow.

Is this going to be easier to just demo with server 2003 or come up with a copy of SQL server 2008? I was really hoping install would have been a lot smoother. I do appreciate everyones help on this though...

You will have to excuse me Im a very rusty Windows admin and who has spent the last 5 years on Cisco gear and Linux servers :| Im not sure what account NPM is trying to use at DB creation as it never ask me what to use. I am only prompted for an account in the configuration wizard when Im asked what DB to connect to. here…

yeah i did a full re-install of IIS without luck. I then did a complete reinstall of NPM with a new DB, along with a new IIS instance. No luck still. Im wiping the VM and reinstalling 2003 R2 so I can get past this.

Thanks for the info guys! I did a seperate install of SQL 2005 express and it installed fine. Looks like the NPM still errors out on the DB creation in the configuration wizard. UAC has been disabled and I set no SA password for the SQL install. Could it be 2008 R2 not liking SQL express 2005?