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Every DR exercise I am starting at square 2. Usually because at least one IT service has been added or significantly upgraded. And rarely do these services exist in a bubble. The are dependencies aplenty. These need to be rooted out and audited.

To follow up rschroeder​ if anyone thinks that it is okay to manage your network "In the Past" and "Live in the Present" you are walking a dangerous line of personal career growth limitation and the inability of said network to meet the demands of new technologies.

"...do we have a single framework that we can use to handle the deployment and management of the lot?" I have to imagine at some point the application layer comes into play. These aren't just servers running bases OS'es. SQL, SAP, middleware, etc. These have to inflict deviations into the single framework as well as, at…

Interesting points. Here is our basic RCA template. I would be curious to see others: Executive Summary I. Technical Details - Ticket #'s, outage times, etc. II. What We Did To Fix It III. What We Are Going To Do To Make Sure It Doesn't Happen Again IV. Service Improvement Projects (complete with ticket/project #'s)

A fellow TRS-80 pal? Cool... DId you ever play this classic TRS-80 game? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/ww9ew9dvfqmslhf/VolcanoHunter/public/index.html

Good point. In many situations when I first walked in the door I realized that they did not. Since I am not technical, nor do I have admin access to any of our systems (except Solarwinds) I made it a point to improve processes and procedures in many different facets of IT. One area was extracting the value of our…

Sadly, there is only so much "security" that can be applied to file security without it becoming obtrusively overbearing. Between internet fileshares, personal emails, thumbdrives, and others, files can float away as freely as dandelion seeds in the wind. Training, repeated training, awareness, compliance, controls,…

I love that Venn diagram. Being a process junkie and an efficiency expert I have been working on my answer for when asked, "What's your dream job?" My initial response is: "To be sitting on a pier in the Caribbean cutting bait waving to the boats as they leave in the morning and waving to them as they return in the…

It was a dumb question.

After being a fed contractor for a couple of years, and bearing witness to gross waste in IT spending, I am now a huge fan of centralizing IT in the federal government and appointing a CIO.

Thursday bump!

I take some comfort knowing that the Feds aren't on the bleeding edge of technology, but are near the cutting edge. My time contracting for the feds, pre Y2K, I saw a lot of obsolescence. And it was concerning at the time.

I'm a Process Junkie. I believe in that you define the process (aka the "Business Rules"), then you train the people on the process and/or the software.

Welcome all to the Networking Monitoring & Management Online Support Group! We can all commiserate with the pains of: being de-prioritized, overlooked, squeezed budget, singled out for "all of those alerts", Shadow IT, etc. We are here for each other. It's a thankless job, we are blamed for way too many issues. But they…

As a manager I still can't get over the fact I have overheard other managers, and above, say, "This employee is too slow/ineffective/under-performing/etc. I want to get rid of him'her and get another one." They take the same approach with employees as they do with their laptops. Disposable...

I am currently fighting the uphill battle of Service Owners taking things for granted now that the applications are running in the Cloud. They thing bandwidth, resources, disk space, etc. are infinite. Ugh! I am trying to convince them that they are not. And when I do they are fine with being reactive...

Has anyone had success setting up log monitoring, and alerting, for VMware as to when a new guest is created, stopped, deleted, password changed, guests moved, etc. I was never able to get this done in VMware 5 because the logs did not clearly state the action. Escalating to VMware themselves was no help.

This Twitter password hack has not been made as big if a deal as I would have thought. Remember when Trump's Twitter account was de-activated for 8 minutes last year by a terminated contractor and how that set social media, and the news media, ablaze? Could you imagine if Trump's twitter was compromised for only 2 minutes…

Maroon 5 played this gig? Seriously? And I missed it? Now I have to turn in my Maroon 5 Fan Club VIP card! Anyway... Great write-up! You captured the communal and social spirit of Cisco Live superbly. Hopefully some of the pointers we Thwacksters gave you a while back about enduring conferences paid off? This Cisco Live…

In my honest, humble, and all be it, stupid, opinion I foresee the SD? craze as the next step in the evolution of freeing ourselves from the constraints of commodity hardware. Data will become nebulous clouds just "floating" across the hemispheres. Physical network, and power, connections will be ancient history. The IoT…

I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all solution here. I think the environment, maturity of the organization, whether or not the individual will be joining a team or will be responsible for creating one, and other pertinent details weigh in on the decision. With many hiring decisions I always say, "Go with your gut!"

"Storage is the number one catalyst behind application failures." Really? I was not aware that this is the case. I have to imagine that the "failures" are related to I/O?

I really enjoyed these articles, especially "Report." My current environment doesn't emphasize the importance of reporting on IT infrastructure nearly enough. I am on island with my reports.

I wrote a blog in 2017 on Thwack about why movies like The Net drove me nuts. Good read, but I'm biased: "IT" Portrayed in Hollywood 

The Lawnmower Man is a terrible movie and a terrible Stephen King adaptation. But my buddy and me have been drawing from it for decades. Decades, I tell you! "Access denied! Access denied! Access denied!" Access... Granted!" youtu.be/9Z4VO0wbbG0

Dumb question from a dumb infrastructure guy with 20+ years of infrastructure background. Why couldn't it have been called "OpsDev"? Why does Dev have to be first? Yea, I have an inferiority complex. So what?

Tools, like NCM, are extremely powerful for network audits. But they are not the end all be all. So be careful with that. Know your KPI's and remember, GIGO! You need to make sure you put good data into them.

You said, "It's okay to lie as long as you're telling the truth." Not to pick nits but your examples are more of keeping secrets in confidence than they are lying. I have lied many times in my 20+ years as an IT professional. I was never happy about it and I don't like doing it. I have never been asked or told to lie by my…

Thanks for the wrap-up and the call outs on my submissions. :-) I encourage people to click on the Twitter link and read through some of the responses to Jake Tapper's original tweet. There are some famous people responding on how being rejected by their first college choice turned out to be a blessing. "Life finds a way!"

I gave up tying shoes by using lacelocks. yea, I'm lazy. Nike hasn't had the best month after its shoe ripped apart on the foot of the NCAA's best player in years during a nationally televised rival game in which the player hurt his knee as a result. Nike could really use a win.