Re: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
Could not agree more. I just added a switch in our server room and nearly had a stroke trying to figure out which Cat 5 went where! (Think spaghetti.)
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I'm not a huge fan of 'start at layer 1'. Reason being is that I'm generally at my desk when I take a call. I start at layer 3 and ping the device. Depending on success or failure of that operation I...
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Yeah, just yesterday I had a situation occur where someone had either not labeled the port config correctly or the cables weren't seeded where they were meant to be. The rest of the week will be spent...
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We've found that weekly meetings within our Network group help. It gives us a chance to get together and discuss what each member of the group is working on for the week. This way we can support each...
View ArticleRe: What kind of Alerts are you creating?
While I'm also curious as to what sort of real-world feedback you might get from other participants, I wrote a blog post last August that talks to this question, or at least to the fundamental concept...
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Some of the stuff we alert onResponse (ping no response after 5-10 minutes)disk space useHardware failuressome application failures and warnings100% ram use for extended times
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Re: OnPage for SolarWinds
Or you could just send the email as an SMS to your cell phone How to send email to a phone « SMS 411 and then set up a different text message sound for the contact/sender's address.
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How many Component Monitors are required for 2 instances of Oracle Database ?
View ArticleNPM, NTA, IPAM, SAM, NCM, VOIP, NTM Project
Hi All, i have a project with all the above products and i am planning and preparing the statement of work for all products, any one have ideas??? or any template may help me??? your participation is...
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Re: how to enable snmp in linux?
The best way is to edit your snmpd.conf file - not sure where it is on your server but try /etc/snmp/snmd.conf) this one use v2c readonly to any thing that can get to the server over UDP 161 (you need...
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that is why we dropped ITIL, nice ideas often poorly implemented just like ISO9000 and CMM
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we had hired a "engineer" to assume the role of a facility manager.I was doubtful of her skills/ability/knowledge from day one and let management know may concerns. The management response was , "give...
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i was setting up a military exercise many years ago. My nice Major(not all officers respect civilians) asked if he could help never looking a gift horse in the mouth i said YES!, "can you please get...
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I had a CCIE come into our group. He was useless,it turns out that he was excellent at memorizing and taking tests and had got his CCIE in only 9 months but had no practical skills, he could barely CLI...
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Re: Network Topology Horror Stories
My recent one was a "DC" consisting of two 6509's that handled core routing down to access layer. Once we implemented BPDUGuard on them we started getting calls - sometimes around the $300 Cisco...
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Re: I Don't See the Point of IPAM
We presently use the IPAM tool in the Engineer's Toolset and have it set to publish all subnets automatically to the web with a directory in the solarwinds web root. We then have a link in our menu...
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