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One of my projects is closing in on completion and management is getting a tad nervous. A couple of the requirements were to have a PBX setup, but apparently the security folks failed to do some due diligence and had no idea what version is approved, so they looked up the latest version of it and everything else and said that's what we need. One little problem - we're using RHEL7, and they want the most recent version of Docker and Firefox, Postgresql, Asterisk and several other applications. Management was a bit taken back in the meeting when I asked them if they wanted Fedora as the OS or RedHat. I had to explain that RHEL7 doesn't use the most current release version of applications and packages, and while I could kludge together something to get the latest packages, it might also cause some issues with broken dependencies and such. Customer is pushing for the current releases of applications and packages but still wants RedHat. I reiterated that they could have what RedHat considers the current version of applications and packages, or what is current for Fedora, but not both without quite a bit of work and no guarantee that something wouldn't break. Management and the customer are still going round about it, and I was supposed to have everything done yesterday without knowing what they really want. It's going to be fun on Monday when I have to report in the sprint that my block is management and the customers getting their heads out of their asses.
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Question for thread, Has Dell - the company - done anything particularly revolutionary, great or even good in the last decade? Outside of buying Pivotal.
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Feb 2, 2019 22:20
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That's a big question. I like their monitors, and the VRTX was quite a neat concept when the approach to branch offices was having local VMware deployments in them. I don't think their position as an assembler of other people's creations really tends towards them ever 'inventing' anything.
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Daylen Drazzi posted:One of my projects is closing in on completion and management is getting a tad nervous. A couple of the requirements were to have a PBX setup, but apparently the security folks failed to do some due diligence and had no idea what version is approved, so they looked up the latest version of it and everything else and said that's what we need. One little problem - we're using RHEL7, and they want the most recent version of Docker and Firefox, Postgresql, Asterisk and several other applications. Docker, Postgres, and asterisk all have their own repositories that work on RHEL. I am sure Firefox does as well. Anything else? Run in a docker container.
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Feb 2, 2019 23:48
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I'm coming to a close on a project that deploys proprietary software to server endpoints in an automated fashion, and configures the settings for a specific event. I programmed the backend in Powershell/Python, and C# . I house event specific configurations and variables in a Microsoft SQL DB, and our operations team updates the DB with the variables for an event with a PowerAPP. Management is very pleased with this as the setup was prone to error, by Data Center operations staff, and the software life-cycle has these installers updated Every week. So I had to program a bunch of scripts that grab the Installer for the specific Event taking place. On a weekly basis this software is deployed to anywhere between 25 and upwards of 100 Servers every week, and these servers are split into different use cases for sub-events. The automation will even power up the DR VMware machines and install/configure them, and shut them down again. All deployment updates are output to a teams channel. The worst part was making it play well with an automation console written in loving Perl. But it's done, and deploying without failure. My next project? Remove Solarwinds from our environment, and find a better solution that can monitor SNMP, and ICMP in as close to real time as possible. I've been looking at Nagios, but if anyone has any recommendations as far as great monitoring for Applications, custom pollers, and SNMP custom OIDs I am all ears. Modulo16 fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Feb 3, 2019 |
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Feb 3, 2019 00:56
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Nagios is considered less then desirable and we are killing an installation of it at my current job because we think it’s trash and have better options. I personally like sensu because it’s a drop in replacement for nagios.
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Feb 3, 2019 02:06
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freeasinbeer posted:Nagios is considered less then desirable and we are killing an installation of it at my current job because we think it’s trash and have better options. All monitoring options are poo poo. All of them. Just pick the poo poo you want to put up with.
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Feb 3, 2019 02:19
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Tab8715 posted:Question for thread, I like my XPS13 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Feb 3, 2019 03:02
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freeasinbeer posted:Nagios is considered less then desirable and we are killing an installation of it at my current job because we think it’s trash and have better options. Not really a dropin, but Sensu is ok if you have a monitoring guy or commitment to do a decent amount of scripting/customization. Icinga's ok; check_mk is a little... German. Prometheus is pretty good for time-series data.
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Feb 3, 2019 03:08
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PCjr sidecar posted:Not really a dropin, but Sensu is ok if you have a monitoring guy or commitment to do a decent amount of scripting/customization. Icinga's ok; check_mk is a little... German. Prometheus is pretty fuckin dope.
