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Crossposting here... we have two Cisco ASA firewalls that aren't doing anything right now, I wanna replace them with any two routers that can do Gigabit Dual or Quad WAN. I have two ISPs I want to balance on one of the routers and have the second router for failover. That way one of the ISPs or one of the routers could fail and we'd still be up. Do any of you run something like that in production? There's a lot of brands and huge differences in price, it's tough to figure out my best bet. We're at 250 users and scaling up to ~500, and our ISPs are both ~100mbit up/down.
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Do you just need to configure failover? Sonicwalls can do multi-WAN with failover and also be setup for HA.
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Zero VGS posted:Crossposting here... we have two Cisco ASA firewalls that aren't doing anything right now, I wanna replace them with any two routers that can do Gigabit Dual or Quad WAN. I have two ISPs I want to balance on one of the routers and have the second router for failover. That way one of the ISPs or one of the routers could fail and we'd still be up.
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I have a job interview tomorrow. I wasn't looking (yet) but I was talking to my mom over Thanksgiving and one of her friends is a higher up (not making hiring decisions, but supposedly good friends with who does) at this place and there was a job posting that I was pretty well qualified for (as far as the bullet points go). Pay was supposedly $75k. So of course I immediately applied. She's supposed to put in a good word for me and at least get me an interview, which is about all you can ask from someone. A few weeks pass with no call and finally I hear back: they gave the job to someone internally, but there's another job opening up and the hiring manager really liked my resume and wants me to apply for that one. They call me for an interview like the next day. So it's tomorrow. I make poo poo at my current job, but I think it will be a lateral move (it sounds help desk-y but that's not what the job title was in the post, so maybe like a "desktop support"). Is it crazy to not really be interested unless the compensation is much better than I'm currently getting? I'm "in line" for a promotion here but so far it's 100% talk. Supposedly ill hear something after the new year (I don't doubt that they're waiting to do anything until then, we're in retail, they don't want to do anything at all until after Christmas but sell poo poo) but I understand it's nothing yet until there's an actual offer. Or even discussion. But even still, I like my job ok, like the people I work with, it's fun seeing new stuff. I could go to this new place and hate it. Of course it's also kinda pointless to speculate like this until I actually have the interview. They may think I'm a bad fit. I might do bad in the interview. I don't want to burn bridges/miss an opportunity at my current job.. But I also don't want to miss out on something that could be better. I guess I said a lot of words for advice that's going to amount to "see what they say in the interview and go from there"
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Misogynist posted:Palo Alto. Palo Alto. Palo Alto.
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myron cope posted:I have a job interview tomorrow. I wasn't looking (yet) but I was talking to my mom over Thanksgiving and one of her friends is a higher up (not making hiring decisions, but supposedly good friends with who does) at this place and there was a job posting that I was pretty well qualified for (as far as the bullet points go). Pay was supposedly $75k. So of course I immediately applied. She's supposed to put in a good word for me and at least get me an interview, which is about all you can ask from someone. A few weeks pass with no call and finally I hear back: they gave the job to someone internally, but there's another job opening up and the hiring manager really liked my resume and wants me to apply for that one. They call me for an interview like the next day. So it's tomorrow. I was in a sorta similar situation. Was working a desktop support job, started looking elsewhere after starting down the MS cert track because I hated desktop support. Got hired into an MSP - basically similar work but a lot more money, better culture. Other similar MSP roles came across but I didn't give two craps since they were a lateral salary move - a step down, given that they were in NYC and I'm in Jersey, and commuting costs factor in. If nothing else it was a better place to gun down my certs and aim for a better role. I was in line for a promotion with them for a long time, mostly because my certs kept their MS partnership status active. When I got promoted it was basically "Okay, you can do deskside support now and here's $10k more, lol @ getting a non-helpdesk/deskside job here" Go with what you've got in writing. If the compensation and responsibilities are a step up at this other place, give it thought. See what the interview does. They may like you and ask for a number. Google up some salary negotiation stuff in advance - it's been done to death in this thread, and it's free to try. If that place doesn't pan out, keep hunting until the signature's on the promotion and the paychecks clear the bank.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Thankfully this hasn't been a problem I've had to deal with, but due to a manager being arrested, I'm now wondering how other IT departments plan for what to do if you accidentally discover extremely illegal stuff on a computer. My first inkling that my last job was not a place I wanted to be was when my manager told me in no uncertain terms to just quietly delete it and say nothing, as reporting it to the police "would harm the company's reputation".
