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Regardless of market share, if enough of the NPM user base request it then it should be supported. I've done my vote-up; we need more of the user-base to also vote-up this feature request as I'm sure there's more than 37 users (current vote as of this writing) that would like this feature.

I was thinking "written like a workstation user". Like Bronx's point, the appropriate user has to be able to use. If the Windows Server versions were included I would put NT 3.51 as the most stable and best, regardless of what the desktop looked like. That was my experience in previous lives as a server admin. Once the…

I've got a company-issued iPhone. It stays locked in my desk unless I'm investigating AnyConnect/Jabber issues

We monitor the response time to our load balancer which only uses a ping response to verify if the pool members are up. After that we throw it over to the web team to ask why their servers are responding slowly. Since there has been no actual effort expended in actually monitoring the web service (i.e. getting a valid…

First time I'm out of the running on day 1. I'm wondering if this one is currently sensitive to capitalization. I answered with a capital.

Cisco documentation, or Google search of Cisco documentation, will provide the needed info.

Whether auto-created from an email or created by a help-desk person receiving an email, I've seen numerous instances where the ticket contains something that the user thought was important (but really wasn't) and nothing that is truly relevant. In both cases I think the root issue is that there is no interview process to…

Has anyone gotten the Response Time Viewer to install on a non-x64 platform?

Having issue with question 10 at the moment: "This survey is not accepting additional responses at this time. Thank You!"

If this tells you anything, that first credit is "Some D*****bags film". A couple others are "A hot chick" and "A gratuitous cameo". Pour a drink, send the kids out of the room (and maybe the next), sit back, and prepare to laugh.

I've never heard of anything like an RTS document outside of a catastrophic DR/BC scenario. I like this idea of putting a link in the alert or even just within the monitored object's properties. May have to steal this idea.....

Looking good now. Thanks.

The combination of NPM and NCM has helped me quite a bit with all the config management points mentioned above. NPM's sonar discovery has identified devices that I didn't know were there, often before our project group makes operations support aware of them. The only issue I've had with discovery is when the new, or…

My current employer is migrating to Cisco Nexus switches as our core and distribution in our facilities. As described by that1guy15 our data centers use Nexus 2K's as the top-of-rack switch, controlled by a Nexus 5K. We also have a number of VMware/ESX/UCS clusters. However we're not realy looking at any SDN as I would…

Great info that I wish I had a few lifetimes ago.

Looks like my points from the 8th didn't register either. Following 2 days do appear to have been added.

Until we brought NPM into our environment we didn't even have a way to measure uptime, so there was no talk of any amount of 9's. We do try to design in HA in all our sites: dual uplinks from access switches to distribution, dual supervisors, dual distribution switches with spanning-tree and HSRP priorities set to balance…

What's the problem? Today's question and the hint used the same terminology, or at least they do where I found the answer.

Not to mention the constant care and feeding. I've seen too many IDS/IPS deployments where the customer made the assumption that it is a set-and-forget product.

Extending the analogies even further, systems management can be compared to both cooking and baking. The differences between cooking and baking as explained to me by a research biologist (who is also a great cook and baker) is that cooking is simply combining ingredients to produce something that is edible, while baking…

I'm definitely jaded: the only thing I can think of when reading this post title is "apply percussive maintenance to user".

That's because you're just paying attention to the woman in the red dress.

I agree that monitoring and alerting should be centralized, but keeping the tools and data restricted to that central group is what causes the other groups to procure their own solutions and duplicate the data. Making other groups aware that data exists, and providing access to that data, may help prevent sprawl and…

Some Notepad action was required: make sure you get all the text from "PowerShell" through "&win_script.bat", and merge all that into a single line. There was alot of whitespace that had to be removed as well.

Thanks.

The answer is actually head-slappingly easy to find. You don't have to look far and are probably overlooking it

I have a need for this very fuction right now. The use case is that I have devices that have learned a route with an incorrect length (i.e. a /13 route rather than a /12). I need to find which nodes have this in their routing table so I can clear it and stop those devices from advertising it. I would like to be able to…

Thank you.

Looks like what we were missing is the conversion of the $alertobjid from the single integer value to the array $ids[0]. Once that line was added to our script then we were able to run it without any error. After that we found that we had to use the alertobjectid rather than the alertid. One other thing not mentioned above…

That differs from our symptoms. Restart of services does restart the polling. But as I mentioned before, we end up rebooting the server to get the services restarted.