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Feb 3, 2019 03:11
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I don't enjoy the syntax of Alert Manager at all, but at least for collecting, storing, and serving metrics Prometheus is cool and good. It helps that more and more software is either natively exposing metrics for scraping or has open source plugins readily available. For example our devs have been upgrading Java apps to Spring Boot 2, and we suddenly get a whole ton of JVM metrics "for free" now that had to be polled via obnoxious JMX incantations previously.
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Feb 3, 2019 03:25
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I'm still using an IP Sentry installation first set up around a decade ago 
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Feb 3, 2019 04:25
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Logic Monitor is cool and good
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Feb 3, 2019 04:39
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Tab8715 posted:Question for thread, VMware? And going private again jaegerx fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Feb 3, 2019 |
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Feb 3, 2019 05:01
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Daylen Drazzi posted:One of my projects is closing in on completion and management is getting a tad nervous. A couple of the requirements were to have a PBX setup, but apparently the security folks failed to do some due diligence and had no idea what version is approved, so they looked up the latest version of it and everything else and said that's what we need. One little problem - we're using RHEL7, and they want the most recent version of Docker and Firefox, Postgresql, Asterisk and several other applications. Also you’re hosed
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Feb 3, 2019 05:06
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Ask this earlier, but this thread moves pretty quick so it got buried: What are some remote jobs a guy with 5 years of NOC experience (3 of the tier 2) and a CCNA could steer towards? I want to get a feel for what certs I should start studying for and what skills I can pick up, Lord knows I have more than enough free time at my current job to study/improve myself with.
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Feb 3, 2019 07:09
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Where do you want it to go?
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Feb 3, 2019 07:18
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jaegerx posted:Where do you want it to go? That's what I'm trying to figure out here. There's so much in IT that I find fascinating and would love to get into, I don't see myself not liking anything except maybe programming/coding as I'm not very creative.
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Feb 3, 2019 07:41
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The Fool posted:Put your New-PSSession's in your profile, use Enter-PSSession/Exit-PSSession switch between them. Look at this easymode scrub whose environment lets them use sessions. :sob: PSSession would make my life so much loving easier.
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Feb 3, 2019 07:44
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Umbreon posted:That's what I'm trying to figure out here. There's so much in IT that I find fascinating and would love to get into, I don't see myself not liking anything except maybe programming/coding as I'm not very creative. Go read methanar posts. Then clam downs. Then that dick guy. Pick 1 of the 3.
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Feb 3, 2019 07:48
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Tab8715 posted:Question for thread, Their firmware management is less painful than most manufacturers.
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Feb 3, 2019 07:53
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Umbreon posted:Ask this earlier, but this thread moves pretty quick so it got buried: I don’t have the link handy but a posting came across my Twitter feed for a customer support role at Heroku supporting customers in the EMEA region. So that might be a thing for you to look into.
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Feb 3, 2019 17:20
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Docjowles posted:I don’t have the link handy but a posting came across my Twitter feed for a customer support role at Heroku supporting customers in the EMEA region. So that might be a thing for you to look into. https://www.heroku.com/careers Checked their page and hot drat, these guys sound like a dream to work for, and I love explaining things to customers and helping them understand technical things. I don't have any web development background/experience, but I almost feel like it's worth teaching myself just for a chance at a job like this. Definitely something I could look forward to coming to work for everyday
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jaegerx posted:VMware? They bought them and RSA too but outside of that I kind that they’re just kind of of meh?
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Umbreon posted:https://www.heroku.com/careers Customer support is such an uphill fight to me. Incredibly stressful and not very rewarding IMO. I like building things and working on projects. Heroku does sound like a good workplace though.
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Feb 3, 2019 21:31
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Heroku is awesome. They really seem to understand distributed teams.
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I am having a hard time today translating something I can explain easily with my mouth into a PowerPoint presentation. Some stupid middle manager on a steering committee wants a hard number on how many wireless clients our access points can handle on the corporate SSID. It's real easy to say a hard number doesnt exist because we cant predict traffic load on our guest and BYOD SSIDs but turning it into management speak is killing me this morning.
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Put together a few theoretical scenarios based on estimated loads, maybe? Condolences though, exec speak is a tough once to get down.
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Feb 4, 2019 15:32
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Make a rising graphic, shade one part green other part yellow other red, attribute client numbers to those areas, done It's not exactly hard numbers but you give him numbers and tell him to try to stay in the green Same same, but different
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That's essentially what I'm going to do since I have that data from our Ixia veriwave, but it's not what they will be happy with
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Dig deeper to find the real question. Do you have one AP in an exec boardroom or conference area? Are they asking how many devices can connect in one super important area they care about before their VIP guests notice? Include how many devices can connect per AP, then give examples of a few important exec areas and how many APs are there. 'Conference Room B can handle 40 guest wifi devices' is a better answer than "across our entire landscape we can probably handle 400 devices if everybody spreads out".
