Re: Using audits positively
I have tried to implement a monthly review of my firewall rules, my own internal audit. In my reply to the rule creep post I talked about the importance of documentation. This subject has come up again...
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We typically audit when in the process of general network redesigns, which seems to happen at least on a yearly basis. We are spurred to review more frequently on an informal basis because of the...
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First, I'd like to say that this is a great discussion and an important one at that so thank you Jeremy for starting it. It's funny that I'm just stumbling on this thread because this week I am...
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Re: Finding unmanaged Switches and Hubs on the LAN
Hi Jon - It depends on your access switches (and also how "aggressive" your management want you to be ) but a combination of BPDUguard and mac address limiting can be very effecting at dealing with...
View ArticleHP jet direct card stats through the roof!!!
I have a printer that showing huge stats. The printer is printing fine but is this send stuff out over my network or is this an incorrect stat to do with solarwinds? Receive is sitting at 525955% and...
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Hey, what did the interface speed of that Jetdirect card report as when polled? You should be able to see it on the interface details page.
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Thanks John! I will definitely give this a shot. Jon
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Re: HP jet direct card stats through the roof!!!
Administrative Status Up Operational Status Up Last Status Change...
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Ok, there you go...SNMP polled the configured interface speed, etc. as a ridiculously low 28 bps. That's bits per second.Just edit the interface and change the Interface BW field to match the speed of...
View ArticleChange-defined transformation
Changes is ever evolving. It is consistent What I have noticed with IT is the pace of change. We go through periods of explosive and rampant growth. At other times we slow down to a crawl yet one...
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I think one thing I am noticing is social media, YouTube and forums. While Facebook used to be the home of Farmville, Mafia Wars and My Aquarium and a great place to share pictures, political rants or...
View ArticleRe: How do you set the Operating System value on the node display
The "Operating System" field under Node Details is sourced from Nodes.iosversion in the SolarWinds database. It seems that after NPM polls a network element for sysdescr, NPM then parses the returned...
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I actually think that the network industry in general (and firewalls specifically) are going through a radical change right now and we are very likely going to come out the other end 5 or 10 years from...
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Certainly, people just see the pain of doing things but don't pause a minute to think about the benefits. Imagine the looks I get from my team, when I request to increase the scope of audit or add more...
View ArticleHardware Monitoring - IBM X3650 M2 - Array alerts
I'm monitoring hardware on an IBM X3650 M2 that is showing critical hardware status on the array. When I expand the array, the underlying logical disk and controller are shown as green and optimal....
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Anthony Burke wrote: Changes is ever evolving. It is consistent What I have noticed with IT is the pace of change. We go through periods of explosive and rampant growth. At other times we slow down to...
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i think that social media is changing super fast especially when you think about when myspace and facebook first jumped onto the scene. both sites used to be a place for pictures and games now its just...
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One of the obvious ones that is one of the hot topics in man forums these days is Big Data. Both the volume and velocity of data are significantly increasing creating more demand for back-end systems...
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Change is the reason that I am in this profession. The biggest change that I've been working with is virtualization. Not just server virtualization, but desktop virtualization. We have nearly 1500...
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Change is driven by necessity and competition. I hold a certain level of envy for those parts of the world who's needs are not driven by competing medias.
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