[SPAM] FW: RE: The logs could do with a courtesy flush

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Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

dragonshardz posted:

Inkjets are the absolute worst. For most people, who don't print a lot, a simple B&W laserjet will last them ages before the starting toner cartridge gets low.

I've told my parents that I will only help them with printer problems so long as they don't buy cheap poo poo inkjet MFPs. It's kept them in line, they have a Brother multifunction that Just Works�.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 23:54

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 09:14

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Nerdrock posted:

Same thing happens here, but for building access badge changes.

"Yeah I need my badge to open &School"
"We need an email from the building principal or the director of Food Services (if you work for food services)"
"Can't I just email you?"
"no."

I had a several day back-and-forth with sales about re-enabling the account for somebody where every single message they sent us just got a reply of "HR needs to send us a ticket about this."

# ¿ Jan 4, 2018 18:50

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

DigitalMocking posted:

If it's anything like systems I've seen, there's no way to force a user to reset the VM password.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2018 02:33

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Marcade posted:

Not a ticket, but someone may find this amusing. I received a text last night from my 63 y/o mother, stating "Young people know how to find these crazy things called GIFs. Graphics Interchange Format. Look them up on the internet. You'll find some funny ones." ...I just sat with my head in my hands for a bit after that.

I mean, she's not wrong.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2018 22:28

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Jaded Burnout posted:

I have a persistent memory of selling a car and the guy typed google into his address bar which searched google for google, clicked it, then searched "yahoo", then clicked the result, then searched for the thing he was looking for. I was aghast.

HOLY poo poo THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PERSON WHO HAS DONE THIS?!

# ¿ Jan 11, 2018 18:43

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Renaissance Robot posted:

A ticket came in to the War Thunder thread:

The mouse action in both of these gifs is the most verisimilitude I've seen in media for a long time.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 15:38

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Judge Schnoopy posted:

oh hey that's a cool forums feature, automatically protecting passwords!

hunter2

EDIT: Wait it's not stars for me.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2018 22:21

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

The Iron Rose posted:

at a certain point I don't understand why enterprises don't use password managers.

The one we use in my company is literally free aghhhhhh

E: I know that the answer is "lol government IT" but still

The answer is "It's too complicated I can't learn all of this computer stuff!"

# ¿ Jan 18, 2018 22:27

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Jaded Burnout posted:

why are you posting metal gear characters in this thread

Metal...Gear?!

# ¿ Jan 22, 2018 22:10

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Johnny Aztec posted:

Huh, all this time I thought it was a public school.

Not sure if it being private makes all this better or worse.

I always assumed it was a charter school from the massive amount of mismanagement that was going on.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 22:01

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

spog posted:

I bet the number the customer gave was a cell phone.

My mother recently forwarded some article to everybody in the family about how you shouldn't keep your cell phone in a pocket because or radiation etc. I pointed out that I didn't really want to carry around a lead-lined container for my phone, especially since my parents get mad when I don't answer their calls. The article also implied that the radiation from the cell towers get "shot at" your phone when you use it as if there are a jillion little monodirectional antennae pointing at people when they use their phones.

All of this also ignores that I live in New York City, so even if I threw my phone into the river I'm surrounded by them and probably breathing more dangerous poo poo in 24/7.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2018 16:59

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

stevewm posted:

AV is just a shitshow waiting to happen that we are required to install to tick a box. Nothing more.

One could argue you are a more secure these days without it then with.

I want an AV system that is literally just an agent that downloads an update full of whatever signatures it needs and then does nothing with them, but with a robust system to prove it's all up to date. Tick that box and let me get on with my life.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2018 17:14

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

If I wanted to make an ostentatiously shielded conference room I would 10000000% copy the floating acoustically-dampened room from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2018 22:36

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Thanks Ants posted:

And furnish it the same

That's implied. Also you have to wear a very smart suit if you have a meeting there, British accents preferred.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2018 01:31

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axsqWbxZJGc

That ad is my only experience with Nextel and I love them because of it.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2018 19:39

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Dick Trauma posted:

The old dead firewall is still racked because I can't be bothered to unplug a bunch of poo poo to remove it.