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Dig deeper to find the real question. Do you have one AP in an exec boardroom or conference area? Are they asking how many devices can connect in one super important area they care about before their VIP guests notice? From the way he worded the post it seems like it's overall in all the building, with the same ssid. Although I wouldn't be surprised if it was a completely different issue, business people find ways to mess up very simple requests.
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We have some servers in a colo specially to meet the needs of one of our customers. The colo patches the windows servers as part of our deal with them (inked well before my time and manditory). The production servers each have a team internally at my company that "owns" them and some of servers are reboot suppressed. They are this way because they are important and the app "owners" want to give the client a smaller outage window instead of a large one as part of the sccm patching. Fine. The issue is that the "owners" aren't actually rebooting their drat servers at all. Not scheduling outage windows , not rebooting them, not doing a drat thing. I am looking at servers that haven't been rebooted in well over a year. First I am mad that my infrastructure folks aren't keeping an eye on compliance as the basics are easy to keep an eye on. I am also mad my infosec team isn't keeping an eye on compliance. I am upset that my app owners are lazy fuckwads. I have heard every excuse from these app teams... We didn't know this was a thing!!! (its clearly scheduled and discussed every cab meeting) We don't know what patches are being deployed!!! (the colo sends them well ahead of time) Nobody is communicating these aren't being done!!! (Did you as a leader just admit you aren't checking on your employees?) This is why you never let devs handle infrastructure on any level.
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Sickening posted:We have some servers in a colo specially to meet the needs of one of our customers. The colo patches the windows servers as part of our deal with them (inked well before my time and manditory). The production servers each have a team internally at my company that "owns" them and some of servers are reboot suppressed. They are this way because they are important and the app "owners" want to give the client a smaller outage window instead of a large one as part of the sccm patching. Turn it around, reboot them next maintenance window and pick one of the responses below: “I didn’t know they weren’t to be rebooted” “You didn’t mention that they couldn’t be rebooted THIS particular time” “You’re a security liability to the company” “Somebody must have hacked your server and rebooted it BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T loving PATCH THEM FOR A YEAR YOU MORON”.
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e: holy poo poo wrong IT thread lol
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orange sky posted:From the way he worded the post it seems like it's overall in all the building, with the same ssid. Although I wouldn't be surprised if it was a completely different issue, business people find ways to mess up very simple requests. A steering committee wanted to go "wireless workplace" for years and now wants a hard number to pin on engineering in case all of the laptops deployed dont work efficiently on wireless. I have explained countless times to various teams that our floors need increased AP density to support it but it's a political problem since someone a long time ago called our existing design high density but its "one AP per 5k sq ft" so engineering management dances around the topic. The whole thing is stupid. It's a company of 60k employees so it's very political and involves hundreds of offices.
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I applied for an internal move last week, I think I've mentioned I've passed the HR sift so with any joy, the ad closes tomorrow and I'm hopefully I might get an invitation to interview late this week... It involves relocating, I was in the new location last Friday so I took the opportunity to chat to the hiring manager which was good. Whilst I was there, my current boss reveals that another site lost their IT manager to secondment - a senior manager made an HR faux pas in terms of temporary promoting one of the engineers there so he is stepping in and making me the official line manager until he can sort all the mess out. I said what happens if I get this other job and he says he basically hopes to have sorted it before that happens - so I'm taking that as maybe a good sign that a hiring manager has indicated they are interested in pinching me I don't like waiting ha
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What's my best shot for a cheap and easy home lab similar to an Intel NUC but I need 48-64GB of RAM? EDIT - And not the cloud.
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We keep getting calls from upper management asking for an explanation on our unusually high call queues this morning. I don't know how many variations of "we're really understaffed today and it's also a Monday" we can come up with. There was a fairly large sporting event that took place yesterday evening, if you recall... 
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Tab8715 posted:What's my best shot for a cheap and easy home lab similar to an Intel NUC but I need 48-64GB of RAM? The last time I looked into something similar I think the best bet was a 'used' workstation-class desktop. Bonus is that you can get a ton of memory and a Xeon CPU. Swap in for an SSD and you're good. Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Preci...e46b7:rk:4:pf:0
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