Who has certifications? College?
Where I come from there isn't much outside of Vo-Tech that teaches you anything about computers, networks, etc. So I'm curious how many of you sysadmins have degrees, what they are, and if you...
View ArticleIdeas for new projects
I'm stagnating. I'm sick of my job but I have to be here for 3 years. I've made several other posts about it. This one is about making lemonade out of awful, bitter, shit covered lemons. What are some...
View ArticleAny thoughts on F5 Big IP LTM load balancer versus Citrix Netscaler?
We're considering budgeting to purchase a load balancer next year and are trying to decide between a F5 Big IP LTM or a Citrix NetScaler. We're just going to load balance a small Exchange 2010...
View ArticleReverse DNS PTR question
We're switching ISPs at one of our offices. This particular office houses our mail server. We have a static IP from AT&T and we have a new static IP from Comcast for that mail server. Currently,...
View ArticleThat depends... how many points do I get?
An email I received: Hi Jonamerica, We will not need the projector for the Monday board meetings, but we will need it for Tuesday. We will begin the Tuesday meetings earlier than normal – at 8:30 AM...
View ArticleGoogle Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers - NYTimes.com
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View ArticleTaking on more workload?
I support a small office (35 people) that is part of a much larger company. I am the IT guy that helps out everyone with their issues and also monitors the network (wireless access points, one file...
View ArticleWindows Hardening Check Script
Hey Reddit! So at my job, I've been tasked with creating some scripts that will be ran on various Windows Systems, Ranging from XP, Windows 7, Server 2003, Server 2008. Each with the various Editions,...
View ArticleWebfilter Suggestions?
I work for a school district and we are currently using Websense for our filtering. However, I hate it and every few weeks it shits itself usually requiring me to waste half a day on the phone with...
View ArticleTell me Nagios gets easier...
OK, it's day two of attempting to get Nagios up and running on Ubuntu server 11.04. I've figure out how to set up basic hosts, and I'm now attempting to get services up and running. Please, please tell...
View ArticleLoad Balancing Appliance?
Do any of you have recommendations to a load balancing appliance? One that could do networking load balancing, such as we have two proxys and we would like traffic to flow through both, instead of one...
View ArticleSBS 2008 is now blind to the gateway
Ah good times, who wanted to go home early on a Friday.... not this little black duck. I can not ping the gateway at a clients office, the gateway is not on the arp table. The SBS08 machines does...
View ArticleNagios Question(remote server related) Part 2!
So I got a remote server being actively monitored thanks to your help before, but now I want to switch it over to passive monitoring. I have passive check for CPU working but the status information...
View ArticleCan anyone ID this tool?
I used it once and can't remember anything about it other than how it worked. Maybe someone else has used one. It's just a basic tone generator to trace Ethernet cables. What was unique about it was...
View ArticleCentos based LiveDVD to update firmware on Dell servers
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View ArticleThank you r/sysadmin
I just want to say thanks to the members of this subreddit. I don't have many friends in the IT field, so I have no one to talk to about my job and what it entails. It's nice to come here and see...
View ArticleFAST daily productivity logging
What is the fastest for me to log the things I do on a daily basis? Most of my big tasks are in the forms of tickets, but over the course of a week I probably do hundreds of different small tasks that...
View ArticleCentOS or Scientific Linux?
Just wondering which admins are choosing lately, CentOS or Scientific Linux? Any personal preference? submitted by rdmarsh [link] [18 comments]
View ArticleHow did I do explaining how to open ports in CSF firewall? Would love some...
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View Articleicli: command line interface to icinga/nagios
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