This happened to me at a client site. Our only window for disruptive repairs was like, 30 minutes before they opened and the rack was such a shitshow I couldn't redo the wiring and test the network in one go.

When I left that employer, the client had a fully configured but untested Cisco switch in their rack, with nothing plugged into it and everything still running over an old/failing HP switch.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2018 18:46

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Proteus Jones posted:

NOOOO!!!!

You monster!

The real monster is Luke Skywalker's father, Darth Vader.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 02:03

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Crowley posted:

The best thing about Guinness is that when you see a Guinness sign outside a pub, chances are they serve Double Diamonds or Kilkenny too.

I'm so loving mad that Kilkenny is nearly impossible to find in the US.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 23:08

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Bigass Moth posted:

Now you understand capitalism vs. socialism.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2018 18:48

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Monolith. posted:

No I'm pretty sure they're right on that one.

Yes, the CEO keeping all of the money working extra creates is definitely socialism in action.

(Did I read the quoted post backwards or something? Every lazy argument against socialism is predicated on "But nobody will want to do anything!")

# ¿ Mar 1, 2018 19:08

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Got some last-minute new hire notifications I meant to take care of after our company-wide Town Hall meeting today. But it turns out our company is getting bought so things were a little more exciting than usual so I totally forgot about them.

It's time like this that your Powershell scripts turn into more than just resume fodder :toot:

Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Mar 13, 2018

# ¿ Mar 13, 2018 00:14

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

Edit: The only good DrDisrespect videos are the ones where he's slowly melting down because people are trolling him with honking horns in cars.

gently caress yes. It was even better because one of those videos where he's raging super hard about the dude honking is funnier than he has ever been on purpose.

You hear the thing getting closer, then farther as they dial it in, then louder louder louder louder until it flies off the cliff above them, hits the beach and explodes.

I honestly don't really hate the guy since I never watch any Twitch streams and I felt like that whole thing with him cheating on his wife was bizarrely handled because people made it seem like Twitch should have sanctioned him for it or something? I dunno, game streaming is still a bizarre fandom to me.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2018 17:15

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Alberta's team in the Brier only had 4 guys, surely you could get in on that action as the 5th or coach.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2018 21:48

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Antioch posted:

I'll probably lose my citizenship for this, but curling's not a real sport.

Neither is bowling. Doesn't mean it's not fun.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2018 04:48

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Proteus Jones posted:

THIS IS GOOD FOR BITCOIN, BECAUSE...

FREE SPEACH

# ¿ Mar 21, 2018 14:36

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

So we're giving Zabbix another shot and everything is going waaaaaay better than last time (probably because our scope is different and we're pretty much only using snmp for everything) but now I've been asked to come up with the "Default dashboard" for the instance and I'm just kind of staring blankly at the one that comes out of the box and I'm not even sure what I need to have.

Anybody else using Zabbix got any insider tips or lessons they wished they knew from the get-go?

EDIT: We're on 3.4 if that matters.

Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Mar 22, 2018

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 17:32

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

stevewm posted:

Group everything appropriately.

I prefer to keep the main dashboard pretty simple. Just the "last 20 issues" and "System Status" sections. If there are any triggers, they appear in the Last 20 issues section, I can then click on the alert and check into it more if needed. I don't bother keeping graphs on the screen; instead I make sure the triggers are set so if something starts to go above/below threshold it throws an alert.

90% of what I monitor are Windows and Linux servers. The Zabbix Agent is used for that purpose. SNMP is used for our routers. I utilize the standard Windows Server template and also some add-on templates for Microsoft SQL, and Active Directory. I also made a custom template for our Windows CCTV servers that watches the status of the various Windows Services that support that function.

For our routers I monitor availability (ping), CPU usage, and the status of the secondary WAN connection. A trigger fires if bytes/sec goes over a certain level. I use this as a indicator the router has switched over to the secondary WAN.

