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These are some tough questions for this month's mission. I missed my first two last week for the first time in 6 months. While distraught, I always like a challenge!

$30 million?? Isn't that the same amount they paid Marissa Myers as a goodbye present? Hmm... What comes around...

Hi all. I attended the "NCM Training - Device Templates & Compliance Reports" on April 26th and I don't believe I have received points yet. Reading through previous emails it seems that they usually post in 5 business days. Also, last night, 5/3 8:30pm ET, I attended "Advanced Monitoring with Orion NPM". However, I was not…

My two favorite kinds of books... electronic & free! :-) But seriously, I always like to go back and re-read the fundamentals to either see if I have steered off course over time, or to see if the fundamentals have changed out from under me. Thanks for this!

The pendulum always swings... the Generalist, or JOAT, is on the way out... and then years later is in high demand. Much like all the other familiar trends in IT. (Who else remembers the centralization/de-centralization trends over the years?) The common theme always wins out. Keep your skills current and progress with…

Bump!

You should... see where it takes you. ;-)

I find myself looking torwards, more and more, your weekly posts. A healthy distraction during this tempest of zaniness that is going on right now. As for the midlife IT article. I am now starting to see the early Millennials getting promoted into management positions. Pretty soon some of us may find ourselves working for…

I used to do conferences 15 - 18 years ago (TechMentor in Orlando, anyone?). And at the time I always thought to be sloppy vendor-fests. What you describe what goes at this RSA sounds like its only gotten bigger. Between all the "events", promotions, giveaways, and tchotchkes, how do you claw your way to the meaty…

The NFL is a little bit more liberal with its viewing rights than the MLB. I am still working on cracking the MLB draconian blackout rules before I cut the cord. for my cable TV.

Fortunately for my company we don't have a large internet presence. Being a wine & spirits distributor we do not do direct sales. However, like most companies we rely heavily on internet for business operations. This year my security engineer and I took on the project of wrangling all 30+ firewalls across our enterprise to…

"The Perfect Network" I like that. True, there is no such thing. There is also no such thing as monitoring a network perfectly. I continually chase that carrot. And everytime I think that am close a new and unique incident arises that makes me look dumb and calls into question our monitoring capabilities.

I shared a similar revelation experiencing both end of the spectrum. I attended and presented at SAP's Sapphire in Orlando earlier this year with 35,000+ other customers, vendors, and SAP employees (I even wrote a blog about my experience). And then last week I attended in person THWACKcamp. Both conferences had their…

I am not sure if it was in a previous Actuator or in one of Leon's Word-A-Day where I wrote it.... This generation of kids are having their entire life-story digitized. This goes beyond just medical records and school grades. Library cards (remember how they finally tracked down the villain in the movie Se7en?), gaming &…

I have yet to meet anyone who is excited about this IBM Red Hat purchase. All Red Hat fans agree that they don't want IBM to get their hands on it.

I agree! I see this as a demonstration of "we do this because we can!" I am not an OSHA expert but I have been in an office long enough to know that emergency "always on" lights are an absolute. So there will still be traditional electrical lights installed right along with the POE lights. IMHO lighting should be like…

I hear ya but you should take a step back and appreciate the context. A free site, giving away free money, for free stuff. Sometimes stuff happens. Give the Community Team the benefit of the doubt. They work hard every month to create these missions. Sometimes they throw curveballs. Ohh... and I got it wrong too.

Hallelujah! I am beginning to suffer withdrawal.

1. Bolton is sneaky. Be careful not chase an intentional red herring here... 2. Informed Consent. MLB tackled this years ago with the quote, "...expressed written consent..." Homer Simpson replied with, "I had implied oral consent." Bottom line, the responsibility always falls onto the individual to understand what they…

It is my hope that by then that Sysadmin has been able to free themselves from the earthly binds that is the physical constraints and everything is virtual whether it be public or private cloud. And I dare wish that "versioning" is a thing of the past. Systems Administration has evolved into pure scripting around capacity…

I had my first shawarma at the SAP Sapphire conference this week. At least it said it was shawarma. And it was good. Follow-his question: These professionals that you are visiting, do they have access to the pictures on this thread? Or have we identified some blackmail opportunities? lol

I ask Santa for Solarwinds to monitor SAP every year. SAP's Solution Manager Technical Monitoring is a killer on time and resources. Please! Please! Please! crack this nut!

Discworld.... <happy sigh>

SAP Solution Manager allows me to create automated UX scripts. We use those scripts in conjunction with SolarWinds AppStack monitoring to help expedite the discovery of Root Cause.

As a follow-up, on many of my UX calls when I am asked, "What other feedback do you have for us?" Often times I have suggested that Solarwinds get into the License Mgmt game. Between NPM/SAM/NCM/UDT/Patch Mgr I think most of licenses would be inventoried. Add another module to bring licensing to the presentation layer,…

Thursday bump!

I envision this being a super tough nut to crack for Solarwinds.

My company has deployed about 40 Fortinets across the country because they are "cheap". I have never been a fan of them and apparently neither is Orion. lol! I haven't checked recently but for the longest time SolarWinds couldn't do much with them without heaps of user customization.

ACES!!!

Christmas BUMP. We just switched to SCCM and I am coming across this time and time again. Really frustrating