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I believe this is the correct link for today's survey: Have You Taken a Virtual SolarWinds Academy Class Before? 

Yes, please! Our client's core network is 100% Alcatel, and currently we do monitoring of VLANs by monitoring the IP interfaces we've created for them. Having native VLAN monitoring support for Alcatel would be much better, since that way we can pull the whole table and not just the VLANs with logical interfaces. +1 from…

My Flowetry Submission: Flow Disruption God made the network; Satan, the loathed engineer gave us spanning tree.

Hope I was one of the early birds!

I think the 11th's question has an issue... I definitely read the question right and counted correctly... @"yumdarling" ?

@"rob.collins"and everyone else... read the first paragraph carefully in the hint for this one!

@"rschroeder"Thanks for the feedback! I agree in principle about the general security of the lower SHA securities, but in this particular application, the devices in question are designed to commuinicate with connected and even autonomous vehicles, so securing them on their local networks is paramount. And since these…

I don't want to rub salt in anyone's wounds, but on top of being an extremely false and misleading article, given recent developments, this is also some real r/agedlikemilk material.

We must break down the silos that have traditionally prevented the prompt and proactive exchange of intelligence about potential and urgent threats. Our industry must also look to our partners in government for their considerable expertise and broad resources in addressing the cybersecurity threat faced by U.S.-based firms…

@"undesired_result"The question I'm referring to is for August 11, which is regarding interfaces sending NetFlow data to the online demo.

I think the Sysadmin will eventually become simply the gatekeeper for Internet-connected enterprise services like file management, collaboration tools, etc. as those things all slowly move out of the corporate datacenter and into the cloud. However, not so simply, the ability to monitor and maintain visibility of those…

Got the same result - did not choose the offending answer but still got it wrong

I thought exactly the same thing!

@"undesired_result"no problem! but yeah, I counted them and put in the correct answer... not sure why it's wrong

Kind of ironic that Simplisafe is the grand prize for a Mission Month centered around cybersecurity! SimpliSafe’s home security system can be compromised by a $2 wireless emitter - The Verge Always take The Verge with a grain of salt, but people seem to think about hardware vulnerabilities a lot less often than software…

That's definitely true; I didn't say impossible to defend against, I said impossible to completely mitigate. Nation-state APTs have countless resources at their disposal for trying to get into target systems, and I agree that simple vigilance would have prevented at least this method of attack. I'm just acknowledging that…

To anyone reading this thread, @"KMSigma.SWI" answered my question in a different thread: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NPM-Discussions/SUNBURST-version-numbers-for-DLL-s/m-p/612648/highlight/true#M150798 When the hotfixes are available, stop all Orion services and you can delete all copies of that file. A new,…

@"nedriano" Ha to be perfectly honest, it's been so long that I'm not sure. But, looking at the VMware-Appliance-for-FAH-Deployment-Steps PDF, it appears that you need to set the root password during setup in the OVA import process. If you're importing to ESXi instead of vSphere (like I was at the time), you'll need to…

Thanks for this -- the updated information wasn't available in the advisory when I posted. However, this statement is extremely misleading: Additionally, we recommend customers scan their environment for the affected file: SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll. If you locate this .dll, you should immediately upgrade to…

So did we -- I'm hoping SW provides more details so we can better assess our position...

I also really need to know this.

I've honestly been thinking this same question recently, so I'm glad to see someone ask the community and I'm interested to see the other responses. So far I'm seeing multiple (accurate) affirmations that nation-state attacks are almost impossible to fully mitigate against. This is true, but to be honest it's not my…

For anyone else reading this and asking the same question, I did a bit of digging on my own. According to the Palo Alto article, the DLL file in question is located on any Orion server running IIS web services. It's located under C:\inetpub\SolarWinds\bin and has four command-and-control API parameters added to it that the…

Thanks for the input! I'll relay this info to our system architect and see what other bottlenecks could be causing this problem. Much appreciated!

@"the_ben_keen" I mean, you can install FAH on just about any distro, I imagine you could just use spin up an OS container and install their .deb package https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/installation-guides/linux/manual-installation-advanced/

@"cnorborg"Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the lack of description -- here are some more details * I was mistaken about our HA configuration. Spoke to our system architect, we have our AWS's in load balancing configuration but there are no other redundancies in place. * There is only one incoming ISP connection, the…

I was already set up for regular gaming and occasional working from home, so transition into full-time pajamas was a cinch!

Nice! This is a great project to jump on, thanks for the recommendation! For anyone with a homelab running ESXi or vSphere, they also have an .ova VM deployment package for a prebuilt version of folding@home running Photon. https://flings.vmware.com/vmware-appliance-for-folding-home