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myron cope posted:I have a job interview tomorrow. /snip How exactly is interviewing at another place "burning bridges" at your current job? You have a personal appointment.  That's literally all you have to, or should, say. Do always interview. At the very least, you're keeping your interview skills sharp and providing the hiring manager and yourself some information about what the current job market is like. (Seriously, I had an old boss tell me to interview for jobs even if I wasn't planning on taking the job.) There's a wordy description of why several pages back but 
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I just got denied a pretty big promotion/being hired on full time due to admission to criminal behavior back from my college days on a polygraph. lol self ownage. gently caress the police
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SaltLick posted:I just got denied a pretty big promotion/being hired on full time due to admission to criminal behavior back from my college days on a polygraph. lol self ownage. gently caress the police Protected industry? sue hard. http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/eppa.htm#who%23who
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psydude posted:Isolate the problem machine and immediately cut off all access to it and from it. Also be prepared to implement DR operations, because if it's housing child porn or something that violates RICO, they'll seize everything it's touched and you'll never get it back. Absolutely. That's the second thing you do after immediately calling the police. If you have an internal Info Sec group, they'll usually coordinate all the internal incident handling. There's a ton of little things that need to be done to preserve state for when the police/FBI show up. But expect them to seize everything that could be peripherally related, so start spinning up the DR plan immediately, even if you do end up standing down. You'll look like a god drat hero when the transition is a matter of hours at most if they do get overzealous in the investigation. We had an issue like that when I was in the global security group for a previous employer. Fortunately we had a process in place for that. The local security team manager was freaking a little bit, but we calmed him down and had building security keep the suspected user away from his computer. We had networking kill his network ports, and had someone from the desktop team stand watch with another person from building security to make sure no one powered it down to preserve memory state for the investigators. It's rare, but in a global organization it happened more than you'd think. CP is no joke. If you are unsure of what your process is, find out. If your company doesn't have one, suggest that one be developed. Pray you'll never have to use it, but have it so you can maintain the integrity of the evidence.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Protected industry? sue hard. http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/eppa.htm#who%23who It's working for the police so it's standard practice unfortunately. The thing is that while the results of the test cannot be used against you, the questionnaire you fill out prior is more or less a written confession can be.
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Polygraphs can't be used against you because they're pseudoscience bullshit.
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Thats true they can't use that I failed a section against me but they can use the stuff i wrote down saying "I stole this in such and such year"
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meanieface posted:How exactly is interviewing at another place "burning bridges" at your current job? You have a personal appointment. No the interviewing part isn't (I'm off tomorrow anyway) but leaving may be when I'm supposedly going to be this supervisor at my current job. But then again, I've been hearing this since like October so I won't be too upset if the offer is right. I'm just worried that they'll end up like $10k above where I'm at now, which would make it a tough decision. I'm mostly worried about the HR questions. I hate those type of questions. I don't even really have an answer if they ask why I'm interested in a new job. I think I just overthink the questions.
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myron cope posted:I'm mostly worried about the HR questions. I hate those type of questions. I don't even really have an answer if they ask why I'm interested in a new job. I think I just overthink the questions. That's an easy one. "It was time for me to move on." "I wanted to branch out." "I felt like I had reached the limit of what I could accomplish there." Pick any kind of vague, say-nothing statement and gun it for all it's worth. Don't let on that you know you're not saying anything substantive either; own it.
