Question about my future career goals
Right now, I work for a managed service provider. My official title is 'Network Technician', but I don't really consider myself a network tech. I do fix the occasional network issue, but for the most...
View ArticleIs it just me or are "off the shelf" drives more stable?
I'm using both home-brew and HP-based solutions. I've never had any of my "consumer"-grade drives fail before. However, my HP drives fail quite regularly. This is both for 7,2k s-ata and 15k SAS. The...
View Articlehome directory for system users?
I was just discussing what the best practice is for home directories of system/daemon users on a linux system (in this case the user for GNUbatch). I usually use "/", my colleague uses the directory...
View ArticleTypical Day and What are some of the pro's and cons of being a system admin?...
Can you describe a typical day as a system administrator. What are your hours like and how many hours do you work a day? Do you have down time during the day or is it non stop work. Are you constantly...
View ArticleWhat does everyone use for IPAM? (IP Address Management)
Just wondering what you guys (and girls) use for IPAM. There hasn't been too good of management (access databases and excel spreadsheets) in the past, but I've been handed most of the responsibility...
View ArticleWhy do so many in IT see licensing as something to ignore?
I've worked in organizations large and small, including managed service providers, and I often come across admins and even managers who seem to hold to the idea that licensing is just a PITA tidbit...
View ArticleTrying to decide if I should be using SSDs in my new production servers. What...
This past week I watched this video advocating the use of SSDs in servers based on their price per-gig per-iop. The idea being that maybe two SSDs in a RAID1 could outperform a significantly larger...
View ArticleBest windows backup (to a network share) solution? WDYT, reddit?
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View ArticleShould I worry about "typecasting?"
I've been with an IT consulting company for three years now. I started with virtually no experience in this field and moved up to a "Network Analyst" position. Due to the diversity of our clients, I...
View ArticleIs anyone else sick and tired of hearing about "Cloud" everything?
Interesting how every cloud service results in a never-ending revenue stream for the provider. submitted by kronso [link] [27 comments]
View Articleuptime.exe crashing on Windows Server 2008
I have been using this tool for a while in Windows Server 2003 machines and had no problems, but it's different story on 2008. Can anyone get uptime.exe to run with /p: switch on a Windows Server 2008...
View ArticleSystem Center 2012 - Upgrade Questions
Has anyone upgraded from 2007 R3 to 2012? I have not had a chance to test 2012 and was looking for some general thoughts on the product, improvements, headaches, etc... Once it is no longer in beta if...
View ArticleSCCM Client Install Issues
I have had SCCM 2007 R3 installed and deployed for about two weeks now and the console is reporting that about half of my 2008 R2 Systems, Server 2008 systems, and Server 2003 are showing that the...
View ArticleMigration from Samba&OpenLDAP to MS Active Directory
I know that migration usually goes the other way around. I was wondering if anyone has some experience with this. What are some possible pitfalls and what is the best way to do it without much pain....
View ArticleBackup mail server advice?
Our mail server is an offsite hosting company which sends it's mail to our server at work which runs exchange, dns, dhcp, ad, sharepoint. (I didn't set this up) Boss wants a secondary server, ideally...
View ArticleResource check. What do you hit daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly?
I've got some random ones, but I think we all have a few secret spots worth sharing. Throw 'em in the melting pot for everyone's betterment!!@!%#@% http://workinghardinit.wordpress.com/...
View ArticleNot one single working backup for 4800 hosting clients? Really?
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View Articledoes this make anyone else happy?
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View ArticleRequest: I'm an IT Manager with a 50K budget that includes my salary. The...
Thanks in advance! Things I am responsible for: 1) Database management & CRM modules 2) Mail 3) Docs 4) Invoices and Books (Accounting software) 5) Support 6) Application development and Source...
View ArticleSNMPtrap of a ASA 5500
I've taken all of the dependent SNMPv2 MIB-files for an ASA 5500 from cisco's FTP-site but there are still entries in there that don't translate. Specifically OIDs .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.2...
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