Re: Custom Maps using network atlas
A) Great answer, Andy McBride and B) the username networknoob is beyond amazing. -- Steven "MrXinu" KlassenHosted Web Help Desk Engineer | Loop1 Systems, Inc.http://www.loop1systems.com/
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CAn you pls post some SQL code samples, I would to do the same
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I don't believe that any "ModBus" MIBs exist as they would a contradiction in terms. ModBus is communication protocol that is used to access ethernet connected devices (similar in function to SNMP,...
View ArticleConfig Management Has You Covered- Or Does It?
When you invest in a network configuration manager, you’re also committing to a process that’s easy to ignore at times. Yes, you can make the tool push templates for mass changes, take config backups,...
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Failover and disaster recovery scenarios are always important things to practice. If you've got a high availability service and you've got redundancy on redundancy to the point where it would take a...
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You got that right, Acy- on all accounts. Is amazing that for so many admins, the mantra is "we back everything up, so we're good" but the restore process is either murky or non-existent. It's worse...
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A good audit process will go a long way to ensure that processes are functioning correctly. Part of that audit process can include actual restore functionality testing as well as disaster recovery...
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Completely agree. Backups need to be tested periodically. I remember some years ago the exchange server failed. And of course the backups were no good either. Luckily I had manually backed up the...
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I personally think that there is a natural "out of sight, out of mind" aspect to the whole backup thing. So easy to look past during the rigors of the day. I can't imagine the sheer volume of backup...
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We often joke around here that backups are the easy part, it's the restores that people struggle with; unfortunately this is all too true. Like I always try and point out, a tool is only 20% of a...
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Very much agree with you there. I've seen backup solutions with crazy network ACLs that would allow a server to be backed up; but the system could not push a restore... Imagine finding that out at 2am...
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We perform BiWeekly/Monthly/Quarterly testing of our equipment by causing the failure ourselves. These are done as unannounced drills to test not only the equipment but personnel as well. These drills...
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We use NCM to backup weekly, after changes and before any maintenance to devices. I have had to use an NCM backup config to manually restore a core switch after a failure. I have not however restored...
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We are in the process of getting our NCM configured so it will be useful for our NOC. This is something that we discuss in my department and will implement some mechanism for redundancy when we have...
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We upgraded from Kiwi Cattools to NCM for our network equipment, mostly for the integration into Orion and to get the real-time config changes. I still maintain Cattools for nightly backups. I like...
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Hi, NCM stores the downloaded configs by default to config archive, too (not only to DB) -- this is nothing more than a directory structure on the disk. (By defult in NCM installation directory but you...
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I agree. Under Jobs in the full NCM client, there are quite a few pre-defined jobs, including a nightly backup. It is scheduled to back up all nodes by default, but the job can be completely...
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Hello Guys, I'm trying to install the Solar winds applications below App : Network Performance Monitor – SL 500NetFlow Traffic Analyzer – SL 500IP Address Manager - IP 4000Network Config Manager – DL...
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Good to know! It sounds like I need to find time to dig into this more. I forget about the full client and tend to only work with the web console.
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For reasons unknown to me, I continue to see our company's budget allowing more money to be allocated to various other departments, and less money being allocated for our "mission critical" systems....
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