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flosofl posted:Absolutely. That's the second thing you do after immediately calling the police. If you have an internal Info Sec group, they'll usually coordinate all the internal incident handling. There's a ton of little things that need to be done to preserve state for when the police/FBI show up. But expect them to seize everything that could be peripherally related, so start spinning up the DR plan immediately, even if you do end up standing down. You'll look like a god drat hero when the transition is a matter of hours at most if they do get overzealous in the investigation. we actually have forensic investigators to deal with this. We double teamed the guy, escorted him off site whilst someone else got his PC pretty much like you said. we have physically separate networks, the snr admin decide he was too lazy to admin one of the smaller networks so he gave a software trainer who was 'into IT' domain admin rights because he couldnt be bothered to look after it the guy proceeded to try and use cain and abel to get mine and my bosses passwords to try and use on our corporate network i think the lucky thing for snr admin is when i discovered and called in the guys to deal with all this my boss was on leave & that he is soft or he would have been out the door i think
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flosofl posted:But expect them to seize everything that could be peripherally related, so start spinning up the DR plan immediately, even if you do end up standing down. You'll look like a god drat hero when the transition is a matter of hours at most if they do get overzealous in the investigation. Can you expand on this? Are they grabbing SANs? What about servers and switches and firewalls that don't store anything anyway? Do they even know what it is they're taking?
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Erwin posted:Can you expand on this? Are they grabbing SANs? What about servers and switches and firewalls that don't store anything anyway? Do they even know what it is they're taking? Of course, if the employee has been using the SAN to store his/her/its kiddie porn, then YMMV. I doubt you'll see law enforcement taking switches, firewalls, etc, unless we're talking a company-wide operation.
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vibur posted:I doubt you'll see law enforcement taking switches, firewalls, etc, unless we're talking a company-wide operation. In a situation like that, I'd just start working on my resume. Screw that poo poo.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I've never done scrum and I'm guessing that it rarely gets implemented properly but since you're the only person who showed up on time, I'd say you're already done. Scrum is wonderful when implemented properly. The team I work alongside uses it to figure out problem areas and reassigns manpower as needed. You hit things before they become a problem and its dreamy
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myron cope posted:No the interviewing part isn't (I'm off tomorrow anyway) but leaving may be when I'm supposedly going to be this supervisor at my current job. But then again, I've been hearing this since like October so I won't be too upset if the offer is right. Promises don't mean poo poo until there is paperwork to back it. A lot of places will use promises, hints, and not-so-subtle 'you will get this position in the future' to keep people working hard for something they are not obligated to ever do. I may sound bitter, but it has happened to me at two different places, and I won't let it happen again.
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Erwin posted:Can you expand on this? Are they grabbing SANs? What about servers and switches and firewalls that don't store anything anyway? Do they even know what it is they're taking?
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adorai posted:They aren't going to seize your SAN. What they might do is ask you to prevent writes to it until they can complete their investigation, which could require you to fail over to your DR site, depending on the specifics of your organization. I would snapshot and clone it and more or less build a new environment for it just like i would for test. Ok, this is what I was looking for. I'm not worried that it's going to happen, but I'm in the process of rewriting all sorts of policies and wasn't sure why the failover was recommended. Sounds like a set of snapshots and a clone like you said is best, but I might throw a failover in the procedure just in case.
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Along the lines of: IT professionals really shouldn't be paying for certs to learn things they're using in their day-to-day jobs, how would you go about finding the price of Official MS certs (class+test or finding some online learning resource + test) and giving your boss a good reasoning for why you need this? She'll take it up to ask for the funds if I can give her a good reason, but since we just went public everyone's super stingy with  so help with 'why I need this' other than me ranting incoherently about how I'm sucking at my job because there are things I should know and don't + help tracking down how to actually do this since no one here has real MS certs either would be phenomenal. (My team lead wants them too, so I figure if I can get the info and reasoning together we can make this happen.)Goon Santa, help me figure out how to start working on my MCSE - BI flavor.
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I'm not aware of any official Microsoft Training but it'd be through numerous vendors. As far as convincing your boss, this can be tough.
