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How did you resist the urge to talk about the 800 lb. gorilla in the room? Last night's election and the possible impacts on the global economy and digitalization. Or is too soon to go down that path?

Okay, so I had to Google ELK Stack as I had never heard of it before and I thought that this was a ruse. Who could blame me with names like: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Nonetheless... interesting stuff.

I have some poetic justice for Amazon! As for Fathers Day I was treated to Cars 3. I will have an upcoming blog post about it. Several of us old IT folks will be able to relate. Stay tuned!

Great info. You're right, going over 300 metrics to decide which to monitor and measure is a tad bit overwhelming. These are very helpful. Thanks!

"On our way to 1,000" BUMP!

Looks like you guys had a blast at VMworld. I am insanely jealous. I also found an interesting article on Microsoft MVP's... Microsoft's MVP Program Evolves in Unexpected Ways -- Redmondmag.com

Wow!!! I would go for the dinner alone. Unfortunately I am not able to attend. One of these days I am going to meet you guys at a conference. I was so close to meeting Leon earlier this year in DC. I am dying for SolarWinds socks. I have just the sandals to wear them with!!! 

About 10 years ago my wife and I experienced a very traumatic event. It required both of us, at a moment's notice, to take an extended time off from work. Both of our bosses, and companies, were extremely supportive and helpful during this difficult time and we are both eternally grateful for this. We both recognized the…

It's brand new week. Let's bump it!

Interesting content. I need to play around with GNS3 some more as it is on my list of T2D. I've gone through the tutorials already and I recognize the value. Now it is a matter of time...

Came across these simple rules to live by the other day...

I'm in agreement. This three ti-er approach with the costly chassis switch does require re-visitation. The technology has improved so much since this became the de facto standard. ANd you are right, nobody gets fired by choosing a Cisco chassis switch. So it is always the safe bet. But come budget time and the line item…

Should I do a better job of explaining this idea so perhaps I could garner some more votes? Would that help you guys?

Thursday Bump!

We are considering it now. Also, so are the major vendors as I am inundated with cold calls inquiring about our position on SD-WAN. It's the next "Big Thing" for Digitalization! Big Data! DevOps! blah! blah! blah!

Hi! Pete Monaghan! Daily Planet! Thanks for taking my question... Is this survey link the same survey link that was in the last question of March's mission? And a follow-up... If I got that question wrong will taking this survey redeem myself? ;-)

We are in the process of modernizing our Config Mgmt for our network equipment. Some very nice pointers in here. We've had lively discussions over timezones already.

I took coding classes in college. I tried it and failed. I did a 3-day crash course study trying to comprehend Java and after 3 days it wasn't sticking. I was so frustrated I picked my chair up and threw it against the wall. It's legs stuck and the chair hung there. I knew I could never be a coder. I admire your ability to…

Great point on the custom alerting. Alerting & thresholds go hand in hand. Without the customization and intelligence added to the alerting rules you have white noise coming from your monitoring system. Custom alerting is part art and part science. And it can be a fun exercise in the realm of, "What if..." "So what if the…

Pencil me in Skip! I'm ready to play... The calendar is blocked off!

My wish list is simple: 1. More AppInsights: Citrix, SharePoint, for starters. 2. A suitable replacement for FSM. 3. Application-level monitoring for SAP.

During my time in Fed IT the biggest challenge I dealt with was with the legacy app/infrastructure and the snail pace that is the movement of Fed IT. I imagine nowadays it is still pretty much the same, but now IT has to protect those legacy apps as well. ugh! The cost of that app keeps getting more and more expensive.

Obligatory Friday bump!

It gets me every month...

Blame Infrastructure. It is always Infrastructure's fault. Go ahead! Scapegoat them. It's their fault that the resources cannot be limitless. How foolish of anyone to think that developers be responsible with their available resources. ;-)

Sometimes I wonder if it is my fear of a future that I am in control of is what bothers me most. When I was in my 20's I was tuned in... Voracious for knowledge and breakthroughs. I am not that way so much anymore.

I am blessed with tons of storage, so I save the data and rely on Solarwinds default retention thresholds for archiving and purging. As for a horror story on interface monitoring... For our absolute-most-critical-nothing-else-matters Production SAP system, it experienced ungodly slowness during the most critical point of…

So I have looked over the list of contenders... and I take issue with a couple of them. But I will reserve comment until the voting rounds. Let the endless debates rage on!!!!

Identifying root cause is tricky when you are not blessed with the right tools and yo don't have all the visibility yo need. am challenged with this myself. We'll experience performance degradation or bottlenecks and I'll struggle with locating it because a particular switch or network device isn't fully configured fully…

Burn!! I was used to the old mission interface where it wouldn't accept an incorrect spelled answer.