Alright, seems pretty in line with how I've been doing it so far.

One thing though, is that I can't get the entries where there are no errors to show 0 and turn green. I dunno if that's something they just did in 3.4 vs the older versions, but it would be nice to have.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 19:29

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

Curling: The only Olympic sport where the silver medalists all look like various dads out drinking.

Really the opposite this year.

Silver:

Gold: (

)

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 20:52

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

So the setup of Zabbix continues and I just spent all afternoon elbow deep in SNMP and...I kind of get it now? I made templates for our copier and rack AC unit that loving work and I am unreasonably proud of that.

I even think I can get this setup so that it will automatically order new toner carts when one runs out which would fuckin' own.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 23:19

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Then set up a Slack webhook so it will tell you on its own when stuff goes down overnight.

I'm going to setup the e-mail alerting system next week. I have Slack set to DND mode on weekends and after hours.

But yeah, that's the easy part since Zabbix has that all built in.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 20:47

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Inspector_666 posted:

So the setup of Zabbix continues and I just spent all afternoon elbow deep in SNMP and...I kind of get it now? I made templates for our copier and rack AC unit that loving work and I am unreasonably proud of that.

I even think I can get this setup so that it will automatically order new toner carts when one runs out which would fuckin' own.

And I got Grafana setup and everything using LDAP auth and this is all making me feel dangerously competent. Somebody embarrass me about basic IT knowledge, quick!

# ¿ Mar 28, 2018 01:52

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Ghostlight posted:

Did you do it using a service account or a global admin login?

Service account with no admin rights :cmon:

# ¿ Mar 28, 2018 15:27

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

SolusLunes posted:

Heh, I work with one of those guys on Team 'Murica. He's a chill dude. And got a reserved parking spot right next to the door because he's a gold medalist. (all the executives still park closer because of course they do)

My jealousy knows no bounds.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 03:24

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

sloshmonger posted:

You posted this about 10 minutes ago. In that time, you should have googled creating an ACLs with powershell, and started writing the script. You should be done in about 20 minutes. Remember to give some sort of administrative access to the folder level, at least at first, so you have access to delete your first bad attempt.

What are you going to do with your two month vacation?

Real talk is the only way to do ACLs in Powershell by creating new objects? I feel like MS could make that whole process so much smoother (just like how it handles distinguished names for AD stuff.)

# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 01:53

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

I think a couple other goons use Manage Engine Desktop Central, but have any of you tried to migrate the server it's installed on?

I tried this weekend, following the steps as laid out on their website exactly, and it very much did not work. I'm thinking of trying to just modify the VM it's on rather than moving it, but we have to move it to a newer AD domain which would entail the FQDN changing and seems like we would need to do some of the migratory work anyway...

# ¿ Apr 8, 2018 01:08

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Westworld is back and let us use this show to remember it could always be worse.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2018 03:57

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

I had to expand the OS drive on the Ubuntu VM that runs our Zabbix server today, which was harrowing, but I snapshotted the thing before doing the work (which ended up coming in handy) and then immediately deleted the snapshot when it came back up and showed the right info thanks to the amount of reading this thread I do.

Thanks Goons!

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:06

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Kurieg posted:

I'm still using my old workhorse of a WRT45G, but do modern routers let you access the dashboard from a wireless connection? That seems like a fairly large security hole.

They pretty much all do, but they also usually come with WPA2 applied to the wifi out of the box now.

# ¿ May 23, 2018 15:05

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Also didn't the WRT let you do that too?

Also also jesus how the gently caress are you still using a WRT?

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 09:14

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Javid posted:

I almost considered one because I wanted to play with the various aftermarket firmwares available for them, but I wanted N/AC speeds and 5ghz more.

Yeah, my shock is more at living with G and 10/100 speeds in this age of STREAM EVERYTHING rather than shock that it's still running. Those things were tanks.

# ¿ May 23, 2018 15:23

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