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angry armadillo posted:we actually have forensic investigators to deal with this. We double teamed the guy, escorted him off site whilst someone else got his PC pretty much like you said. How'd you figure out he was gunning for your passwords?
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Also healthcare IT here. Lots of "fun" these past couple of weeks. Today, just migrated an AIX LPAR off a 770 frame to some shiny new Power 8 S824 hardware via NIM mksysb backup\restore. Really wanted that experience on the resume, only had done it on paper and in my own test environment prior. Schweet. 3 more to go. That actually was fun. Last week the storage guys were bombarded with issues and gave me access to the brocade switches and some other info for me to try to get the zoning to work. Was my first time ever touching storage so was on Google a lot.  We got it working after way too much fuckery, some lovely incompatibility with the ancient brocade firmware we're on and 4gbit gbics and my brand new 8gbit HBAs. The WWN popped up after we replaced them with 8gb gbics. So much for auto negotiation. That was "fun". Outside of my own little world with Power systems, BOE, RightFax, and a handful of random apps, the place is a complete cluster-gently caress after my boss left. His leaving was just a result of the cluster-fuckery, not a cause. For whatever reason we're buying up hospitals and practices left and right because they can't afford to stand by themselves. No one up the food chain is really thinking about licensing costs or staffing. Just blinded by economies of scale which don't always apply to healthcare or IT. One cardiology site we bought, their PACS system hasn't been touched in 6 years. Several dead hard drives(but all raid-1 redundant pairs), no backups(the NAS set up by a consultant years ago was balancing on some cardboard boxes and came unplugged). I know poo poo all about PACS, other than a bit about DICOM and modality push\pull. They didn't even feel like paying their maintenance contract so the entire environment is unsupported by anyone, even the vendor they bought the software from.  And then people give me sideways glances when I ask for money to fix it. Either money, or find someone who knows that PACS system and can migrate to one of the other ones we own. I totally see the entire industry collapsing on itself in <15 years, with a few mega-conglomarate healthcare systems that are "too big to fail", buried in debt because 1+1 > 2 when you're talking about migrating something from small-medium business to enterprise grade anything. SSH IT ZOMBIE fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Dec 23, 2014 |
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adorai posted:They aren't going to seize your SAN. What they might do is ask you to prevent writes to it until they can complete their investigation, which could require you to fail over to your DR site, depending on the specifics of your organization. I would snapshot and clone it and more or less build a new environment for it just like i would for test. Right, what I meant by being seizing is wanting to grab a forensic image of anything the suspect may have touched. That would necessitate removing access to whatever it is they want until they've pulled an image. Sometimes they may request a copy of the backups and logs as well. I was only directly involved in the one investigation, and it was rather benign (as benign as investigating that filth can be) and not very disrupting to operations. The person in question did not have access to network resources beyond their network home directory, a team network share and the computer on their desk. We basically had a brief blip in file access as it failed over to the redundant site. However, can you imagine the impact an investigation into someone who was a systems or network administrator? That's why you need to make sure you have a process in place to deal with worst case events. angry armadillo posted:we actually have forensic investigators to deal with this. Yeah we had forensics guys, but management made the call that in this particular case they wanted no question regarding the chain of custody. They wanted this guy to burn and didn't want us to be to blame if there was a mis-step.
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What did you think healthcare reform bills were? If anything other than a structure to ensure healthcare industry bailouts as boomers expire you got duped. E: Anyone here work in BI/Data Vis/Analyst or would want to? Might have an opening shortly. MJBuddy fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Dec 23, 2014 |
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MJBuddy posted:What did you think healthcare reform bills were? If anything other than a structure to ensure healthcare industry bailouts as boomers expire you got duped.  Maybe earlier than expiring. You got me thinking now. I used to joke about how Sprint spun-off Clearwire to build it's 4g infrastructure. Clearwire was spending way more money than it was bringing in, and nonsensically expanding. I was joking that Sprint was going to let them go bankrupt, and buy them back for pennies on the dollar. Then it actually happened. What if collapsing the healthcare industry is a way to pay for baby boomer pace care? Some 10 years into the future; "We done hosed up, sorry." QE 5 or 6 comes out, bam all this free money to cover the costs of care that Medicare and Medicaid don't actually cover and wipe other slates clean. No extra taxes, no problem.
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Hughmoris posted:How'd you figure out he was gunning for your passwords? Heh - he came to my office and asked me a really weird question to do with AD The answer was duh look in AD (can't remember exactly what he asked) For some reason we had roaming profiles so I decided the best way to stop him bothering me it would be nice to put an AD shortcut on his desktop... There I saw a shortcut to Cain & Abel ... Didn't know what it was at the time so I ran it and there was my password in plain text (cue alarm bells!) Interestingly there was one day prior to this I got a call from the department he worked in... A PC had lost the network and it appeared to be a patching problem- weird I've not been to that cab for a while... Went up there and it's a pain to get to, not only is it in the roof but you have to climb through pipes to get access to it - as I'm clambering over I'm pretty sure I woke this dude up, he'd obviously changed some patching then decided to have a nap before actually moving the PCs (or whatever he was weird!) Anyway, fast forward after he got fired and all the rest of it and I need to go to this cab for a job... I find a notebook which I didn't recognise, once again mine (and my bosses) password written in there. Mental! We also found print outs of things like how to get elevated cmd access. Glad I found it when I did and also glad our 'proper' network is pretty secure (along with this guy being pretty bad I guess)
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Tab8715 posted:I'm not aware of any official Microsoft Training but it'd be through numerous vendors. I was hoping someone knew of one online that was pretty decent for taking the courses. Getting time off work to physically go to class == hahahahaha no. I'm not too worried about convincing my boss.
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meanieface posted:I was hoping someone knew of one online that was pretty decent for taking the courses. Getting time off work to physically go to class == hahahahaha no. A while back I went through the MCITP self-paced training books, and you can sign up for the exams at a whole bunch of testing centres - even my rural area has one not too far. I'm not sure if they're any more up to date than Win7/Server 2008R2 though, and self-paced books always have their own issues.
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I think Paramount and Sony need to get together and get some rehab for whatever condition causes them to churn out disappointing movies for franchises that should be money printing powerhouses.
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meanieface posted:I was hoping someone knew of one online that was pretty decent for taking the courses. Getting time off work to physically go to class == hahahahaha no. It also depends on who you work when it comes to training. Bigger orgs tend to have less a problem because they have the money for training. They also get that there's more to just reading a technical manual. A few thousand is nothing when you're pulling in millions too. I've been going back and forth with my boss for months for IBM i training and finally got him to cave last week which has more or less consisted of me showing him holes in my primary's knowledge and pulling out "Do you want me to be good at my job or great at my job?"
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:A while back I went through the MCITP self-paced training books, and you can sign up for the exams at a whole bunch of testing centres - even my rural area has one not too far. I'm not sure if they're any more up to date than Win7/Server 2008R2 though, and self-paced books always have their own issues. I'm wanting the SQL 2012 stuff, there's no 2014 tests out yet. Plan is to spend a bit each morning working on it before people come in with their hair on fire; if I try to do this at home on my own time, it's never going to happen. Kids + unpaid OT. Tab8715 posted:It also depends on who you work when it comes to training. Bigger orgs tend to have less a problem because they have the money for training. They also get that there's more to just reading a technical manual. A few thousand is nothing when you're pulling in millions too. OOOOH I am so going to use that phrase, she will LOVE it. I love my boss lady. Thanks goon!
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I've never done scrum and I'm guessing that it rarely gets implemented properly but since you're the only person who showed up on time, I'd say you're already done. The first agile shop I ever worked at was also the best one. The entire company operated on the same 2 weeks sprint schedule complete with kanban and a daily stand up. Sprint planning was heavenly. Everyone was on the same page and project deliveries were incredibly smooth. I miss that.
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